Contemplative Studies Initiative and Concentration

Videos

An archive of videos from Contemplative Studies lectures since 2017.

Videos

An archive of videos from Contemplative Studies lectures since 2017.

Contemplative Studies’ Commencement 2023

Dr. Sarah Shaw

XXth Annual Mary Interlandi '05 Memorial Lecture

Prof. Michael Yellow Bird

The Power of Ceremony: Indigenous Contemplative Practices, Neurodecolonization, and Indigenous Mindfulness

Kumu Ramsay Taum

Indigenous Alliances and Mobilizations Moving Policies and Practices Seeking Justice and Sustainability Across the Pacific: From Root to Fruit, Remembering the Future

Kumu Ramsay Taum

Cultivating Vital Energy in Hawaiian Wisdom Traditions of Martial (Lua) and Healing (Ho'oponopono) Arts

Professor Hiro Saito

Sociological Imagination, Contemplative Practice and Social Change

Nitin Mitta, Matthew Rahaim, Suhail Yusuf Khan

Vocal and Sarangi Recital

Judith Simmer-Brown

XIXth Annual Mary Interlandi '05 Memorial Lecture

Sarah Mattice

Exploring the Heart Sutra as a Chinese Text

Bret Davis

Language and Experience in Zen and the Kyoto School

Sienna Craig

Care, Belonging, and Attunement Stories: Himalayan Lives Between Nepal and New York

Alumni Reunion 2021

Contemplative Studies Virtual Commencement 2021

Rhonda Magee

Change 'Gonna Come: Contemplating Identity-Based Suffering in a Time of Social Transformation

Professor Srinivas Reddy

Concert: The Contemplative Music of South Asia

Professor David Palmer

Out of Ontological Bounds: Researching Qi during China’s Qigong Craze

Dr. Eric Garland

Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement Heals Opioid Misuse and Chronic Pain by Restructuring Reward: From Hedonic Pleasure to Self-Transcendent Meaning

Professor Christopher Ives

Japanese Zen and Ethics: Historical Patterns and Popular Misconceptions

Professor Heiner Fruhauf, Ph.D, LAc

A Brief History of Qi: From Ancient Cosmology to Modern Medical Practice

Professors Rhonda Magee and Ram Mahalingam

COST Summer Seminar: Contemplation and Social Action - Part 2

Professors Oliver Hill and Carolyn Jacobs

COST Summer Seminar: Contemplation and Social Action - Part 1

Prof. Oliver Hill

Meditation Led by Prof. Oliver Hill

Mallika Chopra

Living with Intent: An Evening with Mallika Chopra

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan

Sufi Teachings of Hazrat Inayat-Khan

Professor Daniel Hirshberg

The Rhetoric of Secularism in Contemplative Pedagogy

Contemplative Studies Diploma Ceremony

Professor Andrew Meyer

Judaism, Confucianism and Modernity in Ming China

Professor Srinivas Reddy

Sitar Concert

Dr. Reverend Masaki Matsubara

The Contemporary Training of a Zen Buddhist Monk

Professor Mark Singleton

Continuity, Innovation and Power in Modern Yoga's Transformations

Professor James Mallinson

Tantric Traditions and Hathayoga

Reverend Dr. Takafumi Kawakami

Self-Cultivation and the Difference Between Reality and Actuality

Gaelle Desbordes, Ph.D.

Neuroscience as a Modern Context for Studying Meditation: How Far are We Really?

Professor Srinivas Reddy

Sitar Recital

Professor Charles Hallisey

Buddhist Spirituality and the Contemplation of Nature Through Poetry

Lama Rod Owens

Introduction to the Tantric Practice of Taking Tara as the Path

Professor Srinivas Reddy with Ajit Acharya and Matt Becker

Summer Sitar and Tabla Recital

Reverend Shunmyo Masuno

The Art and Philosophy of Zen Garden Design

Contemplative Studies Commencement Ceremony

Professor Srinivas Reddy

Contemplative Music of South Asia: Sitar and Tabla Recital

Professor Douglas Christie

The Deep, Insurmountable Darkness of Love

Professor José Cabezón

Buddhist Sexual Ethics: The Ancient Textual Tradition and its Modern Relevance

Reverend Dr. Takafumi Kawakami

Bringing Zen into the 21st Century: One Zen Priest's Perspective

Professors Elijah Siegler, David Palmer and Louis Komjathy (Respondent)

The Dao of the Scholar/Practitioner: Academic Scholarship and the Construction of Daoist Authority in China and the West

Professor Romain Graziani

The Obvious and the Oblivious: On the Psychology of Action in Early Chinese Texts and Beyond

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Genine Lentine, Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison

Contemplative Poetry at Brown

Dr. Judson Brewer

The Craving Mind

Professor Renee Hill

Blind Cave Worms and the Meaning of Life

Prof. Oliver Hill

Non-Judgement and Social Action - Contemplative Practice in Pursuit of Justice