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

XXth Annual Mary Interlandi '05 Memorial Lecture

Dr. Sarah Shaw

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

Prof. Michael Yellow Bird

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

Kumu Ramsay Taum

Sociological Imagination, Contemplative Practice and Social Change

Professor Hiro Saito

Vocal and Sarangi Recital

Nitin Mitta, Matthew Rahaim, Suhail Yusuf Khan

XIXth Annual Mary Interlandi '05 Memorial Lecture

Judith Simmer-Brown

Exploring the Heart Sutra as a Chinese Text

Sarah Mattice

Language and Experience in Zen and the Kyoto School

Bret Davis

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

Sienna Craig

Alumni Reunion 2021

Contemplative Studies Virtual Commencement 2021

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

Rhonda Magee

Concert: The Contemplative Music of South Asia

Professor Srinivas Reddy

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

Professor David Palmer

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

Dr. Eric Garland

Japanese Zen and Ethics: Historical Patterns and Popular Misconceptions

Professor Christopher Ives

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

Professor Heiner Fruhauf, Ph.D, LAc

COST Summer Seminar: Contemplation and Social Action - Part 2

Professors Rhonda Magee and Ram Mahalingam

COST Summer Seminar: Contemplation and Social Action - Part 1

Professors Oliver Hill and Carolyn Jacobs

Meditation Led by Prof. Oliver Hill

Prof. Oliver Hill

Living with Intent: An Evening with Mallika Chopra

Mallika Chopra

Sufi Teachings of Hazrat Inayat-Khan

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan

The Rhetoric of Secularism in Contemplative Pedagogy

Professor Daniel Hirshberg

Contemplative Studies Diploma Ceremony

Judaism, Confucianism and Modernity in Ming China

Professor Andrew Meyer

Sitar Concert

Professor Srinivas Reddy

The Contemporary Training of a Zen Buddhist Monk

Dr. Reverend Masaki Matsubara

Continuity, Innovation and Power in Modern Yoga's Transformations

Professor Mark Singleton

Tantric Traditions and Hathayoga

Professor James Mallinson

Self-Cultivation and the Difference Between Reality and Actuality

Reverend Dr. Takafumi Kawakami

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

Gaelle Desbordes, Ph.D.

Sitar Recital

Professor Srinivas Reddy

Buddhist Spirituality and the Contemplation of Nature Through Poetry

Professor Charles Hallisey

Introduction to the Tantric Practice of Taking Tara as the Path

Lama Rod Owens

Summer Sitar and Tabla Recital

Professor Srinivas Reddy with Ajit Acharya and Matt Becker

The Art and Philosophy of Zen Garden Design

Reverend Shunmyo Masuno

Contemplative Studies Commencement Ceremony

Contemplative Music of South Asia: Sitar and Tabla Recital

Professor Srinivas Reddy

The Deep, Insurmountable Darkness of Love

Professor Douglas Christie

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

Professor José Cabezón

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

Reverend Dr. Takafumi Kawakami

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

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

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

Professor Romain Graziani

Contemplative Poetry at Brown

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Genine Lentine, Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison

The Craving Mind

Dr. Judson Brewer

Blind Cave Worms and the Meaning of Life

Professor Renee Hill

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

Prof. Oliver Hill