OliverUv · June 24, 2014 22:06 · Jun 24, 2014
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+Matthieu Ricard, talks about happiness, why he started
+meditating, and the mental attitude one adopts while meditating:
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_30JzRGDHI
+
+Jon-Kabat Zinn, creator of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
+(MBSR) program used in therapy and for meditation research. First
+he talks (quite non-scientifically) about meditation, then has a
+long nice guided meditation. The guided meditation is very good:
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc
+
+Sara Lazar, neuroscience researcher at Harvard Medical,
+short TED-talk about the effects of MBSR on the brain:
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8rRzTtP7Tc
+
+Gil Fronsdal, Buddhist teacher, gives an introduction to mindfulness.
+Each lecture is about 40min theory and 20min guided meditation. For one
+week, every day, do the meditation exercise by yourself. Then listen to
+the next talk in the series: http://audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/