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This Library shares many of the core content offerings of the CCR, as well as the teachings and influences that have shaped our mission and leaders. To browse, select a content type area, or navigate to “All Resources” to filter by theme, type, or domain area. If you are looking for something specific, use our “Search” bar.

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Essays

Rich explanatory writings contextualizing the history, activities, and impact intentions of the CCR. To sort by theme or domain, navigate to the “All Resources” section.
A New Paradigm For Science And Religion In The Twenty-First Century
A New Paradigm for Science and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
B. Alan Wallace
A Path Of Irreversible Transformation
A Path of Irreversible Transformation
B. Alan Wallace
Inter-Contemplative Dialogue And Research
Inter-Contemplative Dialogue and Research
Center For Contemplative Research
Overturning Eurocentrism In Education
Overturning Eurocentrism in Education
Vesna A. Wallace
Re-Envisioning The Good Life
Re-envisioning the Good Life
Center For Contemplative Research
The Great Perfection
The Great Perfection
B. Alan Wallace, Eva Natanya
A Telescope Pointed Toward The Sky
The Nature of Contemplative and Scientific Discoveries
B. Alan Wallace
The Sixfold Matrix Of Mental Balance
The Sixfold Matrix of Mental Balance
Center For Contemplative Research
What Is A Contemplative Research Observatory?
What is a Contemplative Research Observatory?
Center For Contemplative Research
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Journal Articles

Published journalistic writings and scientific articles by CCR founders and contributors. To sort by theme or domain, navigate to the “All Resources” section.

Featured Journal Articles

A Buddhist View Of Free Will: Beyond Determinism And Indeterminism
A Buddhist View of Free Will: Beyond Determinism and Indeterminism
B. Alan Wallace Journal of Consciousness Studies
A Mindful Balance
A Mindful Balance
B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Awakening To The Dream
Awakening to the Dream
B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
From Cognitive Science to a Science of Consciousness
B. Alan Wallace Interalia Magazine
Intensive Meditation Training Leads To Improvements In Perceptual Discrimination And Sustained Attention
Intensive Meditation Training Leads to Improvements in Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention
Katherine A. MacLean, Emilio Ferrer, Stephen Aichele, David A. Bridwell, Anthony P. Zanesco, Tonya L. Jacobs, Brandon G. King, Erika Rosenberg, Baljinder K. Sahdra, Phillip Shaver, B. Alan Wallace, George R. Mangun, Clifford D. Saron Psychological Science

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7-Year Follow-Up Shows Lasting Cognitive Gains From Meditation
7-Year Follow-Up Shows Lasting Cognitive Gains From Meditation
Andy Fell UC Davis
A Buddhist View Of Free Will: Beyond Determinism And Indeterminism
A Buddhist View of Free Will: Beyond Determinism and Indeterminism
B. Alan Wallace Journal of Consciousness Studies
A Computational Approach To Understanding The Longitudinal Changes In Cortical Activity Associated With Intensive Meditation Training
A computational approach to understanding the longitudinal changes in cortical activity associated with intensive meditation training
Manish Saggar, Stephen Aichele, Tonya L. Jacobs, Anthony P. Zanesco, David A. Bridwell, Katherine A. MacLean, Brandon G. King, Baljinder K. Sahdra, Erika Rosenberg, Phillip Shaver, Emilio Ferrer, B. Alan Wallace, George R. Mangun, Clifford D. Saron, Risto Miikkulainen Nineteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS 2010, San Antonio, TX, USA
A Contemplative View Of The Mind
A Contemplative View of the Mind
B. Alan Wallace A Contemplative View of the Mind
A Mindful Balance
A Mindful Balance
B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
A Week-Long Meditation Retreat Decouples Behavioral Measures Of The Alerting And Executive Attention Networks
A week-long meditation retreat decouples behavioral measures of the alerting and executive attention networks
James Elliott, B. Alan Wallace, Barry Giesbrecht Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Achieving Free Will: A Buddhist Perspective
Achieving Free Will: A Buddhist Perspective
B. Alan Wallace Mandala: A Tibetan Buddhist Journal
Anticipatory Sensitization To Repeated Stressors: The Role Of Initial Cortisol Reactivity And Meditation/Emotion Skills Training
Anticipatory sensitization to repeated stressors: The role of initial cortisol reactivity and meditation/emotion skills training
B. Alan Wallace, Bulent Turan, James F Cavanagh, Margaret Cullen, Erika Rosenberg, Patricia A Jennings, Paul Ekman, Margaret E. Kemeny Psychoneuroendocrinology
Awakening To The Dream
Awakening to the Dream
B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Buddhist And Psychological Perspectives On Emotions And Well-Being
Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives on Emotions and Well-Being
B. Alan Wallace, Paul Ekman, Richard J. Davidson, Matthieu Ricard Current Directions in Psychological Science
Cognitive Aging And Long-Term Maintenance Of Attentional Improvements Following Meditation Training
Cognitive Aging and Long-Term Maintenance of Attentional Improvements Following Meditation Training
Anthony P. Zanesco, Brandon G. King, Katherine A. MacLean, Clifford D. Saron Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
Computational Analysis Of Meditation [Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Texas At Austin]
Computational Analysis of Meditation [Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin]
Manish Saggar Institutional Repository at the University of Texas at Austin
Contemplative/Emotion Training Reduces Negative Emotional Behavior And Promotes Prosocial Responses
Contemplative/emotion training reduces negative emotional behavior and promotes prosocial responses
B. Alan Wallace, Margaret E. Kemeny, James F Cavanagh, Margaret Cullen, Janine Giese-Davis, Patricia A Jennings, Erika Rosenberg, Omri Gillath, Phillip Shaver, Paul Ekman Emotion
Creationism And Scientism: One Mindset, Two Belief Systems
Creationism and Scientism: One Mindset, Two Belief Systems
B. Alan Wallace Interalia Magazine
Deconstructing The Effects Of Concentration Meditation Practice On Interference Control: The Roles Of Controlled Attention And Inflammatory Activity
Deconstructing the effects of concentration meditation practice on interference control: The roles of controlled attention and inflammatory activity
Grant S. Shields, Alea C. Skwara, Brandon G. King, Anthony P. Zanesco, Firdaus S. Dhabhar, Clifford D. Saron Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
Distorted Visions Of Buddhism: Agnostic And Atheist
Distorted Visions of Buddhism: Agnostic and Atheist
B. Alan Wallace Mandala: A Tibetan Buddhist Journal
Effects Of A 9-Day Shamatha Buddhist Meditation Retreat On Attention, Mindfulness And Self-Compassion In Participants With A Broad Range Of Meditation Experience
Effects of a 9-Day Shamatha Buddhist Meditation Retreat on Attention, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion in Participants with a Broad Range of Meditation Experience
Elisa H. Kozasa, B. Alan Wallace, Shirley Lacerda, Carolina Menezes, João Radvany, Luiz Mello, João Ricardo Sato Mindfulness
Effects Of Mindful-Attention And Compassion Meditation Training On Amygdala Response To Emotional Stimuli In An Ordinary, Non-Meditative State
Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state
B. Alan Wallace, Gaëlle Desbordes, Lobsang T. Negi, Thaddeus Pace, Charles L. Raison, Eric L. Schwartz Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Enhanced Response Inhibition During Intensive Meditation Training Predicts Improvements In Self-Reported Adaptive Socioemotional Functioning
Enhanced response inhibition during intensive meditation training predicts improvements in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning
B. Alan Wallace, Baljinder K. Sahdra, Katherine A. MacLean, Emilio Ferrer, Phillip Shaver, Erika Rosenberg, Tonya L. Jacobs, Anthony P. Zanesco, Brandon G. King, Stephen Aichele, David A. Bridwell, George R. Mangun, Shiri Lavy, Clifford D. Saron Emotion
Exploring The Nature Of Consciousness
Exploring the Nature of Consciousness
B. Alan Wallace Interalia Magazine
Exploring The Nature Of Consciousness
Exploring the Nature of Consciousness
Mind in the Balance
Four Dimensions Of The Scientific Tradition
Four dimensions of the scientific tradition
B. Alan Wallace
From Cognitive Science to a Science of Consciousness
B. Alan Wallace Interalia Magazine
How Meditation Might Ward Off The Effects Of Ageing
How meditation might ward off the effects of ageing
Jo Marchant The Observer
Inside The Shamatha Project
Inside the Shamatha Project
Adeline van Waning Lion’s Roar
Intensive Meditation Training Influences Emotional Responses To Suffering
Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering
Erika Rosenberg, Anthony P. Zanesco, Brandon G. King, Stephen Aichele, Tonya L. Jacobs, David A. Bridwell, Katherine A. MacLean, Phillip Shaver, Emilio Ferrer, Baljinder K. Sahdra, Shiri Lavy, B. Alan Wallace, Clifford D. Saron Emotion
Intensive Meditation Training Leads To Improvements In Perceptual Discrimination And Sustained Attention
Intensive Meditation Training Leads to Improvements in Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention
Katherine A. MacLean, Emilio Ferrer, Stephen Aichele, David A. Bridwell, Anthony P. Zanesco, Tonya L. Jacobs, Brandon G. King, Erika Rosenberg, Baljinder K. Sahdra, Phillip Shaver, B. Alan Wallace, George R. Mangun, Clifford D. Saron Psychological Science
Intensive Meditation Training, Immune Cell Telomerase Activity, And Psychological Mediators
Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators
Tonya L. Jacobs, Elissa Epel, Jue Lin, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Owen M. Wolkowitz, David A. Bridwell, Anthony P. Zanesco, Stephen Aichele, Baljinder K. Sahdra, Katherine A. MacLean, Brandon G. King, Phillip Shaver, Erika Rosenberg, Emilio Ferrer, B. Alan Wallace, Clifford D. Saron Psychoneuroendocrinology
Intensive Training Induces Longitudinal Changes In Meditation State-Related Eeg Oscillatory Activity
Intensive training induces longitudinal changes in meditation state-related EEG oscillatory activity
B. Alan Wallace, Clifford D. Saron, Manish Saggar, Brandon G. King, Anthony P. Zanesco, Katherine A. MacLean, Stephen Aichele, Tonya L. Jacobs, David A. Bridwell, Phillip Shaver, Erika Rosenberg, Emilio Ferrer, Risto Miikkulainen, George R. Mangun, Akaysha C. Tang Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Intersubjectivity In Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Intersubjectivity in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
B. Alan Wallace Journal of Consciousness Studies
Materialism Of The Gaps
Materialism of the Gaps
B. Alan Wallace Mandala: A Tibetan Buddhist Journal
Mean-Field Thalamocortical Modeling Of Longitudinal Eeg Acquired During Intensive Meditation Training
Mean-field thalamocortical modeling of longitudinal EEG acquired during intensive meditation training
Manish Saggar, Anthony P. Zanesco, Brandon G. King, David A. Bridwell, Katherine A. MacLean, Stephen Aichele, Tonya L. Jacobs, B. Alan Wallace, Clifford D. Saron, Risto Miikkulainen NeuroImage
Meditation Training Influences Mind Wandering And Mindless Reading
Meditation training influences mind wandering and mindless reading
Anthony P. Zanesco, Brandon G. King, Katherine A. MacLean, Tonya L. Jacobs, Stephen Aichele, B. Alan Wallace, Jonathan Smallwood, Jonathan Schooler, Clifford D. Saron Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
Meditation Training Influences Mind Wandering And Mindless Reading
Meditation training influences mind wandering and mindless reading
Anthony P. Zanesco, Brandon G. King, Katherine A. MacLean, Tim L. Jacobs, Stephen Aichele, B. Alan Wallace, Jonathan Smallwood, Jonathan Schooler, Clifford D. Saron Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
Meditation Training Modulates Brain Electric Microstates And Felt States Of Awareness
Meditation training modulates brain electric microstates and felt states of awareness
Anthony P. Zanesco, Alea C. Skwara, Brandon G. King, Chivon Powers, Kezia Wineberg, Clifford D. Saron Human Brain Mapping
Meditations Of A Buddhist Skeptic
Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic
B. Alan Wallace
Mental Balance And Well-Being Building Bridges Between Buddhism And Western Psychology
Mental Balance and Well-Being Building Bridges Between Buddhism and Western Psychology
B. Alan Wallace, Shauna Shapiro American Psychologist
Mindfulness: The Heart Of Buddhist Meditation? A Conversation With Jan Chozen Bays, Joseph Goldstein, Jon Kabat-Zinn, And Alan Wallace
Mindfulness: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation? A Conversation with Jan Chozen Bays, Joseph Goldstein, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace Inquiring Mind: A Semiannual Journal of the Vipassana Community
Modulation Of Event-Related Potentials Of Visual Discrimination By Meditation Training And Sustained Attention
Modulation of Event-related Potentials of Visual Discrimination by Meditation Training and Sustained Attention
Anthony P. Zanesco, Brandon G. King, Chivon Powers, Rosanna De Meo, Katherine A. MacLean, Clifford D. Saron Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Network Analysis For The Visualization And Analysis Of Qualitative Data
Network analysis for the visualization and analysis of qualitative data
Jennifer J. Pokorny, Anthony P. Zanesco, Susan Bauer-Wu, Baljinder K. Sahdra, Clifford D. Saron, Alex Norman Psychological Methods
Neuroimaging Data From A Single Participant Before And After A Meditation Retreat: A Proof Of Concept Study
Neuroimaging Data From a Single Participant Before and After a Meditation Retreat: A Proof of Concept Study
João Ricardo Sato, Elisa H. Kozasa, B. Alan Wallace, Edson Amaro Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
Observing The Space Of The Mind
Observing the Space of the Mind
B. Alan Wallace Observing the Space of the Mind
Popping Pills For Depression: A Buddhist View
Popping Pills for Depression: A Buddhist View
B. Alan Wallace Inquiring Mind
PRINCIPLES OF CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCE
B. Alan Wallace Contemplative Science
Rationale For The Establishment Of A Network Of Contemplative Observatories
Rationale for the Establishment of a Network of Contemplative Observatories
B. Alan Wallace Snow Lion: The Buddhist Magazine & Catalog
Self-Reported Mindfulness And Cortisol During A Shamatha Meditation Retreat
Self-reported mindfulness and cortisol during a Shamatha meditation retreat
Tonya L. Jacobs, Phillip Shaver, Elissa Epel, Anthony P. Zanesco, Stephen Aichele, David A. Bridwell, Erika Rosenberg, Brandon G. King, Katherine A. MacLean, Baljinder K. Sahdra, Margaret E. Kemeny, Emilio Ferrer, B. Alan Wallace, Clifford D. Saron Health Psychology
Severing the Roots of Our Discontent – The Buddhist Way
B. Alan Wallace Lion’s Roar
Shamatha In The Indian Buddhist Tradition
Shamatha in the Indian Buddhist Tradition
B. Alan Wallace Mandala: A Tibetan Buddhist Journal
Shifting Baselines: Longitudinal Reductions In Eeg Beta Band Power Characterize Resting Brain Activity With Intensive Meditation
Shifting baselines: Longitudinal reductions in EEG beta band power characterize resting brain activity with intensive meditation
Alea C. Skwara, Brandon G. King, Anthony P. Zanesco, Clifford D. Saron Mindfulness
Six Questions For B. Alan Wallace
Six Questions for B. Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace, Tam Hunt Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
The Buddhist Tradition Of Śamatha: Methods For Refining And Examining Consciousness
The Buddhist Tradition of Śamatha: Methods for Refining and Examining Consciousness
B. Alan Wallace Journal of Consciousness Studies
The Many Worlds of Buddhism and Science
The Many Worlds of Buddhism and Science
The Nature of the Mind
B. Alan Wallace Fathoming the Mind
The Self And The Limits Of Reason In The Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
The Self and the Limits of Reason in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
B. Alan Wallace The Tibet Journal
The Shamatha Project
The Shamatha Project
Sarah Sutherland Drala Mountain Center
The Shamatha Project
The Shamatha Project
Clifford D. Saron Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis
The Study Of Consciousness And Of Buddhist Meditation
The Study of Consciousness and of Buddhist Meditation
Open Court
What Is Contemplation? An Interview With Claire Petitmengin
What is Contemplation? An Interview with Claire Petitmengin
Claire Petitmengin Journal of Contemplative Studies
What Is True Happiness?
What Is True Happiness?
B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Within You, Without You
Within You, Without You
B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
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Books

Books that were written by CCR founders and contributors or that we recommend to learn more about contemplative science and practice. To sort by theme or domain, navigate to the “All Resources” section.

Featured Books

Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation Of Buddhist Thought, Volume 3
Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 3
Geshe Tashi Tsering Wisdom
Man’s Search For Meaning: An Introduction To Logotherapy
Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy
Viktor E. Frankl Simon & Schuster
Mind In The Balance: Meditation In Science, Buddhism, And Christianity
Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity
B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press

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A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life
A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
Shantideva Snow Lion Publications
A Spacious Path To Freedom: Practical Instructions On The Union Of Mahāmudrā And Atiyoga
A Spacious Path to Freedom: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahāmudrā and Atiyoga
Karma Chakme, Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche Snow Lion Publications
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, And Body
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Daniel Goleman, Richard J. Davidson Avery
Balancing The Mind: A Tibetan Buddhist Approach To Refining Attention
Balancing the Mind: A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Refining Attention
B. Alan Wallace Snow Lion Publications
Buddhahood Without Meditation
Buddhahood Without Meditation
Düdjom Lingpa Wisdom Publications
Buddhism And Science: Breaking New Ground
Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground
B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press
Buddhism With An Attitude: The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind-Training
Buddhism with an Attitude: The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind-Training
B. Alan Wallace Snow Lion Publications
Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation Of Buddhist Thought, Volume 3
Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 3
Geshe Tashi Tsering Wisdom
Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View Of Physics And The Mind
Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind
B. Alan Wallace Snow Lion Publications
Consciousness At The Crossroads: Conversations With The Dalai Lama On Brain-Science And Buddhism
Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brain-science and Buddhism
B. Alan Wallace, Zara Houshmand Snow Lion
Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism And Neuroscience Converge
Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge
B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press
Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue With The Dalai Lama
Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama
Daniel Goleman Bantam Doubleday
Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming And Tibetan Dream Yoga For Insight And Transformation
Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation
B. Alan Wallace Shambhala Publications
Embracing Mind: The Common Ground Of Science And Spirituality
Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality
B. Alan Wallace, Brian Hodel Shambala Publications
Essays In Radical Empiricism
Essays in Radical Empiricism
William James Harvard University Press
Ethics For The New Millennium
Ethics for the New Millennium
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Penguin
Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
Howard Rheingold, Stephen LaBerge Ballantine
Fathoming The Mind: Inquiry And Insight In Düdjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence
Fathoming the Mind: Inquiry and Insight in Düdjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence
B. Alan Wallace Wisdom Publications
Four Essential Buddhist Commentaries
Four Essential Buddhist Commentaries
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Gentle Bridges: Conversations With The Dalai Lama On The Sciences Of Mind
Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Francisco Varela, Jeremy Hayward Shambhala Publications
Genuine Happiness: Meditation As A Path To Fulfillment
Genuine Happiness: Meditation as a Path to Fulfillment
B. Alan Wallace John Wiley & Sons
Healing Emotions: Conversations With The Dalai Lama On Mindfulness, Emotions, And Health
Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman Shambhala Publications
Hidden Dimensions: The Unification Of Physics And Consciousness
Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness
B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press
I And Thou
I and Thou
Martin Buber New York: Touchstone
Man’s Search For Meaning: An Introduction To Logotherapy
Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy
Viktor E. Frankl Simon & Schuster
Meditations Of A Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto For The Mind Sciences And Contemplative Practice
Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice
B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press
Mind In The Balance: Meditation In Science, Buddhism, And Christianity
Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity
B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press
Minding Closely: The Four Applications Of Mindfulness
Minding Closely: The Four Applications of Mindfulness
B. Alan Wallace Shambhala Publications
Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava’s Teachings On The Six Bardos
Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava’s Teachings on the Six Bardos
Padmasambhava, Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche Wisdom Publications
Open Mind: View And Meditation In The Lineage Of Lerab Lingpa
Open Mind: View and Meditation in the Lineage of Lerab Lingpa
Lerab Lingpa Wisdom Publications
Qbism: The Future Of Quantum Physics
QBism: The Future of Quantum Physics
Hans Christian von Baeyer Harvard University Press
Realism With A Human Face
Realism with a Human Face
Hillary Putnam Harvard University Press
Sleeping, Dreaming, And Dying: An Exploration Of Consciousness
Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Wisdom
Sleeping, Dreaming, And Dying: An Exploration Of Consciousness With The Dalai Lama
Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness with the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Francisco Varela Wisdom Publications
Stilling The Mind: Shamatha Teachings From Düdjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence
Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Düdjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence
B. Alan Wallace Wisdom Publications
Talks To Teachers On Psychology: And To Students On Some Of Life’s Ideals
Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals
William James Henry Holt and Company
The Art Of Transforming The Mind: A Meditator’s Guide To The Tibetan Practice Of Lojong
The Art of Transforming the Mind: A Meditator’s Guide to the Tibetan Practice of Lojong
B. Alan Wallace Shambhala Publications
The Attention Revolution: Unlocking The Power Of The Focused Mind
The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
B. Alan Wallace Wisdom Publications
The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson MIT Press
The Bridge Of Quiescence: Experiencing Buddhist Meditation
The Bridge of Quiescence: Experiencing Buddhist Meditation
B. Alan Wallace Open Court
The Connected Discourses Of The Buddha: A New Translation Of The Saṃyutta Nikāya
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Saṃyutta Nikāya
Bhikkhu Bodhi Wisdom
The Four Immeasurables: Practices To Open The Heart
The Four Immeasurables: Practices to Open the Heart
B. Alan Wallace Snow Lion Publications
The Less Dust The More Trust: Participating In The Shamatha Project, Meditation And Science
The Less Dust the More Trust: Participating In The Shamatha Project, Meditation And Science
Mantra Books
The Life And Teachings Of Geshé Rabten
The Life and Teachings of Geshé Rabten
Geshe Rabten George Allen & Unwin
The Middle Length Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Majjhima Nikāya
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya
Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli, Bhikkhu Bodhi Wisdom
The New Physics And Cosmology Dialogues With The Dalai Lama
The New Physics and Cosmology Dialogues with the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Arthur Zajonc Oxford University Press
The Principles Of Psychology, Volumes I And Ii (1–2)
The Principles of Psychology, Volumes I and II (1–2)
William James Harvard University Press
The Seven-Point Mind Training: A Tibetan Method For Cultivating Mind And Heart
The Seven-Point Mind Training: A Tibetan Method for Cultivating Mind and Heart
B. Alan Wallace Snow Lion Publications
The Taboo Of Subjectivity: Toward A New Science Of Consciousness
The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness
B. Alan Wallace Oxford University Press
The Universe In A Single Atom: The Convergence Of Science And Spirituality
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Morgan Road Books
The Vajra Essence
The Vajra Essence
Düdjom Lingpa Wisdom Publications
Tibetan Buddhism From The Ground Up
Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up
B. Alan Wallace Wisdom Publications
Tibetan Tradition Of Mental Development
Tibetan Tradition of Mental Development
Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Transcendent Wisdom: A Commentary On The Ninth Chapter Of Shantideva’s Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life
Transcendent Wisdom: A Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of Shantideva’s Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Snow Lion Publications
Cover Page For Honors Thesis, Words Of Emptiness: A Centrist View Of Science And Reality
Words of Emptiness: A Centrist View of Science and Reality
B. Alan Wallace Amherst College
Worlds In Harmony: Dialogues On Compassionate Action
Worlds in Harmony: Dialogues on Compassionate Action
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman Parallax Press
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Meditation Sessions

Meditation sessions taught by CCR teachers. These are the guided meditations alone, but where relevant, we link to the associated teachings. To sort by theme or domain, navigate to the “All Resources” section.

A Heartfelt Aspiration For Compassion
A Heartfelt Aspiration for Compassion
Empathetic Joy: Delight In Others' Virtues
Empathetic Joy: Delight in Others' Virtues
Equanimity: Neutrality Towards Others
Equanimity: Neutrality Towards Others
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): A Dzogchen Approach To Mindfulness Of Breathing
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): A Dzogchen Approach to Mindfulness of Breathing
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Awareness Of Awareness
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Awareness of Awareness
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): How To Stabilize The Trajectory To Enlightenment
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): How to Stabilize the Trajectory to Enlightenment
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Mindfulness Of Breathing
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Mindfulness of Breathing
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Motivation Supernova - The Transcendence Of Conative Intelligence
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Motivation Supernova - the Transcendence of Conative Intelligence
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Sampling Methods Of Shamatha
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Sampling Methods of Shamatha
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Shamatha Sample - A Dzogchen Approach To Mindfulness Of Breathing
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Shamatha Sample - a Dzogchen Approach to Mindfulness of Breathing
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Shamatha Sample - Awareness Of Awareness
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Shamatha Sample - Awareness of Awareness
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Shamatha Sample - Mindfulness Of Breathing
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Shamatha Sample - Mindfulness of Breathing
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Shamatha Sample - Taking The Mind As The Path
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Shamatha Sample - Taking the Mind as the Path
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Taking The Mind As The Path
Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Taking the Mind as the Path
Loving-Kindness Meditation
Loving-Kindness Meditation
Meeting The Resurrected Christ
Meeting the Resurrected Christ
Mindfulness Of Breathing: Introduction To Asanga'S Method
Mindfulness of Breathing: Introduction to Asanga's Method
Mindfulness Of Breathing: Vajra Recitation Of The Three Syllables
Mindfulness of Breathing: Vajra Recitation of the Three Syllables
Mindfulness Of Breathing: Vipashyana Using Asanga'S Method
Mindfulness of Breathing: Vipashyana Using Asanga's Method
Priming Ourselves For Devotion
Priming Ourselves for Devotion
Resting In The Safety Of The Teacher
Resting in the Safety of the Teacher
Settling Body, Speech, And Mind In Their Natural States
Settling Body, Speech, and Mind in their Natural States
Shower of Blessings Sadhana Practice
Surrendering To The Innermost Light
Surrendering to the Innermost Light
Under The Fig Tree: Meeting Christ Without And Within
Under the Fig Tree: Meeting Christ Without and Within
Vipashyana On The Nature Of Mind
Vipashyana on the Nature of Mind
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Podcasts

Podcasts hosted by the CCR (forthcoming) or on which CCR representatives have been guests. To sort by theme or domain, navigate to the “All Resources” section.

Andrew Holecek &Amp;Amp; B. Alan Wallace
Andrew Holecek & B. Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace Night Club Podcast
Get A Phd In Contemplative Science
Get a PhD in Contemplative Science
B. Alan Wallace Buddhist Geeks
Happiness—A Science Of The Mind
Happiness—A Science of the Mind
B. Alan Wallace The Paula Gordon Show: Conversations with People at the Leading Edge
Interview With B. Alan Wallace
Interview with B. Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace The Skeptics Corner
Is The Dalai Lama An Atheist?
Is the Dalai Lama an Atheist?
B. Alan Wallace Skeptiko: Science at the Tipping Point
On Achieving Shamatha
On Achieving Shamatha
B. Alan Wallace Buddhist Geeks
Please Explain: Meditation
Please Explain: Meditation
B. Alan Wallace The Leonard Lopate Show
Unwavering Samadhi: Meditative Achievement And Its Impact In The World
Unwavering Samadhi: Meditative Achievement and Its Impact in the World
B. Alan Wallace Buddhist Geeks
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Alan Wallace Shamatha Live Interview, Talk, Q&Amp;Amp;A
Alan Wallace Shamatha Live Interview, Talk, Q&A
B. Alan Wallace Harvard Divinity School
The Buddhist Contribution To First-Person Cognitive Science
The Buddhist Contribution to First-Person Cognitive Science
B. Alan Wallace Mind & Life Institute
The Nature Of Reality: A Dialogue Between A Buddhist Scholar And A Theoretical Physicist
The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist
B. Alan Wallace, Sean M. Carroll Nourse Theater

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Alan Wallace Shamatha Live Interview, Talk, Q&Amp;Amp;A
Alan Wallace Shamatha Live Interview, Talk, Q&A
B. Alan Wallace Harvard Divinity School
Believers, Contemplatives, And The Future Of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response To The Current Metacrisis | Part 1
Believers, Contemplatives, and the Future of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response to the Current Metacrisis | Part 1
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Believers, Contemplatives, And The Future Of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response To The Current Metacrisis | Part 2
Believers, Contemplatives, and the Future of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response to the Current Metacrisis | Part 2
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Believers, Contemplatives, And The Future Of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response To The Current Metacrisis | Part 3
Believers, Contemplatives, and the Future of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response to the Current Metacrisis | Part 3
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Believers, Contemplatives, And The Future Of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response To The Current Metacrisis | Part 4 - Cognitive Intelligence (1 Of 2)
Believers, Contemplatives, and the Future of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response to the Current Metacrisis | Part 4 - Cognitive Intelligence (1 of 2)
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Believers, Contemplatives, And The Future Of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response To The Current Metacrisis | Part 4 - Cognitive Intelligence (2 Of 2)
Believers, Contemplatives, and the Future of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response to the Current Metacrisis | Part 4 - Cognitive Intelligence (2 of 2)
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Believers, Contemplatives, and the Future of Human Civilization: A Buddhist Response to the Current Metacrisis | Part 5 - The Cultivation of Cognitive Intelligence, Part 2: Exploring the Actual Nature of Mind
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Christ As Guru: Understanding The Christian Path From A Buddhist Perspective
Christ as Guru: Understanding the Christian Path from a Buddhist Perspective
Eva Natanya The Contemplary
Commentary On Drubpön Lama Karma’s Shamatha Teachings
Commentary on Drubpön Lama Karma’s Shamatha Teachings
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Crucial Points In The Practice Of Shamatha: A Brief Guide To Mental Health And Well-Being
Crucial Points in the Practice of Shamatha: A Brief Guide to Mental Health and Well-being
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Cultivating Attentional Intelligence
Cultivating Attentional Intelligence
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Education And The Pursuit Of Happiness
Education and the Pursuit of Happiness
B. Alan Wallace University of California, Santa Barbara
Fathom The Mind: Contemplative Science Can Heal The World
Fathom the Mind: Contemplative Science Can Heal the World
B. Alan Wallace University of Canterbury
Four Kinds Of Intelligence For Optimal Mental Health And Balance
Four Kinds of Intelligence for Optimal Mental Health and Balance
B. Alan Wallace Meridian Trust
Ghatika Monthly Meditation 12: The Self Care Journey - Cultivating Equanimity And Interdependence
Ghatika Monthly Meditation 12: The Self Care Journey - Cultivating Equanimity and Interdependence
Anita Milicevic Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Meditation 13: Embracing Balance - Navigating Healthy Boundaries And Boundless Love
Ghatika Monthly Meditation 13: Embracing Balance - Navigating Healthy Boundaries and Boundless Love
Anita Milicevic Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Meditation 14: The Power Of Humility - Cultivating Psychological Flexibility, Mental Health, And Well-Being
Ghatika Monthly Meditation 14: The Power of Humility - Cultivating Psychological Flexibility, Mental Health, and Well-Being
Anita Milicevic Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 10: Motivation Supernova - The Transcendence Of Conative Intelligence
Ghatika Monthly Session 10: Motivation Supernova - the Transcendence of Conative Intelligence
Eva Natanya Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 11: How To Stabilize The Trajectory To Enlightenment
Ghatika Monthly Session 11: How to Stabilize the Trajectory to Enlightenment
Eva Natanya Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 1: Empathetic Joy
Ghatika Monthly Session 1: Empathetic Joy
Clara Seeger Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 2: Equanimity
Ghatika Monthly Session 2: Equanimity
Clara Seeger Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 3: Appreciating Our Human Lives
Ghatika Monthly Session 3: Appreciating Our Human Lives
Clara Seeger Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 4: Becoming Comfortable With Impermanence
Ghatika Monthly Session 4: Becoming Comfortable with Impermanence
Clara Seeger Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 5: Sampling Methods For Stabilizing Attention
Ghatika Monthly Session 5: Sampling Methods for Stabilizing Attention
Doug Veenhof Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 6: Mindfulness Of Breathing
Ghatika Monthly Session 6: Mindfulness of Breathing
Doug Veenhof Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 7: A Dzogchen Approach To Mindfulness Of Breathing
Ghatika Monthly Session 7: A Dzogchen Approach to Mindfulness of Breathing
Doug Veenhof Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 8: Taking The Mind As The Path
Ghatika Monthly Session 8: Taking the Mind as the Path
Doug Veenhof Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Ghatika Monthly Session 9: Awareness Of Awareness
Ghatika Monthly Session 9: Awareness of Awareness
Doug Veenhof Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Modern Science Meets Classical Indian Views of Consciousness
B. Alan Wallace Online
Reflections On Christianity And Buddhism - Part 1
Reflections on Christianity and Buddhism - Part 1
Eva Natanya Lama Tzong Khapa Institute
Reflections On Christianity And Buddhism - Part 2
Reflections on Christianity and Buddhism - Part 2
Eva Natanya Lama Tzong Khapa Institute
Stages Of Practice On The Path To The Great Perfection
Stages of Practice on the Path to the Great Perfection
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
The Buddhist Contribution To First-Person Cognitive Science
The Buddhist Contribution to First-Person Cognitive Science
B. Alan Wallace Mind & Life Institute
The Nature Of Reality: A Dialogue Between A Buddhist Scholar And A Theoretical Physicist
The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist
B. Alan Wallace, Sean M. Carroll Nourse Theater
Toward The First Revolution In The Mind Sciences
Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences
B. Alan Wallace Google Headquarters
Video Introduction To The Ccr By Founder B. Alan Wallace
Video Introduction to the CCR by Founder B. Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace Miyo Samten Ling Hermitage, Center for Contemplative Research
Where Do Theism And Non-Theism Converge?
Where Do Theism and Non-theism Converge?
B. Alan Wallace World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM)
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Alan Wallace Shamatha Live Interview, Talk, Q&Amp;Amp;A
Alan Wallace Shamatha Live Interview, Talk, Q&A
The Buddhist Contribution To First-Person Cognitive Science
The Buddhist Contribution to First-Person Cognitive Science
The Nature Of Reality: A Dialogue Between A Buddhist Scholar And A Theoretical Physicist
The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist

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7-Year Follow-Up Shows Lasting Cognitive Gains From Meditation
7-Year Follow-Up Shows Lasting Cognitive Gains From Meditation
Andy Fell UC Davis
A Buddhist View Of Free Will: Beyond Determinism And Indeterminism
A Buddhist View of Free Will: Beyond Determinism and Indeterminism
B. Alan Wallace Journal of Consciousness Studies
A Computational Approach To Understanding The Longitudinal Changes In Cortical Activity Associated With Intensive Meditation Training
A computational approach to understanding the longitudinal changes in cortical activity associated with intensive meditation training
Nineteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS 2010
A Computational Approach To Understanding The Longitudinal Changes In Cortical Activity Associated With Intensive Meditation Training
A computational approach to understanding the longitudinal changes in cortical activity associated with intensive meditation training
Manish Saggar, Stephen Aichele, Tonya L. Jacobs, Anthony P. Zanesco, David A. Bridwell, Katherine A. MacLean, Brandon G. King, Baljinder K. Sahdra, Erika Rosenberg, Phillip Shaver, Emilio Ferrer, B. Alan Wallace, George R. Mangun, Clifford D. Saron, Risto Miikkulainen Nineteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS 2010, San Antonio, TX, USA
A Contemplative View Of The Mind
A Contemplative View of the Mind
B. Alan Wallace A Contemplative View of the Mind
A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life
A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
Shantideva Snow Lion Publications
A Heartfelt Aspiration For Compassion
A Heartfelt Aspiration for Compassion
A Mindful Balance
A Mindful Balance
B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
A New Paradigm For Science And Religion In The Twenty-First Century
A New Paradigm for Science and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
B. Alan Wallace
A Path Of Irreversible Transformation
A Path of Irreversible Transformation
B. Alan Wallace

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