Library

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.

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

B. Alan Wallace Journal of Consciousness Studies

A Mindful Balance

B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

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

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

Andy Fell UC Davis

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

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

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A Contemplative View of the Mind

B. Alan Wallace A Contemplative View of the Mind

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

James Elliott, B. Alan Wallace, Barry Giesbrecht Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

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

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

B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

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

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]

Manish Saggar Institutional Repository at the University of Texas at Austin

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

B. Alan Wallace Interalia Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

B. Alan Wallace Interalia Magazine

Exploring the Nature of Consciousness

Mind in the Balance

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

Jo Marchant The Observer

Inside the Shamatha Project

Adeline van Waning Lion’s Roar

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, 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

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

B. Alan Wallace Journal of Consciousness Studies

Materialism of the Gaps

B. Alan Wallace Mandala: A Tibetan Buddhist Journal

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

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

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

Anthony P. Zanesco, Alea C. Skwara, Brandon G. King, Chivon Powers, Kezia Wineberg, Clifford D. Saron Human Brain Mapping

Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic

B. Alan Wallace

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

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

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

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

João Ricardo Sato, Elisa H. Kozasa, B. Alan Wallace, Edson Amaro Journal of Cognitive Enhancement

Observing the Space of the Mind

B. Alan Wallace Observing the Space of the Mind

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

B. Alan Wallace Snow Lion: The Buddhist Magazine & Catalog

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

B. Alan Wallace Mandala: A Tibetan Buddhist Journal

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

B. Alan Wallace, Tam Hunt Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

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 Nature of the Mind

B. Alan Wallace Fathoming the Mind

The Self and the Limits of Reason in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

B. Alan Wallace The Tibet Journal

The Shamatha Project

Sarah Sutherland Drala Mountain Center

The Shamatha Project

Clifford D. Saron Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis

The Study of Consciousness and of Buddhist Meditation

Open Court

What is Contemplation? An Interview with Claire Petitmengin

Claire Petitmengin Journal of Contemplative Studies

What Is True Happiness?

B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Within You, Without You

B. Alan Wallace Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

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

Geshe Tashi Tsering Wisdom

Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy

Viktor E. Frankl Simon & Schuster

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

Shantideva Snow Lion Publications

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

Daniel Goleman, Richard J. Davidson Avery

Balancing the Mind: A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Refining Attention

B. Alan Wallace Snow Lion Publications

Buddhahood Without Meditation

Düdjom Lingpa Wisdom Publications

Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground

B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press

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

Geshe Tashi Tsering Wisdom

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

B. Alan Wallace, Zara Houshmand Snow Lion

Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge

B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press

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

B. Alan Wallace Shambhala Publications

Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality

B. Alan Wallace, Brian Hodel Shambala Publications

Essays in Radical Empiricism

William James Harvard University Press

Ethics for the New Millennium

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Penguin

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

Howard Rheingold, Stephen LaBerge Ballantine

Fathoming the Mind: Inquiry and Insight in Düdjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence

B. Alan Wallace Wisdom Publications

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

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Francisco Varela, Jeremy Hayward Shambhala Publications

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

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman Shambhala Publications

Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness

B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press

I and Thou

Martin Buber New York: Touchstone

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

B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press

Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press

Minding Closely: The Four Applications of Mindfulness

B. Alan Wallace Shambhala Publications

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

Lerab Lingpa Wisdom Publications

QBism: The Future of Quantum Physics

Hans Christian von Baeyer Harvard University Press

Realism with a Human Face

Hillary Putnam Harvard University Press

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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

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Francisco Varela Wisdom Publications

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

William James Henry Holt and Company

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

B. Alan Wallace Wisdom Publications

The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson MIT Press

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

Bhikkhu Bodhi Wisdom

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

Mantra Books

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

Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli, Bhikkhu Bodhi Wisdom

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)

William James Harvard University Press

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

B. Alan Wallace Oxford University Press

The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Morgan Road Books

The Vajra Essence

Düdjom Lingpa Wisdom Publications

Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up

B. Alan Wallace Wisdom Publications

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

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Snow Lion Publications

Words of Emptiness: A Centrist View of Science and Reality

B. Alan Wallace Amherst College

Worlds in Harmony: Dialogues on Compassionate Action

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman Parallax Press

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

Discovering Loving-Kindness: Guided Meditation from Believers, Contemplatives, and the Future of Human Civilization, Part 6

Empathetic Joy: Delight in Others' Virtues

Equanimity: Neutrality Towards Others

Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): A Dzogchen Approach to Mindfulness of Breathing

Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Awareness of Awareness

Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Body Scan and Mindfulness of Breathing with John Bruna

Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Embracing Balance - Navigating Healthy Boundaries and Boundless Love

Meditation Audio Cover Love Never Ends with Dr. Eva Natanya

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 with David Oromith

Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Motivation Supernova - the Transcendence of Conative Intelligence

Ghatika Monthly Meditation 16 Meditation Audio with John Bruna

Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Relaxing the Body and Mind with Mindfulness of Breathing

Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): Sampling Methods of Shamatha

Sample Dzogchen 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 - Mindfulness of Breathing

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): The Power of Humility - Cultivating Psychological Flexibility, Mental Health, and Well-Being

Ghatika Monthly (Meditation Audio): The Self-Care Journey - Cultivating Equanimity and Interdependence

Loving-Kindness Meditation

Meeting the Resurrected Christ

Mindfulness of Breathing: Introduction to Asanga's Method

Mindfulness of Breathing: Vajra Recitation of the Three Syllables

Mindfulness of Breathing: Vipashyana Using Asanga's Method

Priming Ourselves for Devotion

Resting in the Safety of the Teacher

Settling Body, Speech, and Mind in their Natural States

Shower of Blessings Sadhana Practice

Surrendering to the Innermost Light

Believers and Contemplatives Part 7 Meditation

Transcending the Ordinary Mind to Know Your True Nature: Guided Meditation from Believers, Contemplatives, and the Future of Human Civilization, Part 7

Under the Fig Tree: Meeting Christ Without and Within

Meditation Session from P3 Believers Contemplatives and the Future of Human Civilization

Vipashyana on the Nature of Mind

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 & B. Alan Wallace

B. Alan Wallace Night Club Podcast

Get a PhD in Contemplative Science

B. Alan Wallace Buddhist Geeks

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

B. Alan Wallace The Skeptics Corner

Is the Dalai Lama an Atheist?

B. Alan Wallace Skeptiko: Science at the Tipping Point

On Achieving Shamatha

B. Alan Wallace Buddhist Geeks

Please Explain: Meditation

B. Alan Wallace The Leonard Lopate Show

Unwavering Samadhi: Meditative Achievement and Its Impact in the World

B. Alan Wallace Buddhist Geeks

Talks

Lectures, teachings, and dialogues from a variety of forums that explore foundational concepts to the CCR’s mission and probe into some of the deepest questions of consciousness and well-being.