{"id":9717,"date":"2009-12-14T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T13:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:57:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:57:21","slug":"mind-life-compassion-in-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/mind-life-compassion-in-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"MIND &#038; LIFE: COMPASSION IN ECONOMY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9718 alignnone\" title=\"mind and live\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/mind-and-live-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"mind and live\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/mind-and-live-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/mind-and-live.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalailama.com\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">www.dalailama.com<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindandlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&gt; <span style=\"font-size: small;\">MIND AND LIFE<\/span> &lt;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.compassionineconomics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&gt; ALTRUISM &amp; COMPASSION IN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS &lt;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">April 9\u201311, 2010, Kongresshaus, Zurich Switzerland<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindandlife.org\/books.pubs_section.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&gt; BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS &lt;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindandlife.org\/initiatives_section.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&gt; <span style=\"font-size: small;\">RESEARCH INITIATIVES<\/span> &lt;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">The Mind and Life Institute is dedicated to fostering dialogue and research at the highest possible level between modern science and the great living contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism. It builds on a deep commitment to the power and value of both of these ways of advancing knowledge and their potential to alleviate suffering.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">The ongoing global financial crisis shows clearly just how vulnerable economic systems are to human behavior, particularly to corruption and greed. This strongly suggests that other qualities, such as empathy, pro-social motivation, altruism and compassion may play an essential role in our increasingly competitive global economic system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">But can we really imagine an economic system that delivers prosperity and welfare, or is competition an unavoidable consequence of the human race? How can we, as individuals, help form a society that is both productive and resolves actual societal and environmental problems? What have the sciences to contribute &#8211; if anything at all?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">By bringing together some of the world\u2019s leading minds, the Mind and Life XX Conference highlights the benefits and limitations of altruism and compassion in economic systems. This offers a unique opportunity to follow a high-level, interdisciplinary exchange of scientists and economists focusing both on individual thinking and the structure of economic systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Thus, the conference will build bridges between different disciplines and serve as a catalyst for new research projects and economic initiatives promoting personal responsibility, fairness and compassion.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><strong>Mind and Life XIV &#8211; Dialogues on &#8222;The Universe in a Single Atom&#8220;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">The Dalai Lama&#8217;s book The Universe in a Single Atom: the Convergence of Science and Spirituality highlights those issues he feels are most important in the &#8222;convergence of science and spirituality.&#8220; These issues form the focus of this webcast of the Mind and Life XIV meeting, and become the foundation on which a group of scientists develop a deep dialogue with the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist scholar-practitioners. <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalailama.com\/webcasts\/post\/11-mind-and-life-xiv---dialogues-on-the-universe-in-a-single-atom\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">&gt;<strong> VIEW HERE <\/strong>&lt;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#\/pages\/The-Mind-and-Life-Institute\/69605211193?ref=search&amp;sid=1447445613.116008347..1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">&gt; Meet Mind and Life, Friends, Studies at facebook &lt;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#\/search\/?flt=1&amp;q=vedic&amp;o=69&amp;sid=1447445613.2855677621..1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">&gt; Meet Vedic Friends, Studies, Groups at facebook &lt;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nwww.dalailama.com<br \/>\n&gt; MIND AND LIFE &lt;<br \/>\n&gt; ALTRUISM &amp; COMPASSION IN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS &lt;<br \/>\nApril 9\u201311, 2010, Kongresshaus, Zurich Switzerland<br \/>\n&gt; BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS &lt;<br \/>\n&gt; RESEARCH INITIATIVES &lt;<br \/>\nThe Mind and Life Institute is dedicated to fostering dialogue and research at the highest possible level between modern science and the great living contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism. 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