The Dalai Lama always stirs up plenty of karmic excitement when he comes to town. But a sold-out conference-”Investigating the Mind: Exchanges Between Buddhism and the Biobehavioral Sciences on How the Mind Works”-held last week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had a bunch of Western scientists downright giddy.
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Can concentration be controlled? Can attention be practiced and perfected? These are questions that are of increasing interest today to scientists, but which Buddhist monks have been exploring for thousands of years.

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