A Psychologist and a Monk: Steve and the Venerable Lobsang Nyingpo

[Guest guest]

Last summer I did a session with a Buddhist monkat a local meditation center (Diamond Heart, here in Reno) on various topics. The monk was the Ven. Lobsang

Nyingpo is the Director of the Tibetan Language Hypertext Project and

teaches Tibetan

Heart Yoga, Tibetan Language, Debate, and Buddhist Philosophy at Diamond Mountain University in southeast Arizona.

He is an accredited staff instructor with the Yoga Studies Institute.

My own focus was not really ACT qua ACT -- so this is really just some thoughts from thiswing of the mindfulness community and perspectives from Tibetan Buddhism. The format was very free wheeling -- opening comments and a questions from the audience.

Anyway I thought it might be of some use.These are the four sessions on YouTube. The first one starts slowly (introductions you can barely hear) but then it gets going after a couple of minutes.

 Video 1:  http://youtu.be/MG1JDOVHYSk

Video 2:  http://youtu.be/1WDaP8IzUEAVideo 3:  http://youtu.be/aFc-rci0SowVideo 4:  http://youtu.be/pS8WnOPST3Y

They are not yet well indexed or cross linked (we are stilllearning how to do that) so when you finish one you have to come backto these links to do the next. Feel free to forward or whatever- S

C.

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