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Those outside the Bay Area have the option of viewing the livestream and offering questions in real time. A video of the event will be posted on the initiative’s website at a later date. It was announced earlier this month that Charles Halpern will be the first director of the new Mindfulness in Law initiative at Berkeley. For more information, click here. To read more about mindfulness and law practice, read The Law of Mindfulness by Barry Boyce....

How did you first come to meditation? In 2012, while at UCLA getting my master’s degree in social work, I did an internship at a school in the Watts neighborhood. On day one, the school shut down for race-related fighting and thieving of computers, and I had teachers tossing me students. As I got to know them, kids would disclose sexual abuse and other traumatic experiences, and then they would leave the room, and I would hold my head and cry....

Co-operation A wise teacher was asked: “What’s the secret to your happiness?” The reply came back: “A wholehearted cooperation with the unavoidable.” When the present moment is boring, irritating, frightening, or painful, we may not want to co-operate. We may fear it will feel like resignation or self-betrayal, or that we’ll be overwhelmed. But when we can’t change much about our situation, we can change our approach to it. The word co-operate means “to work with,” and this requires alignment....

The study used stop-action photography of eye blinks and electrodes attached to the ears of the canines to measure reactivity to stimuli. Prior to being exposed to chew toys, treats, and bowls of kibble, the study subjects “had a mini-retreat in ‘The Canine Meditation Hall,’”—an isolation room furnished with specially crafted, dog-friendly zabutons, or meditation mats—and were shown videos of other dogs (mostly owned and trained by American meditation teachers) sitting erect and peacefully....

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