Prof. Alfred Kaszniak on Mind & Life Podcast

May 19, 2022
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We are pleased to share a recent interview with Professor Alfred Kaszniak, Sensei and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Tucson, in conversation with Dr. Wendy Hasenkamp on the Mind & Life podcast. Dr. Hasenkamp is a neuroscientist, meditator, and Science Director at the Mind & Life Institute, an organization that supports continuing dialogue between contemplative traditions, science, philosophy, and the humanities.

 

In this podcast, Prof. Kaszniak and Dr. Hasenkamp cover several topics, including:

 

  • research on meditation, emotion, and attention; 
  • how our view of self impacts what seems relevant to us; 
  • cognitive effort and emotion regulation; 
  • attention and early emotion/affective tone; 
  • shifting out of the conceptual mind; 
  • the relationship of attention and emotion;
  • free will vs. free won't (meditation as inhibition); 
  • increasing access to contemplative ideas and practices; 
  • mind as process, interaction, and context—and what that means for science; 
  • and the value of interdisciplinary dialogue and the "in-between" spaces.

 

Click here to listen now: https://podcast.mindandlife.org/al-kaszniak/ or you can subscribe to the show on your preferred player.