The Dalai Lama recently visited with President Obama. Not such an unusual event since they have visited before, but the Chinese Government used this as an opportunity to complain, threaten, and posture. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been through a lot. The Chinese occupied his homeland in 1949 and he went into exile in…

The University of Vermont College of Medicine’s Committee for the Program in Integrative Health (PIH) recently had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Avaid Haramati from Georgetown Medical School. Adi, as he was affectionately called, talked about the course he has implemented for first and second year medical students at Georgetown teaching them a variety of…

I heard the news of the Connecticut shooting incident from one of my patients and then listened to NPR and Marketplace. Kai Ryssdal, who has four young children, wanted to find a way to present the massacre from a perspective relative to his program. He disovered there are 58,000 gun shops in the United States.…

Venerated, engaged Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax speaks on compassion and empathy. She speaks to opening to the pain of the world with courage, strength, and wisdom.

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