Are the Meditation Research Institute at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in India & the Laghsam Tibetan Meditation Zurich Switzerland interested in the long-term effect of practicing meditation on the body & the brain – if so, what would be a good stragety for a sustainable project?

Last Updated on May 17, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

The Meditation Research Institute at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in India was founded 2005:

https://www.ahymsin.org/the-meditation-research-institute

https://www.ahymsin.org/about-the-meditation-research-institute-m-r-i/

  • shortly after Richcard Davidsons paper about the effect of practicing mediation on brain waves:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101

  • The Meditation Research Institute at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in India published a view papers and then had no further activity.
  • According to the equipment of the Institute, there must have been a funder with a lot of money behind that project, who eventually has let go of the project.

Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in India is a school who teaches meditation:

https://www.sadhakagrama.org/

As the Laghsam Tibetan Meditation Zurich Switzerland is a school who teaches meditation:

  • Laghsam has an in-transparent funder, which seems to have a lot of money to fly teachers from all around the world to Zurich and then back.
  • The founding of Laghsam was about at the same time as the publication date of Richard Davidsons book “Altered Traits”.

https://www.orellfuessli.ch/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1049568889

  • Laghsam eventually has a connection to Roche Pharma in Basel.

Are these projects which are interested in the effect of practicing mediation on the body and the brain? This is great, but such project require long-term studies and long-term fundings to be successful. If we look at self-experiences spiritual leaders, they report of more than 10 years of full time practice to have a break trough, as in the example of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. This is eventually also the time window for scientific studies to be successful. Shorter studies might fail, since the study time is too short.