Last Updated on March 13, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
On the picture on the left, we can see unsharp the potential Director of Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation Zurich (the woman in grey):
We are convinced that the picture is unsharp on purpose. Is she a secret agent of Roche in Basel to find out how much money can be made of practicing meditation? Is she a friend of Rob ter Horst, and does she also do 11 hours of brain scans, physiological data analysis etc. a week, to find out about the effect of 20 min. Mind Training a day? And are also the other practitioners secret Roche agents to do a marketing study in Zurich?
Our hypothesis is, that Laghsam is an undercover project of Roche in Basel. Everything on Laghsam is too professional to be a project which is done for fun and in their spare time. Is Laghsam a clinical and marketing study of Roche? Who else has so much money to to pay for the expensive flights of the teachers to fly them from around the world to Zurich and back? Do also the teachers who fly to Zurich participate on brain scans to study the effect of practicing meditation on the brain? Only this would justify to fly them to Zurich. We suppose they are all long-term meditation practitioners, and practice more than 20 min daily.
Here we have a sharp picture of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche:
He is Tibetan teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. Unfortunately, we do not know of any new brain scan data from him since 2004, where he participated in a PNAS study:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
So we don t know if he is still among the world champions of Mind Training. We need new data to know this.