What has become out of the vision of the Dalai Lama the 14 & his meditation research project?

Last Updated on February 19, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org

The Dalai Lama wanted Richard Davidson to make out of the Tibetan Buddhist meditation a secular practice based on scientific findings:

The Dalai Lama the 14 th teaches mind training also for non believers which is not scientific:

And also Kundalini Yoga of Yogi Bhajan is a training which is purely secular:

And what has become out of the vision of the Dalai Lama the 14? Altered Traits?:

But who teaches according to Altered Traits?

Whe have Jon Kabat-Zinn who has developed a scientific method. But he stopped practicing it by himself. So is something wrong with his teaching?

We have Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy by Zindel Segal which is scientific. But he stopped practicing meditation as well. So what is wrong with his teaching?

Then we have Milarepa who meditated in his cave:

And became the most famous author of the Tibetans and founded his own school. And this school has followers up to the present day:

Altough Milarepa seems not to be very popular in Switzerland.

In Switzerland we have Diego Hangartner:

https://www.diegohangartner.org

And Ven. Losang Palmo (Rita Riniker)

https://longku.fpmt.ch/de/lehrende/ven-losang-palmo-rita-riniker

But are those two not mainly privately funded?

According to the Buddhist teachings one is only completely mentally healthy if one is completely enlightened. This means 12 years of hardship in India:

But how to finance 12 years of hardship in India for those who are not completely mentally healthy? There are rumors that Swiss psychotherapists give up their patients after 12 years:

A parody about experiences of patients who where treated with psychotherapy on the long-term in Switzerland

But Pro Infirmis Switzerland rejects this:

https://www.proinfirmis.ch

Pro Infirmis says it should be the priority of your psychotherapist to get you back to work as his lifetime journey. And Pro Infirmis says also bringing you back to a job is not forced anymore by the social insurance companies starting from when you are 60 years old. Since the remaining 5 years up to 65 when you retire is not something which is interesting anymore for social insurance companies to force you to bring you back to a job.

And Pro Infirmis Switzerland supports also people to bring them back to work in the lab:

https://www.proinfirmis.ch/angebot/zuerich.html