Synopsis: Research scientist and adjunct professor at the Psychology Dept. and Center for Neural Science, New York University- Dr Josipovic is a long-term practitioner of meditation. He has also worked as a clinical psychotherapist and a bodyworker and has taught meditation for many years. Dr Josipovic’s main interests are the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain and the functioning of anti-correlated neural networks.
Synopsis: Vajrasattva (Diamond Mind or Thunderbolt Mind)is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana and Vajrayana buddhist traditions. In Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist practice, Vajrasattva is used in the Ngondro, or preliminary practices, in order to “purify” the mind’s defilements, prior to undertaking more advanced tantric techniques. The ‘yik gya’, the ‘Hundred Syllable Mantra’ -supplication of Vajrasattva, approaches universality in the various elementary Ngondro sadhana for sadhakas of all Mantrayana and Sarma schools bar the Bonpo. The above ‘Hundred Syllable Mantra’ is recited by Mingyur Rinpoche.
