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His Holiness the Dalai Lama visits Rochester
Mon, Apr 30th, 2012
Posted in Rochester Features
Posted in Rochester Features
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited Rochester for his annual check up at Mayo Clinic. While in town, he participated in a panel discussion “Integrating Mindfulness in Healthcare” in the Domitilla Chapel of Saint Mary’s Hospital on Tuesday, April 24th.
Several hundred people were in attendance, and several thousand watched via Mayo internal webcast. To see him in person at the Chapel, one had to put their name into a lottery system.
Seat winner Leona Han, of Mayo Clinic’s Bioethics Research Unit, said she was extremely excited to receive the email alert that her name had been drawn.
“I felt like I got the golden ticket! When I went to pick it up, I was told by the woman at Osmun that there were over 6,000 people on the waiting list, so I had better be sure to go,” said Han.
The moderators of the panel were Dr. Amit Sood, chair of the Mind Body Medicine Initiative, and Dr. Daniel Goleman, board member of the Mind and Life Institute. In addition to the Dalai Lama, the panelists were Ms. Carla Paonessa, board member of Leadership at Mayo Clinic Arizona, and Ms. Sherry Chesak, nursing education specialist. Dr. Sood described the meditation, stress management, and resiliency training programs at Mayo Clinic.
The Dalai Lama, sporting a University of Minnesota crimson and yellow visor, then made some remarks on compassion and on setting appropriate goals for training. He quoted Buddhist scripture to say, “In order to have a realistic goal, one needs to understand reality for which the mind must be calm,” and to have a calm mind, one must have compassion. “Fear, anger, and hatred narrows the mind.”
“What struck me was how human he was.” Han said. “I think people expect [the Dalai Lama] to come in and levitate, but he could have been my friend’s grandfather. He seems to chuckle at how much people make of him.”
Han was struck by his humility and down-to-earth disposition. Her coworker, Jenny Ostergren of the Bioethics Research Unit who had not won a “golden ticket,” but who had watched the webcast, added,
“He seems like a friendly, nice person, who doesn’t take himself, or others too seriously.”
The panel opened the forum for discussion, and several people stood to ask His Holiness questions about “compassion fatigue” and how, practically, people can find resiliency when they work in a profession that is emotionally and spiritually demanding.
“I really enjoyed how his response to several questions was simply, ‘I don’t know’,” said Jenny Ostergren.
“Yeah, he didn’t posture or spout out hubris to address the deep mysteries of the human experience. He was able to put his hands up and say, that’s not for me to answer. And I loved how much he laughed.”
His ability to laugh and keep good humor was one of the ways he said he has been able to keep his resilience. Also, he said it was by being realistic. A barrier to compassion in modern life, the Dalai Lama said, is materialism. His Holiness believes inner values should be promoted instead, primarily through education.
Several hundred people were in attendance, and several thousand watched via Mayo internal webcast. To see him in person at the Chapel, one had to put their name into a lottery system.
Seat winner Leona Han, of Mayo Clinic’s Bioethics Research Unit, said she was extremely excited to receive the email alert that her name had been drawn.
“I felt like I got the golden ticket! When I went to pick it up, I was told by the woman at Osmun that there were over 6,000 people on the waiting list, so I had better be sure to go,” said Han.
The moderators of the panel were Dr. Amit Sood, chair of the Mind Body Medicine Initiative, and Dr. Daniel Goleman, board member of the Mind and Life Institute. In addition to the Dalai Lama, the panelists were Ms. Carla Paonessa, board member of Leadership at Mayo Clinic Arizona, and Ms. Sherry Chesak, nursing education specialist. Dr. Sood described the meditation, stress management, and resiliency training programs at Mayo Clinic.
The Dalai Lama, sporting a University of Minnesota crimson and yellow visor, then made some remarks on compassion and on setting appropriate goals for training. He quoted Buddhist scripture to say, “In order to have a realistic goal, one needs to understand reality for which the mind must be calm,” and to have a calm mind, one must have compassion. “Fear, anger, and hatred narrows the mind.”
“What struck me was how human he was.” Han said. “I think people expect [the Dalai Lama] to come in and levitate, but he could have been my friend’s grandfather. He seems to chuckle at how much people make of him.”
Han was struck by his humility and down-to-earth disposition. Her coworker, Jenny Ostergren of the Bioethics Research Unit who had not won a “golden ticket,” but who had watched the webcast, added,
“He seems like a friendly, nice person, who doesn’t take himself, or others too seriously.”
The panel opened the forum for discussion, and several people stood to ask His Holiness questions about “compassion fatigue” and how, practically, people can find resiliency when they work in a profession that is emotionally and spiritually demanding.
“I really enjoyed how his response to several questions was simply, ‘I don’t know’,” said Jenny Ostergren.
“Yeah, he didn’t posture or spout out hubris to address the deep mysteries of the human experience. He was able to put his hands up and say, that’s not for me to answer. And I loved how much he laughed.”
His ability to laugh and keep good humor was one of the ways he said he has been able to keep his resilience. Also, he said it was by being realistic. A barrier to compassion in modern life, the Dalai Lama said, is materialism. His Holiness believes inner values should be promoted instead, primarily through education.
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