Relevance to resonance  May 16, 2012|Arianna Huffington |
Tribune Media Services  LONDON - At a lunch in the crypt at St.
Paul's Cathedral before the Dalai Lama received the Templeton
Prize on Monday, I was seated next to Canon Mark Oakley. "We
need to move beyond relevance to resonance," he said. It was a
call to move beyond the shallows to the depths, beyond the
passing novelties of the moment to the echoes of the soul. The
canon summed up the vicious circle we too often find ourselves
caught in: "We are," he said, "spending money we don't have on
things we don't want in order to impress people we don't like."
To find the peace of mind that alone can replace this aimless
search which has led to an epidemic of stress, anxiety and drugs
- legal and illegal - the Dalai Lama is looking to science
(specifically neuroscience) to convince a skeptical,
increasingly secular society of the power of contemplation and
compassion to change our lives and our world.  As he wrote in
his 2005 book, "The Universe in a Singl