Buddhist cultures and communities have long known the positive and healing qualities and effects of mindfulness and meditation. Empirical and scientific inquiry into the efficaciousness of meditation is fairly recent. This course will explore and examine the increasing wealth of evidence around mindfulness and meditation and prepare students to deepen their understanding of the benefits of meditation beyond the spiritual and ethical dimensions. Increased knowledge and insight into the secular benefits of meditation will enable students with additional upaya (skillful means) to offer and share such practices with persons who may have other spiritual or religious orientations.