Tamannah Bhatia to act with Prabhu Deva in her first Hindi thriller film!

“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. . . An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.” 

-William James 1890

The second is more scientific.  In order to perform experiments, a scientist needs a lab with the right tools.  The untrained mind is unwieldy – easily distracted, prone to dullness, never still but always jittery and burdened.  Meditation cultivates your mind as a tool – steadies it, sharpens it, gives you practice in controlling it.  It allows you to run reliable experiments in your head (which is what math is, sort of).  Traditionally the purpose of this was to allow meditators to go deeper into the nature of reality, in order to find the most universal truths and embrace the world with the most expansive compassion.  But you can use it to do better math, too.

If anyone has personal experience with, or questions about, math and meditation, in or out of the classroom, I’d love to hear them (here or by email).