A story about a scientist turned nun meditator (her brief bio
below) and her advice on retreat... enjoy!
http://www.heumanwrites.com/christineskarda/pdf/BD_Spring_09_p59_Skarda.pdf
Christine Skarda is a
philosopher and scientific theorist whose professional career has
spanned the fields of philosophy, neurophysiology, and cognitive
science. She has both drawn on and contributed to the insights of
these fields in her quest to understand the nature of
perception.
This quest eventually
propelled her out of the research laboratory and onto a meditation
cushion, where Skarda turned to methods of inquiry drawn from the
Tibetan Buddhist tradition to study the perceptual process from
another angle. An ordained nun, Skarda has by now spent over a
decade and a half in meditation retreat in the United States and
India under the guidance of some of the greatest living members of
the Tibetan Buddhist tradition including His Holiness the Dalai
Lama and His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche.
She returned to America in
2007 and continues her retreat in California. Occasionally she
leaves retreat to lecture or teach to a diverse audience, offering
her scientific background to Buddhists and her Buddhist insights to
scientists and philosophers.