The conference given by the Venerable Gonsar Rinpoche, spiritual director of the Centre of Higher Tibetan Studies „Rabten Choeling” in Switzerland, was organised by the Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University and the Faculty of Sociology and Communication with the support of the Rabten Compassionate Wisdom Association. Both Western science and Buddhist philosophy aim to understand the nature of the mind, on which the way we see and experience reality depends. In this lecture, Venerable Gonsar Rinpoche, one of the first masters to teach Buddhist teachings in the West, introduced the audience to the intersection between Western science and Buddhist philosophy, and to some ways in which we can integrate this knowledge into our daily lives. The mind and its functions are a common theme in religion and philosophy, as it is the source of all our experiences, the very characteristic that distinguishes beings from all other phenomena. Precisely because they possess mind, beings, regardless of their shape and size, occupy first place in the Buddha's teaching. (Venerable Gonsar Rinpoce)