The documentary Shamata is a project that is born out of the latest neuroscience research that took place inside the Deprung Loseling monastery. It came to being out of a collaboration with the Salamanca University and the monastery situated in the South of India. It is vital to collaborate across disciplines to understand the knowledge of the human mind. The intent is to generate knowledge, drawing from scientific tools that can generate a language easy to udnerstand for the Westerners and to shed light to the work done inside monasteries. The hope is to appreciate the knowledge and techniques that can help us cultivate our mental states that bring us harmony, peace and happiness.