Last Updated on January 10, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Where not both of them looking for the causes of mental suffering and how to alleviate it?
Richard R. Davidson was using brain scanners for it
“I envision a day when mental exercise will be as much a part of our daily lives as physical exercise and personal hygiene.”
Richard Davidson, Center of Healthy Minds, Center Founder and Director
https://centerhealthyminds.org
Milarepa was looking in a cave for a solution
“The stunning lesson in impermanence gave Milarepa the final push he needed to follow Marpa’s command to meditate in mountain retreat. He stayed there for many years, until his clothes turned to rags, his bones protruded, and the nettles he ate turned his skin green. Hunters and thieves who came upon him thought he was a ghost. When he went begging for food, his uncle, aunt, and neighbors attacked him, and he barely escaped. His sister, who had also become a beggar, wept in misery at his apparently even sorrier state.”
https://www.lionsroar.com/the-life-of-milarepa
Is the story of Milarepa not still very interesting about 1 000 years after he died? But what about Richard R. Davidson? Will people in 1 000 years still know who he was?