Mingour Rhinoche has released a new video about “Brain on Meditation” in the year 2026:

And Swiss Pharmacologist Diego Hangartners gave a talk to students at the Federal Insitute of Technology in Zürich in the year 2024 about “Meditator’s Brain States and Consciousness Studies “:

But do they not only repeat old scientific results, also in the Book “Alltered Traits” which was published in the year 2017:

Diego Handgartner and Mingour Rhinpoche both particated in brain scan studies about meditation at least since the year 2004 when the folowing PNAS paper was published:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526201

As Matthieu Ricard, PhD. has participated as well. Ricard gave us hope for a revolution in meditation reasearch in his TED Talke he has publised in the year 2008:

But where is this revolution in meditation research happening in the 2026?

We do not know of such a revolution in meditation research. And this raises the question if these projects are a kind of work progams with a specific goal of economists. For instance with the goal to sell popular scientific books, rather than long-term scientific studies about meditation with a clear progress which is visible and which is performed by a sustainable group of scientists? Or in other words. Did Richard R. Davidsons group screw around their data in their 2004 PNAS paper?

These scientific results were first sent to the journal “Nature” according to Mathieu Ricard. But “Nature” seems to have rejected this papers. There was a discussion about artifacts by Richard R. Davidson.

Davidson saaid in interviews they verified that these data are not artifacts.

But can he convince us, as well as the journal “Nature”? Why then do other scientists not reproduce his results, or only view scientists do it?

And which which group would be worth mentioning which performs meditation research projects which are sustainable in the year 2026? And which researchers who do meditation reserach projects in the year 2026 are financed in a sustainable way by research funds which would be worth metnioning? We do not know of such.

According to the Buddhist teachings we are only completely mentally healthy if we are completely enlightended. And these Buddhist teachings are transmitted now since 2600 years. And would this happen if there would be no substance in it which would be worth to transmit for such a long time? A substance which eventually can also be confirmed by scientific studies? And these are the causes of mental suffering and how to alleviate it. But where did this scientific proof happen? We do not know of such a proof. And if we do not find it, does this not rise the question: are the scientific tools and the scientic studies which are performed in the year 2026 sufficient to be able to deliver such a scientific proof? We do not know of such a scientific proof and such scientific studies up to the present day.