Last Updated on February 3, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
In one of his YouTube videos, Richard Davidson said, that he is looking for the causes of suffering, and how we can reach the end of it, the end of mental suffering. How this can be done is written in the Buddhist teachings. There are instructions there how to do this. These teachings have been transmitted further since 2500 years. If they would not have helped people, would they have been transmitted since 2500 years?
Richard Davidson is looking for the end of mental suffering on a scientific way. But we ask ourselves, did he find it? Did he find the scientific causes of it, and did he find a scientific way how to end our suffering?
The Buddhist teachings teach a way, but it is way that has not been proven scientifically. Also Richard Davidson did not proof the effectiveness of the Buddhist teachings scientifically. But do we need this proof? If there are self-experienced teachers there, which can help us to find the end of our suffering? And do we need a scientific proof, if their way of teaching it to us works?
Also Thich Naht Hahn found a way to the end of suffering, and taught it to us in his way. In this YouTube video, Thich Naht Hahn teaches us his way to find the end of our suffering: