Last Updated on August 23, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
When Richard Davidson first met the Dalai Lama in 1992, he challenged him. He said: «why can t we use the same tools of modern neuroscience that we have been using to study anxiety, depression, and fear. Why can t we use those same tools to study kindness, and to sudy compassion?»
and later on:
«I want you to take the practices from our tradition, turn them into a form that enables everyone to be able to practice it in a universal form. Test this with the most vigurous tools of modern science that we have, and if we find those practices and tools to be valuable, to dissiminate them widely.»
This is Richard Davidsons assignement for the reminder of his live.
This can be found at 13 min in the following Youtube video, recorded at the Landguet Ried, Center for Mindful Living in Bern, Switzerland.
Although the research work of Richard Davidsons group is wonderful, as the Dalai Lama said:
we do not know, whether the Dalai Lama understood in detail the research of Richard Davidsons group, which the Dalai Lama himself has driggered. The results of Richard Davidsons group might all the same be helpful for practitioners of mind training, for scientists, and for the society in general, who is interested in how to eliminate suffering and how to become happy, and who wants to understand this on the level of the function of the brain.
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