Last Updated on September 6, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Ajahn Amaro writes that in the Buddhist tradition you are not completely sane until you are fully enlightened:
https://petergamma.org/blog/page/11/
In this video we learn from Dilgo Kihenze Rhinpoche who has spent around 20 years of his life in solitary retreat:
that Shantideva said that Buddha said
Happiness comes trough taming ones mind
Shantideva furthermore said that it is important that we begin our practice…by taming our minds
… and that we should … train in the discipline of taming the mind.
Shantideva also said that finally we will reach the ultimate stages of the path
which we suppose means enlightenement,
which according to the Buddhist tradition means completely sane, completely mentally sane.
What is the state of affairs of the scientific research regarding this topic?
We deal with this topic since many years, but we did not study the scientific literature about it in detail. And we did not read «Altered Traits» in detail either. But we got a main message from «Altered Traits» which is a scientifically proofen statement, and that is that a daily meditation practice of 20 minutes can change our brains in an objectively measurable way. But if there would be more scientific knowledge regarding this topic at the level of a Nobel prize, would we not be one of the first to know? But we do not know anything about such a break-trough. But we think it would be a break-trough at the level of a Nobel prize, if someone manages to scientifically proof that mental health can be trained with the consequence that for instance Swiss medical doctors can start to teach their patients a scientifically proven way how mental health can be trained.