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Mediation and Mindfullness
Meditation is the cause of Mindfullness......
...... Mindfullness is the cause of wisdom,
the wisdoms is the cause of Nivavana.
...... Mindfullness is the cause of wisdom,
the wisdoms is the cause of Nivavana.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Spiritual State
To focus the mind and increase awareness of self, Shingon Budhists like Souei Sakamoto practice takigyo, chanting for hours while standing in frigid waterfalls at the Oieasan Nissekiji Temple in Yoyama, Japan
For 2,500 years Buddhists have employed such strict training techniques to guide their mental state away from destructive emotions and toward a more compassionate, happier frame of being, Surred by the cascade of new evidence for brain's plastictiy, Western neuroscientists have taken a keen interest. Can meditation literally change the mind?
For the past several years Richard Davidson and his colleagues at the university of Wisconsin-Medison have been studying brain activity in Tibetan monks, both in meditative and non-meditative states. Davidson's group had shown earlier that people who are inclined to fall prey to negative emotions displayed a pattern of persistent activity in regions of their right prefrontal cortex. In those with more positive temperaments the activity occurred in the left prefrontal cortex instead. When Davidson ran the experiment on senior Tibetan lama skilled in meditation, the lama's baseline of activity proved to ve much father to the left of anyone previously tested. Judging from this one study, at least, he was squantifiably the happiest man in the world.
Davidson recently tested the prefrontal activity in some volunteers from a high-tech company in Wisconsin. One group of volunteers then received eight weeks of training in meditaion, while acontrol group did not. All the participants also received flu shots.
By the end of the study, those who had meditated showed a pronounced shift in brain activity toward the left, "happier," frontal cortex. The meditators also showed a healthier immune response to the flu shot, suggesting taht the training affected the body's health as well as the mind's.
"You don't have to become a Buddhist," says the Dalai Lama himself, who is closely following the work of western cognitive scientists like Davidson. "Everybody has the potential to lead a peaceful, meaningful life"
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From . James Shreeve. "What is in your mind; Spiritual State." National Geographic. March 2005: 31
For 2,500 years Buddhists have employed such strict training techniques to guide their mental state away from destructive emotions and toward a more compassionate, happier frame of being, Surred by the cascade of new evidence for brain's plastictiy, Western neuroscientists have taken a keen interest. Can meditation literally change the mind?
For the past several years Richard Davidson and his colleagues at the university of Wisconsin-Medison have been studying brain activity in Tibetan monks, both in meditative and non-meditative states. Davidson's group had shown earlier that people who are inclined to fall prey to negative emotions displayed a pattern of persistent activity in regions of their right prefrontal cortex. In those with more positive temperaments the activity occurred in the left prefrontal cortex instead. When Davidson ran the experiment on senior Tibetan lama skilled in meditation, the lama's baseline of activity proved to ve much father to the left of anyone previously tested. Judging from this one study, at least, he was squantifiably the happiest man in the world.
Davidson recently tested the prefrontal activity in some volunteers from a high-tech company in Wisconsin. One group of volunteers then received eight weeks of training in meditaion, while acontrol group did not. All the participants also received flu shots.
By the end of the study, those who had meditated showed a pronounced shift in brain activity toward the left, "happier," frontal cortex. The meditators also showed a healthier immune response to the flu shot, suggesting taht the training affected the body's health as well as the mind's.
"You don't have to become a Buddhist," says the Dalai Lama himself, who is closely following the work of western cognitive scientists like Davidson. "Everybody has the potential to lead a peaceful, meaningful life"
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From . James Shreeve. "What is in your mind; Spiritual State." National Geographic. March 2005: 31
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