The Buddhist and the Neuroscientist

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The Buddhist and the Neuroscientist

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The Buddhist and the Neuroscientist
By Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic, July 5, 2015

Dharamsala, India -- In 1992, the neuroscientist Richard Davidson got a challenge from the Dalai Lama. By that point, he’d spent his career asking why people respond to, in his words, “life’s slings and arrows” in different ways. Why are some people more resilient than others in the face of tragedy? And is resilience something you can gain through practice?
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The best way to activate positive-emotion circuits in the brain is through generosity,
Sotthī hontu nirantaraṃ - May you forever be well.
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