--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> wrote: > > <snip> I strongly suspect that this has a great deal to do > with the differences one sees in scans of his brain. > > Training? Meditation?
NOT what TMers think of as meditation. In Buddhist techniques, *some* meditations involve going with the flow and effortlessness, and others involve developing the ability to focus, concentrate, and gain from *that* use of the brain's capacities. TMers miss all of that. > ________________________________ > From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 11:01 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is this the world's happiest man? Brain scans > reveal French monk found to have 'abnormally large capacity' for joy, and it > could be down to meditation | Mail Online > > > Â > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2225634/Is-worlds-happiest-man-Brain-scans-reveal-French-monk-abnormally-large-capacity-joy-meditation.html > > I've actually seen Matthieu Ricard do his thing, while > translating for the Dalai Lama or other Tibetan teachers, > and have always wondered how much of his "brain plasticity" > is the result of how "simultaneous translation" is done > in that context. > > Translating for a Tibetan Buddhist teacher is *NOT* the > way you see it done at the UN. Instead of translating > phrase by phrase, the translator sits quietly beside > the teacher, listening but taking no notes, and allowing > the teacher to speak as long as he wants. Then, when the > teacher pauses, the translator relates what the teacher > said, in a different language. > > The teacher could have been talking for two minutes or > twelve, but the translators seem to always (according > to people I know who are bilingual in Tibetan and English) > spot-on, and perfect. Nothing left out, nothing added, > and nothing mistranslated. Being chosen to be the trans- > lator for a Tibetan teacher is considered a teaching > in itself, developing the ability to DO THIS. > > I strongly suspect that this has a great deal to do with > the differences one sees in scans of his brain. >
