[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

2012-11-01 Thread emptybill
Most Tibetan translators are interpreters of the uttered paragraphs which they remember from the just finished discourse of a Lama. Most preform condensations of the Lama's words with the resultant uncertainty about total fidelity to his actual message. Matthieu Ricard is a Gelugpa mouthpiece for

[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

2012-10-31 Thread turquoiseb
--- 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

Re: [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

2012-10-31 Thread Emily Reyn
snip I strongly suspect that this has a great deal to do withthe differences one sees in scans of his brain. Training?  Meditation?   From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 11:01 AM

[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

2012-10-31 Thread turquoiseb
--- 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

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2012-10-31 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- 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