Thich Nhat Hanh on Buddha’s enlightenment Once the jail-keeper was gone, the jail would disappear and never rebuild again”. The only thing to do was to seize the jail-keeper and see his true face. The suffering of birth, old age, sickness, and death only made the prison walls thicker. Clouded by endless waves of deluded thoughts, the mind had falsely divided reality into subject and object, self and others, existence and nonexistence, birth and death, and from these discriminations arose wrong views-the prisons of feelings, craving, grasping, and becoming.
Because of ignorance, his mind had been obscured, just like the moon and stars hidden by the storm clouds. “ Gautama felt as though a prison which had confined him for thousands of lifetimes had broken open. Exercise the brain should be mandatory in any school or workplace, at least equally important as exercising the body. Besides, several other benefits were found, such as increased and better attention, reduced stress level and those who meditate regularly improve mental health because of the changes in brain activity. The morphology or change in brain activity during meditation is elevating effects of mood measured associated with positive feelings. However, now through scientific research and investigation, using various neurobiological methods such as brain scans Tibetan Buddhist tradition relegated to mindfulness techniques proven that their practice is capable of elevating a sufficient active reward module in the brain that measured favourably, regardless of the external environment.
Many, particularly westerners, also professionals such as people working within the health sector have a hard time understanding the enormous potential of meditation techniques.
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The second post last in the series on happiness discussed happiness as a tool to measure wealth instead of money (GDP), furthermore, presented a few ways to improve our own and the well-being of others through different methods, especially meditation. Meditation, a scientifically approved method for increased happiness
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