“Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.” FeelsPersonsSufferingBrainEmpathyAreasProvenNeuroscience Author:Matthieu Ricard
“If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.” IfsWorldWayBodyCertainResultsBrainQualityCompassionMeditationAmountMethodImpactTrainPerceiveEach DayNew WaysOur ThoughtsNeuroscienceEvaluateCultivatingVerify Author:Matthieu Ricard
“When you engage in compassion, and you hear a distressing sound, like someone calling for help, there is an activation in an area of the brain called the insular, which has to do with empathy and altruism, that is vastly more activated than in non-meditators.” HelpingSoundBrainCompassionCallingEmpathyAreasAltruismDistressingActivation Author:Matthieu Ricard
“Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.” WantMindPersonsTwoIdeasHappensHateBrainObjectsTrainingOppositesHarmFactorsLove HateTwo OppositesMind Training Author:Matthieu Ricard
“Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.” BrainMeditationTree Author:Matthieu Ricard
