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Loading... Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (2003)by Daniel Goleman, Dalai Lama
   Wisdom (7) No current Talk conversations about this book.  jzacsh | Sep 9, 2020 |  Good synthesis of East and West... (  ) Brightman | Nov 21, 2017 | This is not an easy read. This is not the kind of material that I breezed through and I've found that while the rational and logical aspects kept me rooted, some realizations along the way were pretty painful. I read this with a journal next to me. And I'm not finished reading it yet. The book offers a lot of self-reflection and one of the most poignant takeaways I received from this is how the Dalai Lama had to take a break during one seminar when he learned that Westerners hated themselves. He never thought that anyone can be capable of that. I can read this over and over again, but in different phases of my life. Really grateful for this book. ( ) autumnleaving | Sep 27, 2013 | Listened to audiobook. Found this to be a fascinating account of how "Western" science can now measure the cost of destructive emotions on human life and how Buddhist traditions, along with other religious traditions, have developed considerable practice and techniques for reducing the experience of destructive emotions in one's life. In particular, brain scans of an advanced buddhist monk provided astounding evidence of bodily functions responding to a variety of meditative states. The book is a fairly detailed account of a multi-day conference of presentations by Western academics and response by the Dalai Lama and fellow Buddhist practiioners. tjcasserly | Aug 3, 2010 | Basically a book-length report from another Mind and Life conference, this one from 2000, but a fair bit longer and more detailed than the last one I read (Gentle Bridges), in that the narration includes background goings-on, facial expressions, assorted sidetracks and much more extensive reports from the afternoon sessions (mornings were for presentations, afternoons for discussion). The conference focused on craving, anger and delusion: their origins, natures and effects, whether and how they can ever be beneficial, and what people can do about them. Goleman, the Dalai Lama and a bunch of philosophers, Buddhist scholars and various western brain/mind scientists got together for a series of talks and discussions, examining areas where Buddhism could learn from science and vice versa. There was an overriding effort to be practical and constructive — no easy thing when so many of the subjects being examined prompted conceptual and semantic conflict, not just between east and west but within disciplines. Goleman plays up his friend Paul Ekman's personal demons (a temper related back to father issues) a bit heavy-handedly, maybe for dramatic effect, but overall he recounts the experience in good faith. There's also an interesting biographical chapter on Tenzin Gyatso, including an account of his student days. All in all, a very good read. (  ) stancarey | May 21, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
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These poignant and relevant dialogues, held just a few months prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001, forcefully put to rest the misconception that the realms of science and spirituality are fundamentally at odds with one another. Questions such as Why are rational and intelligent people often at the root of destructive behavior? and How can the emotions that produce violence be controlled? are the basis of these dialogues between the Dalai Lama and a select group of Buddhists, Western psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who gathered together to elucidate, understand, and combat destructive emotions. Estos diálogos relevantes y profundos que tuvieron lugar pocos meses antes de los atentados del 11 de septiembre, desacreditan la idea falsa de que la ciencia y la espiritualidad no pueden existir juntas. Preguntas como ¿Por qué personas aparentemente racionales e inteligentes se portan destructivamente? y ¿Cómo pueden controlar las emociones que conducen a impulsos violentos? son los temas de este diálogo entre el Dalai Lama y un selecto grupo de eruditos budistas, psicólogos occidentales, neurocientíficos y filósofos, reunidos para dilucidar, comprender y combatir las emociones destructivas. No library descriptions found. 
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2nd read through: good lessons and ideas. Particularly interesting to an atheist. (