12.12.05
Dalai Llama Gets a Meditation Lesson.
This article on wired talks about another one of the Dalai Lama’s talks: Dalai Lama Gets Meditation Lesson. A group of scientists told the Dalai Lama and an audience of 2,500 about recent experiments showing meditation can strengthen the immune system, prevent relapse in people with depression and lower cortisol (associated with stress) levels. The article is pretty short with little other interesting things. At the end of the article, it states:
While Western researchers are exploring the effects of meditation on physical health, Alan Wallace, a leading Tibetan scholar and one of the Dalai Lama’s translators, pointed out that when faced with physical ailments, Tibetans traditionally turned to doctors or healers, not to meditation.
The purpose of meditation, added the Dalai Lama, is not to cure physical ailments, but to free people from emotional suffering.
john said,
March 15, 2006 at 12:36 am
This is an example of the old bugbear: dualism – are the mind and the body seperate entities ? – if the mind is calm will that not be beneficial to the body ?