Neuroscience

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NewsLeek: Fifth Noble Truth Discovered

LOS ANGELES—The International Mindfulness Foundation (IMF) today announced the discovery of a fifth noble truth, overturning the ancient Buddhist belief that there are only four. Speaking at a press conference at UCLA, IMF president Hugh Briss…

By P. B. Law

How did Buddhism get the brain right?

David Weisman writes in SEED Magazine: Both Buddhism and neuroscience converge on a similar point of view: The way it feels isn’t how it is. There is no permanent, constant soul in the background. Even our…

By Tricycle

Meditators have more brains

Psychology Today reports on a study that indicates that meditators have more gray matter where it counts: A study published in NeuroImage presents findings by a group of researchers at UCLA who used high-resolution magnetic resonance…

By Tricycle

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