{"id":55182,"date":"2014-05-22T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T02:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55182"},"modified":"2023-09-20T03:41:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:41:26","slug":"the-ucla-psychiatrist-the-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55182","title":{"rendered":"The UCLA Psychiatrist & The Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a dialogue with the Dalai Lama<\/a>, UCLA psychiatrist Daniel Siegel said (as recounted in disc one of his The Wise Heart and the Mind series): “When we’re threatened, you accentuate the difference between who is similar to you and who is dissimilar to you. Who’s in the in-group and who’s in the out-group. You take the people in the in-group, and you take better care of them. You take people in the out-group, and you treat them more harshly. That we know from a lot of studies.<\/p>\n

“The second studies show that when you are shown pictures of people who are not like you, the circuitry of compassion, empathy, you shut off those circuits. I said to His Holiness, how can we awaken ourselves as a global community during this time of threat, so we can stop shutting off our circuits of compassion and keep them alive?<\/p>\n

“He said…you cannot have compassion for your enemy from the biased form of compassion, only from the unbiased kind. He said, I’m a Buddhist, so I know a Buddhist practice [that promotes unlimited compassion]. He said it has got to be a mind training to open up this unlimited compassion… It is up to you scientists to come up with a secular ethic to promote more compassion in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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