{"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 &#038; The Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a dialogue with the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dalai_Lama\">Dalai Lama<\/a>, UCLA psychiatrist Daniel Siegel said (as recounted in disc one of his The Wise Heart and the Mind series): &#8220;When we&#8217;re threatened, you accentuate the difference between who is similar to you and who is dissimilar to you. Who&#8217;s in the in-group and who&#8217;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<p>&#8220;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<p>&#8220;He said&#8230;you cannot have compassion for your enemy from the biased form of compassion, only from the unbiased kind. He said, I&#8217;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&#8230; It is up to you scientists to come up with a secular ethic to promote more compassion in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a dialogue with the Dalai Lama, UCLA psychiatrist Daniel Siegel said (as recounted in disc one of his The Wise Heart and the Mind series): &#8220;When we&#8217;re threatened, you accentuate the difference between who is similar to you and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29626,29613,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dalai-lama","category-daniel-siegel","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55182"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152367,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55182\/revisions\/152367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}