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anatta
05-06-2016, 07:46 AM
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The Dalai Lama, who tirelessly preaches inner peace while chiding people for their selfish, materialistic ways, has commissioned scientists for a lofty mission: to help turn secular audiences into more self-aware, compassionate humans.

That is, of course, no easy task. So the Dalai Lama ordered up something with a grand name to go with his grand ambitions: a comprehensive Atlas of Emotions to help the more than seven billion people on the planet navigate the morass of their feelings in order to attain peace and happiness.

“It is my duty to publish such work,” the Dalai Lama said.

To create this “map of the mind,” as he called it, the Dalai Lama reached out to a source Hollywood had used to plumb the inner workings of the human psyche.

Specifically, he commissioned his good friend Paul Ekman — a psychologist who helped advise the creators of Pixar’s “Inside Out,” an animated film set inside a girl’s head — to map out the range of human sentiments. Dr. Ekman later distilled them into the five basic emotions depicted in the movie, from anger to enjoyment.

Dr. Ekman’s daughter, Eve, also a psychologist, worked on the project as well, with the goal of producing an interactive guide to human emotions that anyone with an Internet connection could study in a quest for self-understanding, calm and constructive action.

“We have, by nature or biologically, this destructive emotion, also constructive emotion,” the Dalai Lama said. “This innerness, people should pay more attention to, from kindergarten level up to university level. This is not just for knowledge, but in order to create a happy human being. Happy family, happy community and, finally, happy humanity.”

The Dalai Lama paid Dr. Ekman at least $750,000 to develop the project, which began with a request several years ago.

“ ‘When we wanted to get to the New World, we needed a map,’ ” Dr. Ekman recalled the Dalai Lama telling him. “ ‘So make a map of emotions so we can get to a calm state.’ ”

As a first step, Dr. Ekman conducted a survey of 149 scientists (emotion scientists, neuroscientists and psychologists who are published leaders in their fields) to see where there was consensus about the nature of emotions, the moods or states they produce, and related areas.

Based on the survey, Dr. Ekman concluded that there were five broad categories of emotions — anger, fear, disgust, sadness and enjoyment — and that each had an elaborate subset of emotional states, triggers, actions and moods. He then took these findings to a cartography and data visualization firm, Stamen, to depict them in a visual and, hopefully, useful way.

“If it isn’t fun, it’s a failure,” Dr. Ekman said. “It’s got to be fun for people to use.”

Stamen’s founder, Eric Rodenbeck, has created data visualizations for Google, Facebook and MTV, as well as maps showing climate change and rising oceans. But he said the Atlas was the most challenging project he had ever worked on because it was “built around knowledge and wisdom rather than data.”


Not surprisingly, getting scientists to reach a unified understanding of human emotions was difficult.

Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, also counseled Pixar on establishing and depicting the emotional characters for “Inside Out.” He has even advised Facebook on its emoticons.

While Dr. Keltner took part in Dr. Ekman’s survey, the two are not in complete agreement on the number of core emotions. Dr. Keltner said that the findings the Atlas was based on were not without flaws, but that he saw the project as a good step.

“The survey questions could have allowed for more gray areas,” he said. “But it’s important to take stock of what the scientific consensus is in the field.”

Dr. Ekman emphasized that the Atlas was not a scientific work intended for peer review.

“This is not a science project,” he said. “It is a visualization for what we think has been learned from scientific studies. It’s a transformative process, a work of explanation.”

Whether science project or tool for self-enlightenment, the Dalai Lama wants to keep religion out of it.

“If we see this research work as relying on religious belief or tradition, then it automatically becomes limited,” he said. “Even if you pray to God, pray to Buddha, emotionally, very nice, very good. But every problem, we have created. So I think even God or Buddha cannot do much.”

The Dalai Lama said he hoped the Atlas could be a tool for cultivating good in the world by defeating the bad within us.

“Ultimately, our emotion is the real troublemaker,” he said. “We have to know the nature of that enemy.”


The Dalai Lama said he had been encouraged by President Obama’s reaction to the project when he told him about it in India.

“Obama seems, I think, to show more interest about our inner value,” he said. “In the past, compassion was something of a sign of weakness, or anger a sign of power, sign of strength. Basic human nature is more compassionate. That’s the real basis of our hope.”

While excited about the Atlas, however, the 80-year-old Dalai Lama will probably not be clicking around the interactive site. He is much more comfortable turning the printed pages of a version that was custom-made for him.

“Technology is for my next body,” he once quipped to the researchers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/world/dalai-lama-website-atlas-of-emotions.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Lammergeier
06-12-2016, 10:53 PM
He recently had said this to say:

http://s33.postimg.org/ohzfa9o5b/LLaammaa.jpg

“But on the other hand, there are too many at the moment… Europe, Germany in particular, cannot become an Arab country, Germany is Germany”.

“There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult.”

The Dalai Lama added that “from a moral point of view too, I think that the refugees should only be admitted temporarily”.

“The goal should be that they return and help rebuild their countries.”

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/31/dalai-lama-eu-taking-many-migrants-germany-cannot-become-arab-country/



A mind is useful for informing ones own heart.



"After failing to destroy the 1,700-year-old sandstone statues of Buddha with anti-aircraft and tank fire, the Taliban brought a lorryload of dynamite from Kabul. A Western observer said: "They drilled holes into the torsos of the two statues and then placed dynamite charges inside the holes to blow them up."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1326063/After-1700-years-Buddhas-fall-to-Taliban-dynamite.html



But the heart has the longest memory...

Lammergeier
06-12-2016, 11:48 PM
I understang what he's saying. Did you?

anatta
06-13-2016, 11:05 AM
I understang what he's saying. Did you?I think so. But His Holiness often speaks on more then one level.
On the face of it the process of visualization ( hard data) helps to use more senses to gain awareness.

Just like any meditation on ideas the greater the awareness, the greater the understanding, gives the greater ability to mentally prioritize.


Ultimately, our emotion is the real troublemaker,” he said. “We have to know the nature of that enemy.”
^ basic Buddhist ideas of acceptance and non-resistence. Observation leads to equanimity

evince
06-13-2016, 11:13 AM
he is merely a religious leader


they are fallible

anatta
06-13-2016, 11:15 AM
he is merely a religious leader


they are fallibleBuddhism is not based on revealed text ( word of God). If it's not testable, it's not knowable.

evince
06-13-2016, 11:18 AM
its a worldwide organized religion

It still provides a power structure that is climbable huh

anatta
06-13-2016, 11:25 AM
its a worldwide organized religion

It still provides a power structure that is climbable huhnot really. there is the concept of bodhisattva -but that is gained by practice, not advancement over others.

evince
06-13-2016, 11:27 AM
you are fooling your self if you dont think some humans see him as infallible

anatta
06-13-2016, 11:57 AM
^

any view or belief must be tested by the results it yields when put into practice; and — to guard against the possibility of any bias or limitations in one's understanding of those results — they must further be checked against the experience of people who are wise. The ability to question and test one's beliefs in an appropriate way is called appropriate attention
Kalama Sutta: To the Kalamas
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.065.than.html


"Now, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness' — then you should enter & remain in them.
^ the Buddha

Legion Troll
06-13-2016, 12:15 PM
Buddhists are killing Muslims in Myanmar. :)

Leonthecat
06-13-2016, 12:26 PM
Buddhists are killing Muslims in Myanmar. :)

It's true;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HHrIqaI6YM

evince
06-13-2016, 12:34 PM
It's true;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HHrIqaI6YM

pure fucking evil

Legion Troll
06-13-2016, 12:36 PM
Unless Dalai Damocles definitively denounces the death-dealing, he is defending the dangerous deadliness!:rofl2:

anatta
06-13-2016, 02:21 PM
Buddhists are killing Muslims in Myanmar. :)Buddhists aren't 'saints" on earth.
Many monks were warriors too. Warrior Monk Traditionshttp://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393521/obo-9780195393521-0180.xml

Legion Troll
06-13-2016, 02:29 PM
Buddhists aren't 'saints" on earth.
Many monks were warriors too. Warrior Monk Traditionshttp://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393521/obo-9780195393521-0180.xml

Buddhists are killers.

Unless Buddhist leaders renounce the terrorism, they are complicit. :)

evince
06-13-2016, 02:30 PM
the uneducated who follow can be fooled


why are you being an idiot about this


OH you are brain washed to think Your religion is infallible

anatta
06-13-2016, 04:29 PM
Buddhists are killers.

Unless Buddhist leaders renounce the terrorism, they are complicit. :)Dalai Lama is only the political head and spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism.

Legion Troll
06-13-2016, 06:27 PM
Dalai Lama is only the political head and spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism.


Damocles is the leader of JPP Buddhism. :)

anatta
06-14-2016, 08:11 AM
Damocles is the leader of JPP Buddhism. :)does he wear a yellow hat?
http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat6/sub34/item221.html

Legion Troll
06-14-2016, 08:15 AM
does he wear a yellow hat?
http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat6/sub34/item221.html

Not in the pictures I've seen.

DigitalDave
06-15-2016, 11:51 AM
Buddhists can also be brainwashed... hmph!

Minister of Truth
06-16-2016, 03:19 AM
FREE TIBET

anatta
06-16-2016, 07:06 AM
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. (Dalai Lama)

Obama meets Dalai Lama in spite of China protest


U.S. President Barack Obama met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, at the White House on Wednesday despite a warning by China that it would damage diplomatic relations.

The meeting came at a time of heightened tensions between the United States and China over Beijing’s assertive pursuit of territorial claims in East Asia.

Obama's fourth White House meeting with the Dalai Lama in the past eight years took place in the White House residence, instead of the Oval Office where the president normally meets world leaders.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the choice of the residence emphasized the "personal nature of their meeting."

He said Obama thanked the Dalai Lama for his condolences for the victims of Sunday's mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Earnest added that Obama had in the past spoken of his "warm personal feelings" for the Dalai Lama, appreciation of his teachings and belief "in preserving Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic traditions."

At the same time, Earnest said the U.S. position of considering Tibet part of China had not changed.

In an interview with Fox News later on Wednesday, the Dalai Lama said he and Obama talked about the current situation in Tibet.

He denied he was seeking independence and that it was in Tibet's interests to remain part of China, "provided we should have full right for preservation of our own culture, or rich Buddhist knowledge, knowledge of Buddhist philosophy, these things."

The Dalai Lama also noted in the interview that Chinese President Xi Jinping had said Buddhism was an important part of Chinese culture.

"
So this is something new, for a leader of a Communist party, you see, mentioning some positive things about leader of Buddhism, wonderful."


'TIBET CARD'

China's Foreign Ministry said earlier it had lodged diplomatic representations with the United States over the planned meeting, saying it would damage Chinese-U.S. ties.

China considers the Dalai Lama a dangerous separatist, and ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the meeting would encourage "separatist forces." He urged Washington to abide by its promises to recognize that Tibet is part of China and cease any support for Tibet independence.

A commentary on China's official news agency, Xinhua, accused Washington of breaking its promise not to support Tibet's independence by going ahead with the meeting. It said that had "seriously jeopardized China-U.S. relations, and deeply hurt the Chinese people's feelings."

"Supporting Tibet's independence is a clear interference in China's internal affairs and is in gross violation of the norms of international relations. Playing the 'Tibet card' shows the U.S. government is overdrawing its political credit and international prestige."

When Obama last met the Dalai Lama at the White House in 2014, he angered China by vowing "strong support" for Tibetans' human rights.

The Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet into exile in India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, said in the Fox News interview that China would eventually have to become more open.

"So ... Chinese people, including leaders, I think are getting some new experiences, so things will change," he said, adding there was no future in maintaining such tight social control.


'TRUST, FRIENDSHIP ESSENTIAL'

In an interview with Reuters on Monday, the Dalai Lama said the disputes between China and its neighbors in the South China Sea should be resolved through dialogue.

He said China faced no threat from other Asian countries and as a big and ancient nation should pursue reconciliation and friendship. “Long term, it’s in China’s own interests,” he said. “Trust and friendship with neighboring countries is essential; including the United States also.”

On Wednesday, a Chinese observation ship shadowed the U.S. aircraft carrier John C. Stennis in the Western Pacific, the carrier's commander said, as it joined warships from Japan and India for drills close to waters Beijing considers its backyard.


Japan and the United States worry that China is extending its influence into the Western Pacific with submarines and surface vessels as it pushes territorial claims in the neighboring South China Sea, expanding and building on islands.

China has been angered by what it views as provocative U.S. military patrols close to the islands. The United States says the patrols are to protect freedom of navigation.

On Tuesday, Beijing also warned Washington to stick to its “one-China” policy over Taiwan ahead of an overseas trip by Taipei’s new president, Tsai Ing-wen, who will transit though Miami from June 24 to 25 and Los Angeles from June 30 to July 1 on her way to and from Panama and Paraguay.

A U.S. State Department spokeswoman, Anna Richey-Allen, said the visit would be “private and unofficial” and the transits handled in accordance with the “unofficial nature of the (U.S.) relationship with Taiwan.”

“There is no change to the U.S. ‘One-China’ policy,” she said, adding that Tsai would be greeted as a courtesy in Miami and Los Angeles by officials of the American Institute in Taiwan, a de facto embassy that handles U.S. relations with Taiwan.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-daililama-idUSKCN0Z1221