Seeking Serenity: Part 2

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In the second part of our series on the science of meditation, Richard Davidson continues his endeavor to unite seemingly opposite ways of understanding the mind. Plus, he shares the latest research on mindfulness, and the unexpected ways it can benefit us.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:03.0	Richard Davidson was a 22 year old graduate student
0:06.5	when he went to India to attend an intense meditation retreat.
0:12.0	He quickly found the journey had a surprise in store for him.
0:16.0	The bus that we were taking up into the Himalayas got stuck in a landslide which was pretty scary actually.
0:25.0	Ritchie and the other passengers found themselves pinned on the edge of a cliff.
0:30.0	On one side was a mountain wall, on the other a sheer drop.
0:35.0	Rocks rain down around them and rain pounded against the bus window.
0:40.0	They felt paralyzed.
0:42.0	And then... They felt paralyzed and then
0:44.0	This unbelievable scene transpired where another bus pulled up from the other side and we
0:52.0	exchanged we literally took our belongings we and we
0:55.0	walked over this landslide into this other bus and this other bus on these
1:00.0	single lane narrow roads that are literally 4 or 5,000 feet drop with no rail
1:09.6	had to go backward for maybe a mile or two until it got to a place where it can turn around.
1:17.0	That trip to India would eventually prompt Ritchie to see his own life as a bridge across a divided road.
1:29.0	One side of the road was represented by his teachers at Harvard and mainstream psychology.
1:35.7	The other was represented by his meditation teachers in the United States and India, including
1:41.2	eventually the Dalai Lama.
1:44.0	Both the psychologists and the meditators were engaged with the life of the mind,
1:49.0	but from different sides.
1:51.0	The scientists wanted to study the brain from the outside in, using
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