TEDTalk: Matthieu Ricard: How to let altruism be your guide. What is altruism? Put simply, its the wish that other people may be happy. Altruism is the key for human evolution and progress. We must care about others and have compassion for all life on our precious planet. Thanks Worldwide Spiritual Circle..! If you have more consideration for others, you will have a caring economics, where finance is at the service of society and not society at the service of finance.... If you have more consideration for others, you will make sure that you remedy inequality, that you bring some kind of well-being within society, in education, at the workplace. Otherwise, a nation that is the most powerful and the richest but everyone is miserable, whats the point? And if you have more consideration for others, you are not going to ransack that planet that we have and at the current rate, we dont have three planets to continue that way. Now, if we want a more altruistic society, we need two things: individual change and societal change. So is individual change possible? Two thousand years of contemplative study said yes, it is.. Four weeks, 20 minutes a day, of caring, mindfulness meditation already brings a structural change in the brain compared to a control group. Thats only 20 minutes a day for four weeks… ~Matthieu Ricard
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:25:10 +0000
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