To many non-believers, Buddhism is the “good” kind of religion, one that doesn’t start wars and has powerful things to say on the mindfulness and mental self control we all seek by one method or another. RedOrbit spoke to Dr. Rick Hanson, psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author, to discuss the science of what was going on inside Buddha’s brain, and how we…
The neuroscience behind Buddhist enlightenment
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