2,500 years ago, without fMRI machines, research labs, or any understanding of neuroscience, one man single-handedly figured out how to end all human suffering.
The Buddha created the world’s best mental health program. We now call it Vipaassana.
And today, with all the research grants, thousands of scientists have studied how to end human suffering. And almost always, they have ended up validating things that the Buddha figured out.
Even some of the modern psychotherapy techniques (e.g., exposure therapy) are uncannily similar to Vipassana.
But is this for real or just a placebo effect?
In Prof Richard Davidson’s lab at the University of Wisconsin, they famously put monks in fMRI machines and found that indeed, long-term meditators go lasting changes in their brains.
This is real stuff. It is hard, but it works.
Given all the developments in AI, human biology, neuroscience, and so on, we don’t know what will happen in the next 2,500 years.
But if the human species is still around, as best as we can tell, human suffering will be intact. And the cutting-edge technology to resolve the suffering will still be the same — Vipassana.
Some things never change. Learn them.
– Rajan