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Buddhist and Psychological
Perspectives on Emotions and
Well-Being
Paul Ekman,1 Richard J. Davidson,2 Matthieu Ricard,3 and B. Alan Wallace4
1University of California, San Francisco; 2University of Wisconsin, Madison; 3Shechen Monastery, Katmandu, Nepal; and
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, Santa Barbara, California
ABSTRACT—Stimulated by a recent meeting between
Western psychologists and the Dalai Lama on the topic
of destructive emotions, we report on two issues: the
achievement of enduring happiness, what Tibetan Buddhists
call sukha, and the nature of afflictive and nonafflictive
emotional states and traits. A Buddhist perspective
on these issues is presented, along with discussion of the
challenges the Buddhist view raises for empirical research
and theory.
KEYWORDS—Buddhism; consciousness
Buddhist thought, which arose more than 2,000 years ago in
Asian cultures, holds assumptions that differ in important ways
from modern psychology. The......

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