Dacher Keltner, PhD, Matthieu Ricard, PhD and Michelle Shiota, PhD
Understanding Our Emotions and Our Potential for Goodness Panel Discussion
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About Dacher Keltner, PhD
About Matthieu Ricard, PhD
You can learn more about his work by visiting his website.
About Michelle Shiota, PhD
You can find out more about her research here.
About Eve Ekman, PhD
To learn more about her work you can visit the Atlas of Emotions, an online website for emotional awareness commissioned by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and co-created by Eve and Paul Ekman. You can also learn more about a contemplative science training for learning emotional balance that was founded by Alan Wallace and Paul Ekman and is currently lead by Eve Ekman and a global teacher network at Cultivating Emotion Balance.
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Awesomely amazing. Humanity needs this and we are responsible to serve as sharers of this RARE GEM topical issue on emotion. Glad to be part of this submit. Lots of Love and joy to you all.
I am so happy to in your Talks and Teaching,
This is great and especially when I heard “Basic Goodness” and “Emotional Balance”…It is really enlightening to hear how Modern and Buddhist Psychological can help balance every emotions. Thank you for the sharing. It is a great blessing to be able to be part of this summit.
Impressed by hearing how anger can make a true difference once we the skill to manage the emotion from the right place has been adopted. Thank you very much @Michelle 🙏🏻
Three ideas that I value a lot. 1) To see the beauty in every person.
2) Eudaimonia correctly understood and practiced.
3) The banality of the good. If we observe all these good, small deeds that seem natural, trivial to us, we realize how good it is in pur life.
Thankyou all for a clear, articulate, insightful discussion regarding human emotions. I will certainly be using some of your sharing’s in my work and my life. Totally agree that we should start at a place of acknowledging the basic goodness in all humans.
Absolutely wonderful session. I was glued, listening, and then I heard it again, to take notes. Eve is really good in encapsulating and highlighting what each speaker talked about. I also appreciated the ‘takeaways’ at the end, and how we can try to use this new wisdom as we go forth into the world.
Thanks to all the panelists and the organisers of this summit.
Amazing conversation and great learning on ohana, compassion, emotions and togetherness. NAMASTE everyone 🌼
Note: Thank you for the subtitles and offering the recordings to people who are outside USA based giving the opportunity to also re-listen to some sections over and over again.
Também sou grata pelas legendas e pelo profissionalismo. O conteúdo extremamente inspirador. Me too I am thankful for the captions and your professionalism. The contents are very inspiring. Thank you very much.
That was so enriching a discussion. I love the idea that the goodness is in every human being, I feel if we only cultivated this we would have a better world, one family. Wow. Contemplation, loving kindness it starts with me. It is so good to hear of the work being done as we could be overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. Thank you
Thank you. This is so clear and beautiful
Q.2. I’m hearing Lani and Matthieu before agreeing on a definition of HAPPINESS they began. But so many define Happiness as the high energy vibrational versus the Buddha defining sukha as an inner residual contentment that followed uplifting Joy when it faded away to Tranquility and tranquility fading out into residual natural inner Happiness.
Then Matthieu came back to point this out… Yeah!
Concerning Happiness— stay clear
Happiness is a bi-product of the way we live….
Impermanence must be accepted because it is universal.
MN-131 Bhaddekaratta Sutta—>
Let not a person revive the past
Or on the future build his hopes
For the past has been left behind
And the future is not here….
———
Cause for thought… eh?
PEace and contentment comes from accepting the Ocean tides.
Concerning Happiness— stay clear
Happiness is a bi-product of the way we live….
Impermanence must be accepted because it is universal.
MN-131 Bhaddekaratta Sutta—>
Let not a person revive the past
Or on the future build his hopes
For the past has been left behind
And the future is not here….
———
Cause for thought… eh
Could we have the traduction in french?
Such an enlightening conversation on ways to cultivate luminous state of being, loving kindness compassion, notice our negativity bias and engage with our destructive emotions like anger in a more wholesome way.
Gratitude to the experts and the organizers.
What a extraordinary mensage to the world.
A call just to we remember our natural state.
Thank you!!
Hard to understand Dr Ricard’s speech.. So,I missed about half of his content. Otherwise, it is all stimulating, inspiring and more than hopeful.
It also felt a bit fragmented.
Interesting conversation but I would appreciate if the many speakers on these panels would work to contrast any “difference” (even if their subtle) in their conceptions of emotions, the role they play, the potential “antidotes”, and the intersection of “thought” with emotions and their management and cultivation.
Thank for doing this.
It was indeed a very interesting sharing by all the esteem speakers.
Points to ponder for me are
Our relation with our emotions and syncing it with the reality to understand its purpose.
Outcome comes from our intentions
The connection between our motivation and action.
True understanding of our happiness.
Absolutely enriching discussion.
Thanks again.
QUESTION: How does the dynamic on our mind work through seeking problems and well being?
as gravações são só em inglês ou tem traduzidas também?
So wonderful. Thank you to all!
Thank you so much for your positive view of human beings, and your encouraging words
I love Lani’s distinction that emotions are neither constructive nor destructive but, rather, what we do with them can be constructive or destructive. It seems that the key, then, is to discover the information/wisdom/skill set that each emotion holds so that our cognitive mind can interpret their intentions and work with them as allies. So far, the best book I’ve come across on that topic is “The Language of Emotions” by Karla McLaren. There is as yet no research to back her observations but, in practice (as a mental health therapist), I find them incredibly useful and consistent across time, people, and situations.
Paul Ekman has done so much in breaking down emotions by studying the physical facial features and his work is seminal.
I also like Regina St. Clare had so much trouble understanding Mattieu Ricard’s accent. I am hearing impaired and even with my hearing aids, I had trouble understanding him when he talked fast in his normal speech patterns. I really need subtitles and captions. I have had years of therapy myself having bi polar disorder and PTSD from early childhood verbal assaultive home and have spent a lifetime applying Buddhist teachings to helping myself. And they do work!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Mattieu and Mind and Life for this and Awake Network. I hope and pray for all humanity to wake up so we can experience love and joy and compassion as a species!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, Donna Estess Boca Raton, Fl.
Hi Donna, there are subtitles on all of the recordings! You can just click the “CC” on the bottom of the video box and select your preferred language.
Thank You. If I went to Berkeley I would want Dacher as my Professor. Just Great!
se van a traducir al español?
thanks
Thank you all for this broad survey of research and its useful application!
Dacher, I was disturbed by your comment on the US system being punitive and comparing it to South Africa, suggesting we are worse. I struggle with this as we have one of the most heralded human rights constitutions in the world, an excellent justice system, and a prison system that’s strongly oriented to rehabilitation. We don’t have capital punishment, and prisoners get parole easier than many are comfortable with! Granted our police system is inefficient and often corrupt, but this often makes things far less punitive! So I am not sure to what you are referring in your comment.
I love it thanks so much from Lisa McGuiness from Ireland
Hello! Jenny from Oslo, Norway. Thank you!😊 Glad I joined the summit, so much to learn about human and emotion and basic human goodness.
Thank you all for your inspiring knowledge for the benefit of humankind. Greetings from Peru.
Thank you for this panel talk. Very clear and well explained topics. It makes me hopefull that there is so much attention for the good sides of humanity.
I sense I´m a better person after this panel. Gracias Gracias Gracias!
Interesting is when I listen to you, we know so much and in one way seems that humanity is developing in positive and generous way, but on the other side in the last 20 years in real life people seem to get more and more nervous, children more helpless, movies more and more agressive. So what is going on?
The Session was so amazing and inspiring. Thank you very much.
this panel is giving so deep images to my mind 🙂
Inspiration. Thank you!
Thank you. I resonate fully with what was presented and see clearly how emotions manifest itself in my own lived experience.
Enlightening
Lani, thanks for being so clear and specific with the concepts you shared!
Great that you quoted something so close to a lot of people as a Disney movie : )
‘Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten’ Loved it!
Fantastic! Une of the best summit I’ve ever seen.
I have one question: we are dual.. be destructive can be constructive to create a new paradigm and comprehension about our relashioships? The society created one kind of structure, and it has been delivering a lot of consequences for people and enviroment… the current conflicts is the natural ways of change and transformation of society?
Such an amazing and inspiring SUMMIT, so very thankful!!!!!
So rich with truth and light. What a beautiful reminder and guide to acknowledging the present and shining hope to the next steps we take together as an Ohana!
Thank you deeply!!
Wonderful talk. Really inspiring. Specially, knowing that our true nature is luminious and compassionate. Hope for a good future.
This is so good, thank you. Clear and instructional.
Wonderful session, thank you so much! I wish time compatibility had allowed me to pick their brains a little!
Thank you very much for inviting us to cultivate our constructive emotions and thus be able to be a humanity of love
love the format of conversation that the discussion has taken, just love how ‘happiness’ is not adequate.. nor is the ultimate… collective efforts for community’s wellbeing is paramount – love that… and thats whatth e pandemic is trying to teach us. grateful for the discussion
Merci beaucoup pour cet échange instructif, lumineux et plein d’espérance.
Truly inspirational and Informative. We need to get back to our humanity of care and love and find ourselves.