[Buddha-l] neuroscience: neural plasticity

[Joy Vriens]

Steve,

>>> The effect is one can become, for all intents and purposes, 
>>> relatively free of afflictive emotions and radiate this possibility 
>>> for others. 
 
>> The effect is that one feels good and this somehow is 
>> communicative. Can we agree on that? 
 
>Perhaps, but how communicative (relatively speaking) could someone in 
>extended retreat be, esp. if they were observing silence?

I was trying to understand your "radiate".

> I would 
>argue that the "spontaneous qualities" of this state can still 
>communicated without gross speech. The level of compassion being 
>engaged here would be that of rtsal and gdangs, the compassionate 
>manifestation of the outer and inner space as a self-perfected 
>mandala. See http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/thugs_rje and 
>http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/gdangs for detailed definitions. 

Do you expect that at one point we would be able to measure rtsal and gdangs? Just wondering...

Joy