Destructive Emotions

by Daniel Goleman

Paperback, 2003

Collection

Disturbing Emotions

Status

Available

Call number

GOL-307

Publication

Bloomsbury (2003) 404 pages

Description

These poignant and relevant dialogues, held just a few months prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001, forcefully put to rest the misconception that the realms of science and spirituality are fundamentally at odds with one another. Questions such as Why are rational and intelligent people often at the root of destructive behavior? and How can the emotions that produce violence be controlled? are the basis of these dialogues between the Dalai Lama and a select group of Buddhists, Western psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who gathered together to elucidate, understand, and combat destructive emotions. Estos diálogos relevantes y profundos que tuvieron lugar pocos meses antes de los atentados del 11 de septiembre, desacreditan la idea falsa de que la ciencia y la espiritualidad no pueden existir juntas. Preguntas como ¿Por qué personas aparentemente racionales e inteligentes se portan destructivamente? y ¿Cómo pueden controlar las emociones que conducen a impulsos violentos? son los temas de este diálogo entre el Dalai Lama y un selecto grupo de eruditos budistas, psicólogos occidentales, neurocientíficos y filósofos, reunidos para dilucidar, comprender y combatir las emociones destructivas.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member tjcasserly

Listened to audiobook. Found this to be a fascinating account of how "Western" science can now measure the cost of destructive emotions on human life and how Buddhist traditions, along with other religious traditions, have developed considerable practice and techniques for reducing the experience

of destructive emotions in one's life. In particular, brain scans of an advanced buddhist monk provided astounding evidence of bodily functions responding to a variety of meditative states. The book is a fairly detailed account of a multi-day conference of presentations by Western academics and response by the Dalai Lama and fellow Buddhist practiioners.

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LibraryThing member autumnleaving

This is not an easy read. This is not the kind of material that I breezed through and I've found that while the rational and logical aspects kept me rooted, some realizations along the way were pretty painful. I read this with a journal next to me. And I'm not finished reading it yet. The book

offers a lot of self-reflection and one of the most poignant takeaways I received from this is how the Dalai Lama had to take a break during one seminar when he learned that Westerners hated themselves. He never thought that anyone can be capable of that.

I can read this over and over again, but in different phases of my life. Really grateful for this book.

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LibraryThing member jzacsh

Re-reading - the audiobook narrator feels a bit deadpan, but the book is still worth the re-read.

2nd read through: good lessons and ideas. Particularly interesting to an atheist.

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