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Other researchers have explored this same phenomenon by having a female research assistant tell male subjects that they were going to have their balance tested.4 They were blindfolded and put in a dental chair that would lean back. A loud noise aligned with an “accidental” backward tilt of the chair likely stimulated the nervous systems in the subjects. After the tilting, and compared to control tests, male subjects found the female research assistant more attractive.
No Self, No Problem
Chris Niebauer
Fourth, you learn how to distract yourself from depressing thoughts. The mother learns that thinking these negative things now is not inevitable. Rumination, particularly when one is under pressure to perform well, makes the situation even worse. Often it is better to put off thinking, in order to do your best. You can learn to control not only what you think but when you think it. Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do:
Learned Optimism
Martin E.P. Seligman
The word jhāna literally means “meditation.”d It comes from the verb jhāyati, which means “to meditate.” Many times the Buddha would give a dhamma talk and close it by saying, “There are these roots of trees, these empty huts, go meditate (Jhāyati).”3 From this usage of jhāyati, it seems certain that what the Buddha meant by meditation was jhāna practice.
Right Concentration
Leigh Brasington
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