B Perhaps the most staggering result to date came in a study of a handful of meditation adepts that included Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (as he describes in this book). During a meditation on compassion, neural activity in a .key center in the brain's system for happiness jumped by 700 to 800 percent! For ordinary subjects in the study, volunteers who had just begun to meditate, that same area increased its.' activity by a mere 10 to 15 percent. These meditation experts had put in levels of practice typical of Olympic athletes-between ten thousand and fifty-five thousand hours over the course of a lifetime-honing their meditative skills during years of ~etreat. Yongey Mingyur is something of a prodigy. here. As a young boy, he received profound meditation instructions from his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Perhaps the most staggering result to date came in a study of a handful of meditation adepts that included Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (as he describes in this book). During a meditation on compassion, neural activity in a .key center in the brain's system for happiness jumped by 700 to 800 percent! For ordinary subjects in the study, volunteers who had just begun to meditate, that same area increased its.' activity by a mere 10 to 15 percent. These meditation experts had put in levels of practice typical of Olympic athletes-between ten thousand and fifty-five thousand hours over the course of a lifetime-honing their meditative skills during years of ~etreat. Yongey Mingyur is something of a prodigy. here. As a young boy, he received profound meditation instructions from his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche