Joy to the world

From Lisbon to the World...

Reverence of creature, joy and service to the creation in the eyes of Bayazid Bastami

Since the Holy Quran cares about human personality and moral value, he also emphasizes his material and spiritual rights, so he explicitly declares the dignity of man: Karman Bani Adam and the Humble of the Faithful and the Wisdom of Me Al-Taybat and ... (Asra 70) And because he blown his soul into him, he made the heavens and the earth blessed with him, and created for him a birth of blessings...

Can we share the joy of others? Empathic neural responses to distress vs joy.

The neural bases of empathy have been examined mainly in the context of reacting to others' distress, while almost no attention has been paid to the mechanisms by which we share others' joy. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we demonstrated that the same neural network mediates judgment of the emotional state of the other in response to both negative and positive events through empat...

The biology of joy.

Richard Davidson was in a lab observing a Buddhist Monk Sink deep into serene meditation when he noticed something that sent his own pulse racing. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, hurriedly double-checked the data streaming to his computer from electrodes attached to the monk's skull, but there was no mistake. Electrical activity in the left pre...

The Joy of Sets

A colony of beavers, an unkindness of ravens, a murder of crows, a team of oxen, . . . each is an example of a set of things. Rather than define what a set is, we assume you have the “ordinary, human, intuitive (and frequently erroneous) understanding”1 of what a set is. 1 Paul Halmos, Naive Set Theory, Springer–Verlag, NY 1974. Sets have elements, often called members. The elements of a set ma...