Why I Read Namtars, the Memoirs of Masters

And mindfulness does, indeed, relieve suffering to some degree. When my friend Richard Davidson—the psychology professor who founded the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—and I reviewed the best of peer-reviewed scientific studies of meditation in our book, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body, we found that even beginners benefited from mindfulness by becoming calmer, less easily upset, and more focused, among many other benefits.