Selfless Insight
Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness
Attention, self-consciousness, insight, wisdom, emotional maturity: how Zen teachings can illuminate the way our brains function and vice-versa.When neurology researcher James Austin began Zen training, he found that his medical education was inadequate. During the past three decades, he has been at the cutting edge of both Zen and neuroscience, constantly discovering new examples of how these two large fields each illuminate the other. Now, in Selfless Insight, Austin arrives at a fresh synthesis, one that invokes the latest brain research to explain the basis for meditative states and clarifies what Zen awakening implies for our understandi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-26036-7
- EAN: 9780262260367
- Produktnummer: 27866269
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 372 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'209 KB
- Abbildungen: 19 FIGURES, 16 TABLES
Über den Autor
James H. Austin, a clinical neurologist, researcher, and Zen practitioner for more than three decades, is Professor Emeritus of Neurology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Courtesy Professor of Neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is the author of Zen and the Brain, Chase, Chance, and Creativity, Zen-Brain Reflections, Selfless Insight, Meditating Selflessly, and Zen-Brain Horizons, all published by the MIT Press. For more information, please visit www.zenandthebrain.com.
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