Zen-brain horizons : toward a living zen / James H. Austin, M.D.
A neurologist and Zen practitioner clarifies the benefits of meditative training, drawing on classical Buddhist literature and modern brain research.
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The MIT Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- By way of a personal introduction
- Looking far back into the distant past
- Two old men consult the Buddha
- Neuropsychological aspects of the attentive self
- Neural correlations of meditating selflessly
- Buddhist botany 101
- Looking back into earlier centuries of the Common Era
- A glimpse of "just this" in Tang dynasty China (618-907)
- Avian Zen
- Homage to William James
- Sampling recent reports
- Recent clinical information
- Mindfulness starts as present-moment awareness
- Subconscious background qualities that can infuse awareness
- Looking out into the distance above the horizon
- Reprocessing emotionally traumatic imagery while elevating the gaze
- Spontaneous color imagery during meditation
- A way out of the grand delusion
- Peering into the future
- New research horizons
- Resources of enduring happiness; opening to "just this"
- In closing
- Appendix A. The forest as a sanctuary for re-creation
- Appendix B. Potentially useful words and phrases
- Appendix C. Common acronyms used in brain research
- Appendix D. Elephants in the living room.