Selfless Insight
Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness
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- Paperback
372 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2011
Summary
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 synt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262516655 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262516659 |
| Author: | James H. Austin |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 372 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Selfless Insight |
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“Analytic philosophy of mind sees persons as much less substantial and ego centered than Cartesian rationalism, which posits that my essence is my immutable self, my soul. Neuroscience finds no soul, no central headquarters that is me. And Zen teaches how to flourish in a world where you are nothing rather than something. Austin’s Selfless Insight takes us on an insightful tour of a certain postmodern space where we meet the Heraclitean processes that we are.”–Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University and author of The Really Hard Problem
About The Author
James H. Austin
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
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