07-14-2012, 12:00 AM
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Zen and the Brain
Presented by Dr James Austin
ABSTRACT
What
has been learned about the brain that helps understand how selfless
insight-wisdom can develop on the long-term meditative path? Recent
brain-imaging research clarifies the relationships between two key
issues: 1) How we use both top-down and bottom-up modes of attentive
processing; and 2) How we constructed an egocentric Self so strong that
it so often generates suffering.
Speaker Info: James H. Austin
James
H. Austin is Emeritus Professor of Neurology, University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center. Austin is the author of his well known book Zen
and the Brain, which aims to establish links between the neurological
workings of the human brain and meditation. Austin has written two
sequels to it: Zen-Brain Reflections (February, 2006), and Selfless
Insight (2009). He was student of the late Rinzai roshi Kobori Nanrei
Sohaku.
Zen and the Brain
Presented by Dr James Austin
ABSTRACT
What
has been learned about the brain that helps understand how selfless
insight-wisdom can develop on the long-term meditative path? Recent
brain-imaging research clarifies the relationships between two key
issues: 1) How we use both top-down and bottom-up modes of attentive
processing; and 2) How we constructed an egocentric Self so strong that
it so often generates suffering.
Speaker Info: James H. Austin
James
H. Austin is Emeritus Professor of Neurology, University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center. Austin is the author of his well known book Zen
and the Brain, which aims to establish links between the neurological
workings of the human brain and meditation. Austin has written two
sequels to it: Zen-Brain Reflections (February, 2006), and Selfless
Insight (2009). He was student of the late Rinzai roshi Kobori Nanrei
Sohaku.