Selfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness

by James H. Austin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012596
• ISBN13: 9780262012591
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 9.1"