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This is a book for readers who want to probe more deeply into mindfulness. It goes beyond the casual, once-in-awhile meditation in popular culture, grounding mindfulness in daily practice, Zen teaching, and recent research in neuroscience. In Living Zen Remindfully, James Austin, author of the groundbreaking Zen and the Brain, describes authentic Zen training-the commitment to a process of regular, ongoing daily life practice. This training process enables us to unlearn unfruitful habits, develop more wholesome ones, and lead a more genuinely creative life.

Austin shows that mindfulness can mean more than our being conscious of the immediate 'now.' In can extend into the subconscious, where most of our brain's activities take place, invisibly. Austin suggest ways that long-term meditative training helps cultivate the hidden, affirmative resource of our unconscious memory. Remindfulness, as Austin terms it, can help us to adapt more effectively and to live more authentic lives.

Austin discusses different types of meditations, mediation and problem-solving, and the meaning of enlightenment. He adresses egocentrism (self-centeredness) and allocentrism other-centeredness), and the blending of focal and global attention. He explains the remarkable processes that encode, store, and retrieve our memories, focusing on the covert, helpful remindful processes incubating at subconscious levels; considers the illuminating confluence of Zen, clinical neurology, and neuroscience; and describes an everyday life of 'living Zen,' drawing on the poetry of Basho the seventeenth-centruy haiku master.

James H. Austin, M.D., a clinical neurologist, researcher, and zen practitioner for more than three decades, is Professor Emeritus of Neurologiy 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.

'Dr. James Austin's unique and rich perspectives on he brain, mind, and Zen enrich and astound.'-Roshi Joan Halifax, Abbot, Upaya Zen Center.

'In this enlightening book neurologist and Zen practioner James Austin further explores the brain mechanisms that mediate Zen states, updated by the latest discoveries in neuroscience. He also offers an enjoyable mix of interesting insights: the miracle of birds triggering awakening, training the unconscious mind, functions of underappreciated brain areas, lessons from Zen masters and haiku.'-Eberhard Fetz, Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washignotn.

'James Austin's unique conbination of qualities make him wihout doubt the most knowledgeable Zen practioner, He is a neurologist, a student of Zen who has achieved kensho, and a scientist of outstanding quality and intelligence. Living Zen Remindfuly, the latest in a series of six books on neuroscience and Zen meditation, is the jewel in the crown of this important series, and should be on the bookshelf of every Zen practioner and of any scientist who wants to understand the fundamental processes which are involved in meditation.'-Peter Fenwick MB BChir (cantab), DPM FRCPsych

Contents

Chapters containing testable hypotheses
List of figures and tables
Preface
Acknowldgments
By way of a personal introduction
Part I On the path of meditation
1 Can meditation enhance creative problem-solving skills? A progress report
2 In Zen, what does it mean 'to be enlightened'?
3 Developing traits of character on the way to altruism
Part II Implications of a self-other continuum
4 The self: A primer
5 Emerging concepts in self-other relationships
6 Early distinctions between self and other; focal and global, are coded in the medial temporal lobe
Part III Aspects of memory
7 Remindfulness
8 A remindful route through the nucleus reunions
9 A disorder called transient global amnesia
10 Remindful Zen: An auditory 'Altar ego'?
11 Following an auditory stimulus, then 'seeing the light'
12 Turning
13 Revisting Kensho, March 1982
Part IV Neurologizing
14 A mondo in clinical neurology
15 Two key Gyri a notable Sulcus, and the wandering cranial nerve
16 Paradox: The maple leaf way up in ambient space
17 The nitric oxiode connection
18 'Pop-out'
19 Keeping your eye on the ball
Part V Living Zen
20 What is living Zen?
21 Sometimes, Zen is 'for the birds'
22 Basho, the haiku poet
23 Basho's states of consciousness
24 Zen and the daily-life incremental training of Basho's attention
25 A story about wild birds, transformed attitudes, and a supervisory self
In closing
Appendix A back to nature: Pausing in awe
Appendix B Reminders: The crucial role of inhibitiry heurons and messenger molecules in attentioanla procesisng
Appendix C Magnetoencephalography
Appendix D Diffusion-weighted imaging
Appencis E Some newer methods of fMRI analysis
Appendix F The Enso on this cover
Appendix G Word problems
Notes
Index
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