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Austin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (371 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-51665-9 311 $a0-262-01259-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [274]-312) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents in Brief -- Contents in Detail -- Chapters Containing Testable Hypotheses -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- By Way of Introduction -- I On the Varieties of Attention -- 1 Training Attention -- 2 Meditating Mindfully at the Dawn of a New Millennium -- 3 Meditation -- 4 Neurologizing about Attention -- 5 On Remaining Attentive while We Meditate -- 6 Perceiving Clearly -- 7 Network Systems Serving Different Forms of Attention -- 8 The Implications of Training More Efficient Attentional Processing -- 9 Studying Meditators' Brains -- 10 Inward Turned Attention -- 11 First Mondo -- II On the Origins of Self -- 12 You Are the ''Person of the Year'' -- 13 On the Nature and the Origins of the Self -- 14 Selective Deficits of Egocentric or Allocentric Processing in Neurological Patients -- 15 The Brain's Active Metabolism during Resting Conditions -- 16 Internal ''Mirrors'' Facing Outward -- 17 Subcortical Contributions to Self/Other Distinctions -- 18 Second Mondo -- III Toward Selflessness -- 19 Seeing Selflessly in a New Dimension -- 20 On the Long Path toward Selflessness -- 21 Neuroimaging during Tasks That Shift the Brain from Self-Referential into Other-Referential Forms of Attention -- 22 Slow Fluctuations, Revealing How Networks Shift Spontaneously -- 23 The Balance of Opposing Functions -- 24 Third Mondo -- IV On the Nature of Insight -- 25 Intuitions about Insight -- 26 A Lotus Puzzle -- 27 Our Normal Quest for Meaning -- 28 Studies of Meaningful Coherence in Visual Images -- 29 Dynamic Aspects of Truth -- 30 Value Systems for Truth, Beauty, and Reality -- 31The Temporal Lobe: Harmonies of Perception and Interpretation -- 32 The Temporal Lobe: Word Thoughts Interfere with No-Thought Processing -- 33 The Pregnant Meditative Pause. 327 $a34 Recent, Ongoing Neuroimaging Studies of Ordinary Forms of Insight -- 35 Alternative Ways to Study Ordinary Insight Using Neuroimaging Techniques -- 36 Does Eliminating the Negative Help to Accentuate the Positive? -- 37 Balancing One's Assets and Liabilities -- 38 Fourth Mondo -- V On the Path toward Insight-Wisdom -- 39 The Broken Water Bucket -- 40 The Construction and Dissolution of Time -- 41 Aspects of Wisdom -- 42 Cutting into the Layers of Self -- 43 Striking at the Roots of Overconditioned Attitudes -- 44 Neuroimaging Our Representations of Shoulds and Oughts -- 45 Distinctions between Intuitive Mind Reading, Simple Empathy, and Compassion -- 46 Empathy, Forgivability, and the Responses of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex -- 47 Rigorous Retreats, and the Supporting Influence of a Friendly Hand -- 48 Show Me -- 49 Fifth Mondo -- VI Toward Emotional Maturity -- 50 On Learning about the Emotions -- 51 Modulating the Emotions -- 52 How Could the Long-Term Meditative Path Modulate the Emotions? -- 53 Newer Views of Extinction -- 54 Anatomical Asymmetries -- 55 The Cognitive and Emotional Origins of Maturity -- 56 Brain Peptides Help Decode Subtle Facial Emotions -- 57 Did You Really ''Have a Good Day?'' -- 58 Sixth Mondo -- VII Updating Selected Research -- 59 Selected Topics of Current Interest -- In Closing -- Glossary -- References and Notes -- Source Notes -- Index. 330 $aAttention, self-consciousness, insight, wisdom, emotional maturity: how Zen teachings can illuminate the way our brains function and vice-versa. 606 $aMeditation$xZen Buddhism 606 $aZen Buddhism$xPsychology 606 $aConsciousness$xReligious aspects$xZen Buddhism 615 0$aMeditation$xZen Buddhism. 615 0$aZen Buddhism$xPsychology. 615 0$aConsciousness$xReligious aspects$xZen Buddhism. 676 $a294.3/4435 700 $aAustin$b James H.$f1925-$01640509 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820857203321 996 $aSelfless insight$94123802 997 $aUNINA