Meditating selflessly : practical neural Zen / / James H. Austin |
Autore | Austin James H. <1925-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 294.3/4435 |
Soggetto topico |
Meditation - Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism - Psychology Self-consciousness (Awareness) - Religious aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
NEUROSCIENCE/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology PHILOSOPHY/General |
ISBN |
0-262-29771-X
1-283-30294-2 9786613302946 0-262-30015-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. An introduction to selfless meditation -- pt. 2. Meditating selflessly outdoors -- pt. 3. Meditating selflessly indoors -- pt. 4. Attending meditative retreats -- pt. 5. Daily life practice. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781931003321 |
Austin James H. <1925-> | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Meditating selflessly : practical neural Zen / / James H. Austin |
Autore | Austin James H. <1925-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 294.3/4435 |
Soggetto topico |
Meditation - Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism - Psychology Self-consciousness (Awareness) - Religious aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
NEUROSCIENCE/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology PHILOSOPHY/General |
ISBN |
0-262-29771-X
1-283-30294-2 9786613302946 0-262-30015-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. An introduction to selfless meditation -- pt. 2. Meditating selflessly outdoors -- pt. 3. Meditating selflessly indoors -- pt. 4. Attending meditative retreats -- pt. 5. Daily life practice. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828640503321 |
Austin James H. <1925-> | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sanzen nyumon : an introduction to Zen training / / introduction by Trevor Leggett ; translated by Dogen Hosokawa, Roy Yoshimoto |
Autore | Omori Sogen <1904-> |
Edizione | [1st English ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Kegan Paul International, : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina | 294.3/443 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HosokawaDogen
YoshimotoRoy Kenichi |
Soggetto topico |
Meditation - Zen Buddhism
Zen meditations |
ISBN |
0-203-03883-5
1-283-83867-2 1-136-16726-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; An Introduction to Zen Training: A Translation of Sanzen Nyumon; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Canon; Foreword to the English Edition; Introduction; Preface; Chapter 1. Why Do Zazen; To Know Our True Self; Now, Here and I; Chapter 2. The Aim of Zazen; Types of Zazen; Mistaken Aims; What Is Zazen?; The Four Relationships Between Sitting and Zen; Chapter 3. How to Sit in Zen Meditation; Preparation Before Sitting; Adjusting the Body; Adjusting the Breath; Adjusting the Mind; Illustrations of the Unification of Mind, Breath, and Body
Chapter 4. Things to Pay Attention to During MeditationAdvisability of Putting Strength in the Hara; On Mitnen Mitso (No Thought and No Thinking); The Direction of Zazen; How Long Should We Sit?; Continue Training Long and Steadily; Selecting Your Teacher; On Makyo (Disturbing Conditions); How to Get to Your Feet After Sitting; Kufu in Movement-Practical Training; Zazen Without Sitting; Samadhi and Attachment; Sit Hard and Sit a Great Deal; The Rinzai Sect and the Soto Sect; Discipline and Proof; Zen Associations; Chapter 5. Physiological Effects; In Serenity Beyond Life and Death Dying in MeditationEvery Day a Good Day; Playing in Samadhi; Solitary Sitter: Great Sublime Peak; A Clear Wind Arising in Every Step of Our Feet; Standing Up in Response; Coming Without Any Sound; Being Unborn; Waiting in Hell; Chapter 6. Zazen Wasan (A Song of Zazen); Chapter 7. The Ten Oxherding Pictures; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Lineage; Glossary; Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Introduction to Zen training |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822605103321 |
Omori Sogen <1904-> | ||
London ; ; New York, : Kegan Paul International, : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Selfless insight : Zen and the meditative transformations of consciousness / / James H. Austin |
Autore | Austin James H. <1925-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
Disciplina | 294.3/4435 |
Soggetto topico |
Meditation - Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism - Psychology Consciousness - Religious aspects - Zen Buddhism |
Soggetto non controllato |
NEUROSCIENCE/General
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General |
ISBN |
0-262-26036-0
0-262-25500-6 9786612240454 1-282-24045-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782857603321 |
Austin James H. <1925-> | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Selfless insight : Zen and the meditative transformations of consciousness / / James H. Austin |
Autore | Austin James H. <1925-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
Disciplina | 294.3/4435 |
Soggetto topico |
Meditation - Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism - Psychology Consciousness - Religious aspects - Zen Buddhism |
ISBN |
0-262-26036-0
0-262-25500-6 9786612240454 1-282-24045-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- 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.
34 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820857203321 |
Austin James H. <1925-> | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Zen & the Brain: Toward an Understand of Meditation & Consciousness |
Autore | Austin James H. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, USA, : MIT Press, 19980201 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 844 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Disciplina | 294.3/422 |
Soggetto topico |
Meditation - Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism - Psychology Consciousness - Zen Buddhism - Religious aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
NEUROSCIENCE/General
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General |
ISBN |
0-585-30203-0
0-262-26746-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Zen and the Brain |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783176303321 |
Austin James H. | ||
Cambridge, MA, USA, : MIT Press, 19980201 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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