Buddha's Brain : The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
ISBN: 9781572246959 | 1572246952
Format: PaperbackPublisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc
Pub. Date: 11/1/2009
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The Buddha and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's-and then they changed their brains in wasys that changed the world.
In Buddha's Brain, a clinical psychologist and a senior neurologist explain how the brain benefits from contemplative practice and show readers how to develop greater happiness, love, and wisdom by drawing from breakthroughs in modern neuroscience.
In Buddha's Brain, a clinical psychologist and a senior neurologist explain how the brain benefits from contemplative practice and show readers how to develop greater happiness, love, and wisdom by drawing from breakthroughs in modern neuroscience.
| Foreword | p. v |
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Self-Transforming Brain | p. 5 |
| The Causes of Suffering | |
| The Evolution of Suffering | p. 23 |
| The First and Second Dart | p. 49 |
| Happiness | |
| Taking in the Good | p. 67 |
| Cooling the Fires | p. 79 |
| Strong ... MORE | p. 97 |
| Equanimity | p. 109 |
| Love | |
| Two Wolves in the Heart | p. 121 |
| Compassion and Assertion | p. 137 |
| Boundless Kindness | p. 157 |
| Wisdom | |
| Foundations of Mindfulness | p. 177 |
| Blissful Concentration | p. 191 |
| Relaxing the Self | p. 205 |
| Appendix Nutritional Neurochemistry | p. 227 |
| References | p. 235 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Rick Hanson, PH.D., is a neuropsychologist and meditation teacher. He is cofounder of the Wellspring Institute for Neurosecience and Contemplative Wisdom and edits the Wise Brain Bulletin. Richard Mendius, MD, is a neurologist and cofounder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplatie Wisdom.
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