Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice - Wallace, B. Alan (President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies) - Böcker - Columbia University Press - 9780231158350 - 31 december 2013
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Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice

Wallace, B. Alan (President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies)

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Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice

Renowned Buddhist philosopher B. Alan Wallace reasserts the power of shamatha and vipashyana, traditional Buddhist meditations, to clarify the mind's role in the natural world. Wallace challenges the claim that consciousness is nothing more than an emergent property of the brain with little relation to universal events. Rather, he maintains that the observer is essential to measuring quantum systems and that mental phenomena (however conceived) influence brain function and behavior. Wallace embarks on a two-part mission: to restore human nature, and then to transcend it. He begins by illustrating the value of skepticism in Buddhism and science and the difficulty of merging their experiential methods of inquiry. Yet Wallace also proves that Buddhist views on human nature and the possibility of free can liberate us from the metaphysical constraints of scientific materialism. He also explores the radical empiricism inspired by William James, applying it to Indian Buddhist philosophy's four schools and the Great Perfection school of Tibetan Buddhism. He concludes with an explanation of shamatha and vipashyana and their capacity? for realizing the full nature, origins, and potential of consciousness.


304 pages

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Releasedatum 31 december 2013
ISBN13 9780231158350
Utgivare Columbia University Press
Antal sidor 304
Mått 149 × 223 × 19 mm   ·   402 g
Språk Engelska  

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