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Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
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zackattackonJuly 4, 2010
Some of you may find this blog entry I wrote to be interesting. It is a review of Buddha's Brain: the practical neuroscience of happiness, love & wisdom.
http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/05/the-neuroscience-of-buddh...
I am currently reading The Myth of Freedom by Trungpa. He's definitely assaulted my practice of spiritual materialism.
I am confused about one thing. Trugpa asserts that the benefit to meditation is boredom. Csikszentmihalyi, in Flow, asserts that meditation is beneficial because it is the practice of such a well-honed skill (practitioners become skilled at observing the intricacies of their breath and therefore experience a feeling of being "in the zone", which is basically the opposite of boredom).
Trugpa says that observing the breath is just a useful beginner's crutch.
What do you think? Estragon, would you please chime in?
wjyonOct 31, 2012
I was on the fence on whether claimed effects of meditation were real, and reading this book clinched it for me. It anchored the claims I'd read elsewhere in something I actually believe - fMRI scans of brain activity.