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Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge |
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| Author |
Wallace, B. Alan
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| Date | 2006.10.17 |
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| Pages | 256 |
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| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
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http://cup.columbia.edu/
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| Location | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | 尸羅=戒=command=Precept=sila=morality=rule=discipline=prohibition; 佛教人物=Buddhist |
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| Abstract | Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe. However, B. Alan Wallace, a respected Buddhist scholar, proposes that the contemplative methodologies of Buddhism and of Western science are capable of being integrated into a single discipline: contemplative science.
The science of consciousness introduces first-person methods of investigating the mind through Buddhist contemplative techniques, such as samatha, an organized, detailed system of training the attention. Just as scientists make observations and conduct experiments with the aid of technology, contemplatives have long tested their own theories with the help of highly developed meditative skills of observation and experimentation. Contemplative science allows for a deeper knowledge of mental phenomena, including a wide range of states of consciousness, and its emphasis on strict mental discipline counteracts the effects of conative (intention and desire), attentional, cognitive, and affective imbalances.
Just as behaviorism, psychology, and neuroscience have all shed light on the cognitive processes that enable us to survive and flourish, contemplative science offers a groundbreaking perspective for expanding our capacity to realize genuine well-being. It also forges a link between the material world and the realm of the subconscious that transcends the traditional science-based understanding of the self. |
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| Table of contents | Acknowledgments vii
1 Principles of Contemplative Science 1
2 Where Science and Religion Collide 28
3 The Study of Consciousness, East and West 50
4 Spiritual Awakening and Objective Knowledge 65
5 Buddhist Nontheism, Polytheism, and Monotheism 94
6 Worlds of Intersubjectivity 109
7 Śamatha: The Contemplative Refinement of Attention 135
8 Beyond Idolatry: The Renaissance of a Spirit of Empiricism 149
Notes 171
Bibliography 189
Index 197 |
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| ISBN | 9780231138345 |
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| Hits | 1046 |
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| Created date | 2008.07.14 |
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| Modified date | 2016.09.30 |
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