EAN: 9780262536141

BEYOND THE SELF - CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN BUDDHIS...

Converging and diverging views on the mind  the self  consciousness  the unconscious  free will
perception  meditation  and other topics. Buddhism shares with science the task of examining
the mind empirically  it has pursued  for two millennia  direct investigation of the mind
through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience  on the other hand  relies on third-person
knowledge in the form of scientific observation. In this book  Matthieu Ricard  a Buddhist monk
trained as a molecular biologist  and Wolf Singer  a distinguished neuroscientist—close friends
continuing an ongoing dialogue—offer their perspectives on the mind  the self  consciousness 
the unconscious  free will  epistemology  meditation  and neuroplasticity. Ricard and Singer's
wide-ranging conversation stages an enlightening and engaging encounter between Buddhism's
wealth of experiential findings and neuroscience's abundance of experimental results. They
discuss  among many other things  the difference between rumination and meditation (rumination
is the scourge of meditation  but psychotherapy depends on it)  the distinction between pure
awareness and its contents  the Buddhist idea (or lack of one) of the unconscious and
neuroscience's precise criteria for conscious and unconscious processes  and the commonalities
between cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation. Their views diverge (Ricard asserts that
the third-person approach will never encounter consciousness as a primary experience) and
converge (Singer points out that the neuroscientific understanding of perception as
reconstruction is very like the Buddhist all-discriminating wisdom) but both keep their vision
trained on understanding fundamental aspects of human life.

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