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Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom |  | Authors: Rick Hanson Ph.D., with Richard Mendius MD
Publisher: New Harbinger
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Sales Rank: 767
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 200
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1572246952
Dewey Decimal Number: 612.8
EAN: 9781572246959
ASIN: 1572246952
Publication Date: November 1, 2009 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else s. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.
With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can shape your own brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.
Buddha's Brain joins the forces of modern science with ancient teachings to show readers how to have greater emotional balance in turbulent times, as well as healthier relationships, more effective actions, and a deeper religious or spiritual practice.
Well-referenced and grounded in science, the book is full of practical tools and skills readers can use in daily life to tap the unused potential of the brain and rewire it over time for greater peace and well-being.
If you can change your brain, you can change your life.
"Numerous writings in recent years have exacerbated the traditional rift between science and religion; however, there has been a refreshing parallel movement in the opposite direction. Neuroscientists have become increasingly interested in using first person introspective inquiries if the mind to complement their third person western scientific investigations of the brain. Buddhist contemplative practices are particularly amenable to such collaboration, inviting efforts to find neurobiological explanations for Buddhist philosophy. Stripped of religious baggage, Buddha s Brain clearly describes how modern concepts of evolutionary and cognitive neurobiology support core Buddhist teachings and practice. This book should have great appeal for those seeking a secular spiritual path, while also raising many testable hypotheses for interested neuroscientists."
Jerome Engel, Jr., MD, PhD
Jonathan Sinay Distinguished Professor of Neurology,
Neurobiology, and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Director, UCLA Seizure Disorder Center
David Geffen, School of Medicine at UCLA
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Finding Happiness With Buddha's Help November 20, 2009
Larry Underwood (Scottsdale, AZ)
Rick Hanson has perhaps unlocked the secret of finding true happiness, love and wisdom; in other words, total fulfillment, by blending the very real studies of neuroscience with the spiritual philosophy of Buddha's intriguiing brain. The end result is a very useful tool practically anyone can use to enhance their self-esteem, while lending positive support and guidance for those they come in contact with; especially those who matter most---friends and loved ones.
Certainly, this is a tall order and one that Hanson decisively delivers with an engaging and witty style of writing that gives the reader hope for brighter days ahead. This is wonderful advice, particularly during times of stress and confusion, where it's difficult to separate what's important in life from what is generally superficial.
By getting our brains to work in harmony with our spiritual well-being, much positive feelings will come naturally for us, on a more consistent basis; this is really the key to feeling satisfied with our lives, as well as helping others along those same lines. Cleary, this has a profoundly positive impact on society as a whole, and the beauty of it is, it's really very simple to implement.
Reading this book is a great place to start. You'll almost be guaranteed to benefit from it; it's really a no-brainer.
Buddha's Brain November 6, 2009
L. A. Denny MD (San Diego, California)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just read Rick Hanson's book Buddha's Brain, a wonderful 'experience near' evoking presentation of the confluence of neuroscience, evolution, and 'felt sense' practice. A deceptively sophisticated 'book' that is in the 'service' of 'lived practice' enabling the reflective awareness of one's unique unfolding life source to nudge into experience within the mystery of the expanse, unnamable, of the ever emergent oneness. With less convoluted words a heartfelt journey at a number levels.
Buddha's Brain on My Mind! November 3, 2009
Pavel Somov, Ph.D., Author of Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Buddha'a Brain" is a highly practical, no-nonsense manual to your brain that teaches you to drive your brain using the gearbox of your mind. This very well researched book trains you to fire up your brain, to cool it down, and even to expand your "consciousness workspace." The neuro-anatomical commentary that accompanies the Sunyuata doctrine of "no fixed self" is masterful! "Buddha's Brain" is a laconic, pragmatic cousin to James Austin's "Zen and the Brain." Bound to be a classic!
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.
author of "Eating the Moment," "Present Perfect: a Mindfulness Approach to Overcoming Perfectionism and the Need to Control," & "The Lotus Effect"
A Deep Awakening into the Heart of Mind...what is it, why is it that way, and how understanding it can change it all ! ! ! October 31, 2009
Sophia Anderson-lee (San Francisco Bay Area)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Wow ! ! ! These are the first words that come to this mind of mine, as I begin to think about this amazing new book from Rick...and that's just after reading the Editorial reviews posted at the Amazon "Buddha's Brain" web page...I invite interested readers to begin their research on "Buddha's Brain" right here.
These reviewers are each of them truely Awakened Beings in their various fields...and my respect for their depth and breadth of knowledge and subsequent praise for Rick's book...are a recommendation unlike any other...and I find myself at a loss for words to add anything to what they have generously shared with all of us about this book.
What I can share from my own experience in reading the book though, is the profound way my understanding has changed about my own mind. Rick has laid bare for me it's intricate mechanisms...and in learning how to work with these systems for myself...I have come to an absolutley new relationship with myself...and by natural projection...with all the world. Rick has so skillfully and even lovingly I might say...midwifed this amazing transformation for me. It has been a journey deep deep inside not only the far reaches of my brain and psyche...but into the sometimes impenatrable depths of my soul. What I have found when I got there was not the "Nothingness" that is sometimes spoken of in Buddhist teachings...but instead...an amazing "Everythingness". I really can say that "Buddha's Brain" split apart any and all misconceptions that I have clung to so dearly in my mind as to "Who" I have always "Thought" I was...alone, seperate, lost, amongst them. Now I understand the nature of how those misconceptions have arisen in my neurobiology and in my conditioned experience, and how that has gone on to mold my sense and experience of self. With Rick's wonderful guidance in this book...I've found not only a sure path to the truth of who I am...but also the possibility of creating for myself the opportunity to be happy, joyful, safe, and connected to everything and everyone...to be a part of the "Everythingness" of it all.
Deep Deep Bows to you Rick for guiding me along this journey into the Heart and Mind and Soul of what it means to be human...and perhaps evn more importantly...into the understanding of what it means to be Me.
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