4 papers in the library · publishing 2014-2016
Living Zen Remindfully October 21, 2016 James H. Austin
This chapter introduces the topics of meditation, creativity, how they are related to creative problem-solving skills, and updates recent research on these topics.
Living Zen Remindfully October 21, 2016 James H. Austin
This chapter recounts the evolution of the author’s benign auditory hypnopompic hallucinations over the past 12 years. They represent a memory retrieval function that can become more elaborate when meditation occurs more frequently.
Living Zen Remindfully October 21, 2016 James H. Austin
This chapter examines the circumstances surrounding episodes in Basho’s later life when he appeared to have experienced an alternate state of consciousness. Gazing upward and listening upward spontaneously have the potential to trigger such states.
Frontiers in Psychology May 22, 2014 James H. Austin
Zen Buddhist meditative practices emphasize the long-term, mindful training of attention and awareness during one’s ordinary daily-life activities, the shedding of egocentric behaviors, and the skillful application of one’s innate compassionate resources of insight-wisdom toward others and oneself.This review focuses on how such a comprehensive approach to training the brain could relate to a...