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"Buddha's Brain is compelling, easy to read, and quite educational. The book skillfully answers the central question of each of our lives--how to be happy--by presenting the core precepts of Buddhism integrated with a primer on how our brains function. This book will be helpful to anyone wanting to understand time-tested ways of skillful living backed up by up-to-date science."
--Frederic Luskin, PhD, author of "Forgive for Good" and director of Stanford Forgiveness Projects
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<p>Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Gandhi, and the Buddha all had brains built essentially like anyone else's, yet they were able to harness their thoughts and shape their patterns of thinking in ways that changed history. With new breakthroughs in modern neuroscience and the wisdom of thousands of years of contemplative practice, it is possible for us to shape our own thoughts in a similar way for greater happiness, love, compassion, and wisdom.</P><BR><P> <B>Buddha's Brain</B> joins the forces of modern neuroscience with ancient contemplative teachings to show readers how they can work toward greater emotional well-being, healthier relationships, more effective actions, and deepened religious and spiritual understanding. This book will explain how the core elements of both psychological well-being and religious or spiritual life-virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom-are based in the core functions of the brain: regulating, learning, and valuing. Readers will also learnpractical ways to apply this information, as the book offers many exercises they can do to tap the unused potential of the brain and rewire it over time for greater peace and well-being.</p>
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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A Great Contribution,
This review is from: Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (Paperback)
This book comes as a hugely welcome, reader-friendly primer on a very important area of study. Over the last few decades, scientists, Buddhists, and scholars have renewed investigation into the resonance between science and Buddhism. Analysis of theoretical physics and Buddhism and crossover studies in Buddhism, meditation, and neuroscience are making significant progress in understanding the nature of the cosmos, the wisdom of the Buddha, the importance of meditation, and the structure of the psyche. This book manages to condense and simplify the science and the philosophy, and it offers several recommendations for meditation practice aimed at helping the reader to directly experience the knowledge.Buddha's Brain is suitable for beginner and intermediate readers or newcomers to the field of neuroscience. It is well written, balanced, and well presented. I recommend this book highly. In fact, I bought extra copies and gave them away as gifts! Enjoy! I'm waiting for the next book: Beyond the Brain!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Appreciate this book,
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Thank you to the authors of this book. I appreciate the clear, concise, reader friendly manner this book is written in. It lays the information out in a way that is useable with the practice to go with it. A winning combination. It is obvious that the book has been written in a mindful manner and can be received by the reader in the same manner. I really appreciate this. I can also share this with others, even those who are just starting to explore this subject, clients also. Thank you.
6 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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boring,
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This review is from: Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (Paperback)
i bought it. read part off it. boring. i think off it as another brain remodeling book. its been written about before. buddhist type brain remodeling books have been around for too many years.after having "done and being done" by intensive sitting practice (meditation) for at least 25 years. i learnt something. most off the time i do not know what is going on in my brain. nor in my mind. both did me well for almost 78 years. so, how would the author know what is better for it? anyway, i wanted to give the book to the library but the where not interested. they already had a large selection off "brain remodelers". i also went and listen to an evening talk given by the author. he did not say anything i had not heard from gurus, lamas, meditation teachers before. in fact i did think his representation was delivered in a "hyper" manner. walked out before the end off the talk. well life is like that. ....nothing gained...nothing lost... its early and the coffee is waiting. its also winter. Jack Oschmann
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