Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge (Columbia Series in Science and Religion)
By B. Alan Wallace.
Description
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 observ...
ISBN(s)
0231138350, 9780231138352
