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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- By Way of a Personal Introduction
- Part I On the Path of Meditation
- 1 Can Meditation Enhance Creative Problem-Solving Skills? A Progress Report
- 2 In Zen, What Does It Mean “To Be Enlightened”?
- 3 Developing Traits of Character on the Way to Altruism
- Part II Implications of a Self–Other Continuum
- 4The Self: A Primer
- 5 Emerging Concepts in Self–Other Relationships
- 6 Early Distinctions between Self and Other, Focal and Global, Are Coded in the Medial Temporal Lobe
- Part III Aspects of Memory
- 7 Remindfulness
- 8 A Remindful Route through the Nucleus Reuniens
- 9 A Disorder Called Transient Global Amnesia
- 10 Remindful Zen: An Auditory “Altar Ego”?
- 11 Following an Auditory Stimulus, Then “Seeing the Light”
- 12 Turning
- 13 Revisiting Kensho, March 1982
- Part IV Neurologizing
- 14A Mondo in Clinical Neurology
- 15 Two Key Gyri, a Notable Sulcus, and the Wandering Cranial Nerve
- 16 Paradox: The Maple Leaf Way Up in Ambient Space
- 17 The Nitric Oxide Connection
- 18 “Pop-Out”
- 19 Keeping Your Eye on the Ball
- Part V Living Zen
- 20What Is Living Zen?
- 21 Sometimes, Zen Is “For the Birds”
- 22 Basho, the Haiku Poet
- 23 Basho’s States of Consciousness
- 24 Zen and the Daily-Life Incremental Training of Basho’s Attention
- 25 A Story about Wild Birds, Transformed Attitudes, and a Supervisory Self
- In Closing
- Appendix A: Back to Nature: Pausing in Awe
- Appendix B: Reminders: The Crucial Role of Inhibitory Neurons and Messenger Molecules in Atentional Processing
- Appendix C: Magnetoencephalography
- Appendix D: Difusion-Weighted Imaging
- Appendix E: Some Newer Methods of fMRI Analysis
- Appendix F: The Enso on This Cover
- Appendix G: Word Problems
- Index
(p.225) Appendix D: Difusion-Weighted Imaging
(p.225) Appendix D: Difusion-Weighted Imaging
- Source:
- Living Zen Remindfully
- Author(s):
James H. Austin
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- By Way of a Personal Introduction
- Part I On the Path of Meditation
- 1 Can Meditation Enhance Creative Problem-Solving Skills? A Progress Report
- 2 In Zen, What Does It Mean “To Be Enlightened”?
- 3 Developing Traits of Character on the Way to Altruism
- Part II Implications of a Self–Other Continuum
- 4The Self: A Primer
- 5 Emerging Concepts in Self–Other Relationships
- 6 Early Distinctions between Self and Other, Focal and Global, Are Coded in the Medial Temporal Lobe
- Part III Aspects of Memory
- 7 Remindfulness
- 8 A Remindful Route through the Nucleus Reuniens
- 9 A Disorder Called Transient Global Amnesia
- 10 Remindful Zen: An Auditory “Altar Ego”?
- 11 Following an Auditory Stimulus, Then “Seeing the Light”
- 12 Turning
- 13 Revisiting Kensho, March 1982
- Part IV Neurologizing
- 14A Mondo in Clinical Neurology
- 15 Two Key Gyri, a Notable Sulcus, and the Wandering Cranial Nerve
- 16 Paradox: The Maple Leaf Way Up in Ambient Space
- 17 The Nitric Oxide Connection
- 18 “Pop-Out”
- 19 Keeping Your Eye on the Ball
- Part V Living Zen
- 20What Is Living Zen?
- 21 Sometimes, Zen Is “For the Birds”
- 22 Basho, the Haiku Poet
- 23 Basho’s States of Consciousness
- 24 Zen and the Daily-Life Incremental Training of Basho’s Attention
- 25 A Story about Wild Birds, Transformed Attitudes, and a Supervisory Self
- In Closing
- Appendix A: Back to Nature: Pausing in Awe
- Appendix B: Reminders: The Crucial Role of Inhibitory Neurons and Messenger Molecules in Atentional Processing
- Appendix C: Magnetoencephalography
- Appendix D: Difusion-Weighted Imaging
- Appendix E: Some Newer Methods of fMRI Analysis
- Appendix F: The Enso on This Cover
- Appendix G: Word Problems
- Index
