Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

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Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom Overview

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

Customer Reviews

This is one of the most amazing books that change the life I have ever read, and I read a lot of my 51 years on. And 'the only book I have ever taken the time the reviews on Amazon and I'd give it 100 stars if I could. The pooling of knowledge from the fields of psychology, neurology, and contemplative practice, teach them how to create more happiness, joy and love in our lives. All this is created on the latest western scientific research and thousands of base-year-old wisdom, and not downwardthe imagination of the entrepreneurs of a new era. The authors describe how thousands of generations of social pressures and ecological and evolutionary wired to our brain at work, how do like them and can use our minds to change our brains in order to better manage stress and more peace and joy live. The effect makes the work stimulated by this book has the potential to profoundly improve the quality of their lives, and all contacts, and for the changeCourse of evolution of our species. As Rick says () in this interview, we have the brain of a cave-man with nuclear weapons capability. We must learn to love more, knowing, self-care and in how we treat the earth, if we grow as a species, and this book provides practical tools, how to do this. I have some of these ideas in the classes I teach, and many of my students have bought the book too. The authors also have a websitemany great, free, down downloadable items which are closer to the ideas.

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