![]() What does Zen training emphasize during its long-term approach to meditation? First, the mindful training of attention and awareness during one's ordinary daily life activities. That said, this review proposes that neuroscientists and Zen trainees can learn a few things from each other's models of consciousness. These words by Hess suggest that the following pages will invoke neurophysiological explanations, not loose metaphysical notions. ![]() Two final concepts consider how the long-term meditative training of intuitive functions relates to certain kinds of word-free spatial tasks that involve insightful creative problem-solving. A plausible model then envisions how a triggering stimulus that captures attention could prompt the reticular nucleus to release GABA how its selective inhibition of the dorsal thalamus could then block both our higher somatic and psychic cortical functions so as to: (a) delete the maladaptive aspects of selfhood, while also (b) releasing the direct, all-inclusive, globally-unified experience of other. Subsequent concepts consider how these useful Greek words-ego/allo, soma/psyche-correlate with the normal functional anatomy of important thalamo ↔ cortical connections. Its prefix, allo- simply means “other” in Greek. The other-centered frame of reference processes information anonymously. The self-centered, egocentric frame of reference processes information in relation to our body (our soma) or to our mental functions (our psyche). ![]() Additional concepts distinguish between our two major processing pathways. ![]() They begin by distinguishing between the concentrative and receptive forms of meditation, noticing the complementary ways that they each train our normal “top–down” and “bottom–up” modes of attentive processing. In Japanese, these advanced states are called kensho and satori. ![]() This review focuses on how such a comprehensive approach to training the brain could relate to a distinctive flavor of Zen: its emphasis on direct experience, with special reference to those major acute states of awakening that create deep transformations of consciousness and behavior. 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. ![]()
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