Zen and Contemporary Knowledge: A Commentary Treatise in Question and Answer Format

This book summarizes Venerable Zen Master Thich Thong Triet’s pioneering work in using contemporary scientific knowledge to shed light on the profound Buddhist teaching and meditation practices. He identifies the brain areas that correspond to the worldly mind, wordless awareness mind and Buddha-mind taught by the Buddha. He establishes the physiological processes that link the mind, nervous system and internal organs during meditation, and explains the beneficial or harmful effects that a correct or incorrect meditation has on the body and mind. Master Thich Thong Triet's intuition was validated by the extensive f-MRI and EEG measurements of his brain activities, conducted at the University of Tübingen, Germany, while he went through various stages of Buddhist meditation.

This book also contains clear and modern explanation on the terminology, concepts and practice of Buddhist meditation. It provides guidance to the serious meditation student and helps them avoid the most common pitfalls.

For those who want to rise above a life tossed about by relentless thoughts, desires and emotions with its resulting ailing body and anguished mind, this book will give you a clear and scientific understanding that will inspire and guide you on your spiritual journey. As you diligently practice the correct meditation it teaches, you will reap in time the marvelous effects of your own Buddha-mind: lasting internal peace, infinite loving kindness and compassion, harmonious relationships, intuition, creativity, and spiritual wisdom.

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Zen and Contemporary Knowledge: A Commentary Treatise in Question and Answer Format

This book summarizes Venerable Zen Master Thich Thong Triet’s pioneering work in using contemporary scientific knowledge to shed light on the profound Buddhist teaching and meditation practices. He identifies the brain areas that correspond to the worldly mind, wordless awareness mind and Buddha-mind taught by the Buddha. He establishes the physiological processes that link the mind, nervous system and internal organs during meditation, and explains the beneficial or harmful effects that a correct or incorrect meditation has on the body and mind. Master Thich Thong Triet's intuition was validated by the extensive f-MRI and EEG measurements of his brain activities, conducted at the University of Tübingen, Germany, while he went through various stages of Buddhist meditation.

This book also contains clear and modern explanation on the terminology, concepts and practice of Buddhist meditation. It provides guidance to the serious meditation student and helps them avoid the most common pitfalls.

For those who want to rise above a life tossed about by relentless thoughts, desires and emotions with its resulting ailing body and anguished mind, this book will give you a clear and scientific understanding that will inspire and guide you on your spiritual journey. As you diligently practice the correct meditation it teaches, you will reap in time the marvelous effects of your own Buddha-mind: lasting internal peace, infinite loving kindness and compassion, harmonious relationships, intuition, creativity, and spiritual wisdom.

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Zen and Contemporary Knowledge: A Commentary Treatise in Question and Answer Format

Zen and Contemporary Knowledge: A Commentary Treatise in Question and Answer Format

by Thich Thong Triet
Zen and Contemporary Knowledge: A Commentary Treatise in Question and Answer Format

Zen and Contemporary Knowledge: A Commentary Treatise in Question and Answer Format

by Thich Thong Triet

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This book summarizes Venerable Zen Master Thich Thong Triet’s pioneering work in using contemporary scientific knowledge to shed light on the profound Buddhist teaching and meditation practices. He identifies the brain areas that correspond to the worldly mind, wordless awareness mind and Buddha-mind taught by the Buddha. He establishes the physiological processes that link the mind, nervous system and internal organs during meditation, and explains the beneficial or harmful effects that a correct or incorrect meditation has on the body and mind. Master Thich Thong Triet's intuition was validated by the extensive f-MRI and EEG measurements of his brain activities, conducted at the University of Tübingen, Germany, while he went through various stages of Buddhist meditation.

This book also contains clear and modern explanation on the terminology, concepts and practice of Buddhist meditation. It provides guidance to the serious meditation student and helps them avoid the most common pitfalls.

For those who want to rise above a life tossed about by relentless thoughts, desires and emotions with its resulting ailing body and anguished mind, this book will give you a clear and scientific understanding that will inspire and guide you on your spiritual journey. As you diligently practice the correct meditation it teaches, you will reap in time the marvelous effects of your own Buddha-mind: lasting internal peace, infinite loving kindness and compassion, harmonious relationships, intuition, creativity, and spiritual wisdom.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780998692043
Publisher: Sunyata Foundation
Publication date: 03/29/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 6 MB

Table of Contents

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Commentary Treatise 1:  Introducing the commentary Format

Commentary Treatise 2:  My Aim In Developing These Commentaries

Why I have chosen the topic

Further Reading 1: The Bāhiya Sutta

Commentary Treatise 3:  Significance of  The Subject Of This Book

Significance of the Subject of  Zen and Contemporary Knowledge

Further Reading 2: Tangible Benefits of Contemporary Knowledge

Commentary Treatise 4:  A Spiritual Science

Commentary Treatise 5:  A New Concept Of Zen Practice           

Commentary Treatise 6:   Four Relay Stations In The Human Brain

First Relay Station: Reticular Formation

Second Relay Station: Thalamus

Third Relay Station: Hypothalamus

Fourth Relay Station: Precuneus

Commentary Treatise 7:  THERAPEUTIC Effects of Zen on Psychological and Psychosomatic Illnesses

Therapeutic Effects of Zen on  Psychological and Psychosomatic Illnesses

Further Reading 3: Stress

Further Reading 4:  Psychosomatic Illnesses

Commentary Treatise 8:  Results of Experiments Performed On Master Reverend ThÍCH THÔNG TRIỆT

Commentary Treatise 9:  A Dream Became Reality

Ms. Minh Tuyền’s Address at the Paris’  Launch of Master’s Book in June 2008

Brain Imaging Program in Stuttgart

A New Horizon

Postface

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