Buddhism/Psychology/Science
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BALANCING THE MIND: A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Refining Attention by B. Alan Wallace 336 pp. #BAMI - regular price $ 18.95 Our Price $15.16 Published by Snow Lion "For centuries Tibetan Buddhist contemplatives have directly explored consciousness through carefully honed and rigorous techniques of meditation. B. Alan Wallace explains the methods and experiences of Tibetan practitioners and compares these with investigations of consciousness by Western scientists and philosophers. Balancing the Mind includes a translation of the classic discussion of methods for developing exceptionally high degrees of attentional stability and clarity by fifteenth-century Tibetan contemplative Tsongkhapa."--Mandala Magazine More ... | |
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CHOOSING REALITY: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind, 2nd ed. by B. Alan Wallace 232 pp. 2nd ed. #CHRE2N - regular price $ 18.95 Our Price $15.16 Published by Snow Lion Choosing Reality shows how Buddhist contemplative methods of investigating reality are relevant for modern physics and psychology. How shall we understand the relationship between the way we experience reality and the way science describes it? In examining this question, Alan Wallace discusses two opposing views: the realist view, which argues that scientific theories represent objective reality, and the instrumentalist view, which states that concepts cannot describe what exists independently of them. Finding both of these philosophies of science inadequate, the author explores the Buddhist middle way view and the relevance for modern physics of Buddhist contemplative methods of investigating reality. He also examines the ideas of body, mind, and reincarnation from the viewpoint of Tibetan Buddhism. Our designer's favorite book! More ... | |
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CONSCIOUSNESS AT THE CROSSROADS: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism by The Dalai Lama, et al., ed. by Zara Houshmand, Robert B. Livingston and B. Alan Wallace, trans. by Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace, afterword by B. Alan Wallace 185 pp. #COCR - regular price $ 15.95 Our Price $12.76 Published by Snow Lion Organized by the Mind and Life Institute, this discussion addresses some of the most troublesome questions that have driven a wedge between Western science and religion. Consciousness at the Crossroads resulted from meetings of the Dalai Lama and a group of eminent neuroscientists and psychiatrists. Is the mind an ephemeral side-effect of the brain's physical processes? Are there forms of consciousness so subtle that science has not yet identified them? How does consciousness happen? The Dalai Lama's incisive, clear approach and open-minded pursuit of knowledge both challenges and offers inspiration to Western scientists. More ... | |
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BUDDHIST TANTRA by Rob Preece 276 pp., 18 line drawings, 7 diagrams. #PSBUTA - regular price $ 18.95 Our Price $15.16 Published by Snow Lion This book masterfully succeeds in clarifying the nature of tantric practice. In contrast to the approaches of conventional religion, tantra does not attempt to soothe the turmoil of existence with consoling promises of heaven and salvation. The tantric practitioner chooses to confront the bewildering and chaotic forces of fear, aggression, desire, aphand pride, and to work with them in such a way that they are channeled into creative expression, loving relationships, and wisely engaged forms of life. More ... | |
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TWO VIEWS OF MIND: Abhidharma and Brain Science by Christopher deCharms 250 pp. #TWVIMI - regular price $ 19.95 Our Price $15.96 Published by Snow Lion A clear overview of perception, thought, and awareness in Tibetan Buddhist psychology and in Western neuroscience. DeCharms lays out the Buddhist theory of perception side-by-side with the scientific view of Western neuroscience on the brain activity of human cognition. He discovers insights from each system that suggest exciting new approaches to perennial problems that the other has not been able to resolve. Directed to non-specialists, he focuses on the differences between the two traditions in methodology, assumptions, and purpose. "DeCharms provides illuminating comparisons between the two systems of knowledge and proposes ways that further discussion could be of mutual benefit."--Choice More ... | |
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VINEGAR INTO HONEY: Seven Steps to Understanding and Transforming Anger, Aggression, and Violence by Ron Leifer, M.D. 144 pp. #VIHOSE - regular price $ 14.95 Our Price $11.96 Published by Snow Lion Our desires and our fears are woven into a tangled web of conflicts. We want both to eat dessert and to be thin. We want money but don’t want to work. Anything that threatens our sense of self and its striving for happiness is perceived as a threat to our very lives—the response to which is defensiveness, anger, aggression, and violence. More ... | |
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THE WISDOM OF IMPERFECTION: The Challenge of Individuation in Buddhist Life by Rob Preece 335 pp., paper. #WIIM - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion If you have been practicing Buddhism for a while, why do you still have problems? And how do you balance the (apparently) sometimes different needs of spiritual and psychological perspectives? This wonderful book fills a hitherto unmet need among Buddhists. More ... | |
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THE ATTENTION REVOLUTION: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind by B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. 208 pp. #ATREUN - $ 16.95 How can we learn to really focus our minds? Wallace, well-known author and key speaker in the Mind-Life conferences with the Dalai Lama, offers systematic methods of achieving clarity and attention in both our waking and dreaming lives. An exciting, rewarding "expedition of the mind." More ... | |
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BUDDHISM AND SCIENCE: Breaking New Ground ed. by B. Alan Wallace 432 pp. #BUSC - $ 33.00 Distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars (including the Dalai Lama), physicists and cognitive scientists examine the connections between Western science and Buddhism, and look at the assumptions underlying their world views. | |
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BUDDHIST PRACTICE ON WESTERN GROUND: Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology by Harvey Aronson, Ph.D 272 pp. #BUPRWE - $ 14.95 More ... | |
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BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 3 by Geshe Tashi Tsering 176 pp. #BUPSFO - $ 14.95 This new volume from the Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, provides a stand-alone and systematic ---but accessible!-- entry into how Buddhism understands the mind. Geshe Tashi, an English-speaking Tibetan monk who lives in London, was trained from boyhood in a traditional Tibetan monastery, but he is adept in communicating this classical training for a modern Western audience. More ... | |
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A CALL TO COMPASSION: Bringing Buddhist Practices of the Heart into the Soul of Psychology by Aura Glaser, fore. by Robert Thurman 256 pp. #CACOBR - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 What role can a conscious development of compassion play in psychology--Freudian, Jungian and others? This skillful weaving of story, myth, and practical advice includes clear instructions on lojong meditations. More ... | |
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COMING TO OUR SENSES: Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn 640 pp., cloth. #COTOSE - regular price $ 24.95 Our Price $19.96 Each part of this skillfully written and absolutely practical book explores a facet of self-healing and world-healing through mindful awareness--with a focus on sensescapes. A more intentional awareness of the senses allows us to live more fully and authentically by opening our connectedness with the world around us and within us. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He leads stress reduction and mindfulness workshops for health professionals and lay people world wide. This is his latest book. | |
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CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCE: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge by B. Alan Wallace Cloth, 256 pp. #COSCWH - $ 31.00 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 and Mind and Life Board member, 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 shamatha, an organized, detailed system of training the attention. Just as scientists make observations and conduct experiments with the aid of technology, contemplatives have long tested their own theories with the help of highly developed meditative skills of observation and experimentation. | |
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THE DALAI LAMA AT MIT by The Dalai Lama Cloth. 288 pp. #DALAMI - $ 24.95 Their meeting captured headlines; the waiting list for tickets was nearly 2000 names long. The Dalai Lama at MIT reveals scientists and monks reaching across a cultural divide, to share insights, studies, and enduring questions. More ... | |
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DESTRUCTIVE EMOTIONS: How Can We Overcome Them? A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Daniel Goleman 432 pp. b&w illus. #DEEMP - $ 17.00 Now available in updated paperback from the bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence, this top seller brings together cutting-edge research on brain science, education and psychology with sophisticated Buddhist practices for transforming negative emotion. Organized by the Mind and Life Institute. More ... | |
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THE EMBODIED MIND: Cognitive Science and Human Experience by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch 308 pp. #EMMI - $ 30.00 A sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be complete. They develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditative psychology and relate it to phenomenology and psychoanalysis. One of the very best treatments of Buddhism and cognitive science. | |
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EMBRACING MIND: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality by B. Alan Wallace and Brian Hodel Cloth. 256 pp. #EMMICO - $ 24.95 Both science and spirituality search for "ultimate truths." God, the Big Bang, nirvana, the theory of evolution, relativity, quantum mechanics-these are some of the concepts that have been articulated as a result of that search. But the human capacity for exploring these ultimate sources of truth--the one thing that unites science and spirituality--is often overlooked. Embracing Mind argues (1) that science has hobbled itself by ignoring its unique source of inspiration-the mind-and (2) that the schism between science and spirituality is unnecessary. In language accessible to any intelligent reader, Embracing Mind first explores the veracity of major scientific "myths," then presents a viable science of the mind emanating from contemplative spirituality, including Hindu, Christian, Sufi, and Buddhist views. More ... | |