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A seasoned Zen practitioner and neurologist looks more deeply at mindfulness, connecting it to our subconscious and to memory and creativity. This is a book for readers who want to probe more deeply into mindfulness. It goes beyond the casual, once-in-awhile meditation in popular culture, grounding mindfulness in daily practice, Zen teachings, and recent research in neuroscience. In Living Zen Remindfully , James Austin, author of the groundbreaking Zen and the Brain , describes authentic Zen training—the commitment to a process of regular, ongoing daily life practice . This training process enables us to unlearn unfruitful habits, develop more wholesome ones, and lead a more genuinely creative life. Austin shows that mindfulness can mean more than our being conscious of the immediate “now.” It can extend into the subconscious, where most of our brain's activities take place, invisibly. Austin suggests ways that long-term meditative training helps cultivate the hidden, affirmative resource of our unconscious memory. Remindfulness , as Austin terms it, can help us to adapt more effectively and to live more authentic lives. Austin discusses different types of meditation, meditat

Who reads Living Zen Remindfully: Retraining Subconscious Awareness (The MIT Press)?

Author

James H. Austin MD

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262336475

Category

science

Subjects

Buddhism, Science, Philosophy

Rating

4.1 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14