{"product_id":"living-zen-remindfully-james-h-austin-9780262535328","title":"Living Zen Remindfully: Retraining Subconscious Awareness","description":"\u003cb\u003eA seasoned Zen practitioner and neurologist looks more deeply at mindfulness, connecting it to our subconscious and to memory and creativity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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\u003ci\u003e Living Zen Remindfully\u003c\/i\u003e, James Austin, author of the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eZen and the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e, describes authentic Zen training--the commitment to a process of regular, ongoing \u003ci\u003edaily life practice\u003c\/i\u003e. This training process enables us to unlearn unfruitful habits, develop more wholesome ones, and lead a more genuinely creative life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAustin 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. \u003ci\u003eRemindfulness\u003c\/i\u003e, as Austin terms it, can help us to adapt more effectively and to live more authentic lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAustin discusses different types of meditation, meditation and problem-solving, and the meaning of enlightenment. He addresses egocentrism (self-centeredness) and allocentrism (other-centeredness), and the blending of focal and global attention. He explains the remarkable processes that encode, store, and retrieve our memories, focusing on the covert, helpful \u003ci\u003eremindful\u003c\/i\u003e processes incubating at subconscious levels. And he considers the illuminating confluence of Zen, clinical neurology, and neuroscience. Finally, he describes an everyday life of \"living Zen,\" drawing on the poetry of Basho, the seventeenth-century haiku master.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James H. Austin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262535327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262535328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d","brand":"James H. Austin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946374562047,"sku":"9780262535328","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1c63cbec-b291-422d-94f9-bcc6cc403fce.jpg?v=1681512785","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-zen-remindfully-james-h-austin-9780262535328","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}