While I have to admit to having only the most passing interest in the scientific investigation of meditation, even my own beloved Zen meditation, that doesn’t mean I don’t think it important.
And some good news for those with such a turn of mind, there is a fast growing literature.
Neuroscientist James Austin has done yeoman’s work surveying that literature in his two books Zen and the Brain and Zen-Brain Reflections. Anyone interested in the subject will find a wealth of information in these studies.
And now one of my favorite bloggers, Danny Fisher points out what looks to be the latest of relevant scientific papers, Thinking about Not-Thinking: Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation.
I bet Jim has already catalogued it for his next volume…
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