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| Chapters Containing Testable Hypotheses | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| By Way of Introduction | |
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| Starting to Point toward Zen | |
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| Is There Any Common Ground between Zen and the Brain? | |
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| A Brief Outline of Zen History | |
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| But What Is Zen? | |
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| Mysticism, Zen, Religion, and Neuroscience | |
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| Western Perspectives on Mystical Experiences | |
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| Is Mysticism a Kind of Schizophrenia in Disguise? | |
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| The Semantics of Self | |
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| Constructing Our Self | |
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| Some ABCs of the I-Me-Mine | |
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| The Zen Mirror: Beyond Narcissism and Depersonalization | |
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| Where Does Zen Think It's Coming From? | |
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| Meditating | |
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| What Is Meditation? | |
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| Ryoko-in, Kyoto, 1974 | |
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| Zazen at Ryoko-in | |
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| Attention | |
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| The Attentive Art of Meditation | |
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| Restraint and Renunciation | |
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| Zen Meditative Techniques and Skills | |
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| Physiological Changes during Meditation | |
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| Brain Waves and Their Limitations | |
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| The EEG in Meditation | |
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| Breathing In; Breathing Out | |
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| The Effects of Sensorimotor Deprivation | |
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| Monks and Clicks: Habituation | |
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| The Koan and Sanzen: Kyoto, 1974 | |
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| A Quest for Non-Answers: Mondo and Koan | |
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| The Roshi | |
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| The Mindful, Introspective Path toward Insight | |
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| Inkblots, Blind Spots, and High Spots | |
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| Sesshin and Teisho at Ryoko-in, 1974 | |
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| Sesshin | |
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| The Meditative Approach to the Dissolution of the Self | |
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| Neurologizing | |
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| Brain in Overview: The Large of It | |
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| Brain in Overview: The Small of It | |
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| Brain in Overview: Coordinated Networks Synthesizing Higher Functions | |
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| The Orienting Reflex and Activation | |
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| Arousal Pathways in the Reticular Formation and Beyond | |
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| Acetylcholine Systems | |
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| The Septum and Pleasure | |
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| The Attachments of the Cingulate Gyrus | |
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| The Amygdala and Fear | |
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| Remembrances and the Hippocampus | |
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| Visceral Drives and the Hypothalamus | |
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| Biogenic Amines: Three Systems | |
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| GABA and Inhibition | |
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| Peptides | |
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| The Brain's Own Opioids | |
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| Ripples in the Next Cell: Second and Third Messengers | |
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| The Aplysia Withdraws | |
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| Matters of Taste | |
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| The Mouse in Victory and Defeat | |
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| The Central Gray: Offense, Defense, and Loss of Pain | |
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| The Third Route: Stress Responses within the Brain | |
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| The Large Visual Brain | |
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| Where Is It? The Parietal Lobe Pathway | |
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| What Is It? The Temporal Lobe Pathway | |
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| What Should I Do About It? The Frontal Lobes | |
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| Ripples in Larger Systems: Laying Down and Retrieving Memories | |
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| The Thalamus | |
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| The Reticular Nucleus | |
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| The Pulvinar | |
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| Higher Mechanisms of Attention | |
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| Looking, and Seeing Preattentively | |
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| Laboratory Correlates of Awareness, Attention, Novelty, and Surprise | |
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| Biological Theories: What Causes Mystical Experiences? How Does Meditation Act? | |
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| Problems with Words: "Mind" | |
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| Ordinary Forms of Conscious Awareness | |
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| Variations on the Theme of Consciousness | |
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| Alternate States of Consciousness: Avenues of Entry | |
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| The Architecture of Sleep | |
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| Desynchronized Sleep | |
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| Other Perspectives in Dreams | |
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| Lucid Dreaming | |
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| Conditioning: Learning and Unlearning | |
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| Other Ways to Change Behavior | |
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| The Awakening from Hibernation | |
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| Tidal Rhythms and Biological Clocks | |
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| The Roots of Our Emotions | |
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| The Spread of Positive Feeling States | |
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| Pain and the Relief of Pain | |
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| Suffering and the Relief of Suffering | |
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| Bridging the Two Hemispheres | |
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| The Pregnant Meditative Pause | |
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| Quickening | |
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| Side Effects of Meditation: Makyo | |
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| The Light | |
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| Bright Lights and Blank Vision | |
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| Faces in the Fire: Illusions and Hallucinations | |
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| Stimulating Human Brains | |
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| The Ins and Outs of Imagery | |
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| The Tachistoscope | |
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| The Descent of Charles Darwin: Computer Parallels | |
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| Bytes of Memory | |
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| Where Is the Phantom Limb? | |
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| The Feel of Two Hands | |
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| The Attentive Cat | |
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| Emotionalized Awareness without Sensate Loss | |
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| Seizures, Religious Experience, and Patterns of Behavior | |
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| The Fleeting "Truths" of Nitrous Oxide | |
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| The Roots of Laughter | |
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| How Do Psychedelic and Certain Other Drugs Affect the Brain? | |
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| Levels and Sequences of Psychedelic Experiences after LSD | |
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| The Miracle of Marsh Chapel | |
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| How Do Psychedelic Drugs Affect Amine Receptors? | |
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| Near-Death Experiences; Far-Death Attitudes | |
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| Triggers | |
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| The Surge | |
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| First Zen-Brain Mondo | |
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| Turning In: The Absorptions | |
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| Vacuum Plenum: Kyoto, December 1974 | |
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| The Leaf: Coda | |
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| The Semantics of Samadhi | |
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| The Vacuum Plenum of Absorption: An Agenda of Events to Be Explained | |
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| The Plunge: Blankness, Then Blackness | |
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| The Hallucinated Leaf | |
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| Space | |
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| The Ascent of Charles Lindbergh: Ambient Vision | |
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| The Ambient Vision of Meditative Absorption | |
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| The Sound of Silence | |
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| The Loss of the Self in Clear, Held Awareness | |
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| The Warm Affective Tone | |
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| Motor and Other Residues of Internal Absorption | |
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| The When and Where of Time | |
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| Gateway to Paradox | |
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| Second Zen-Brain Mondo | |
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| Turning Out: The Awakenings | |
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| Dimensions of Meaning | |
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| Authentic Meanings within Wide-Open Boundaries | |
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| Word Problems: "Oneness" and "Unity" | |
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| How Often Does Enlightenment Occur? | |
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| A Taste of Kensho: London, 1982 | |
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| What Is My Original Face? | |
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| Major Characteristics of Insight-Wisdom in Kensho | |
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| Prajna: Insight-Wisdom | |
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| Suchness | |
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| Direct Perception of the Eternally Perfect World | |
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| The Construction of Time | |
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| The Dissolution of Time | |
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| The Death of Fear | |
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| Emptiness | |
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| Objective Vision: The Lunar View | |
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| Are There Levels and Sequences of "Nonattainment"? | |
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| Preludes with Potential: Dark Nights and Depressions | |
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| Operational Differences between Absorption and Insight-Wisdom | |
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| Reflections on Kensho, Personal and Neurological | |
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| Selective Mechanisms Underlying Kensho | |
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| Third Zen-Brain Mondo | |
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| Being and Beyond: To the Stage of Ongoing Enlightenment | |
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| The State of Ultimate Pure Being | |
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| The Power of Silence | |
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| Beyond Sudden States of Enlightenment | |
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| The Exceptional Stage of Ongoing Enlightened Traits | |
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| Simplicity and Stability | |
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| An Ethical Base of Zen? | |
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| Compassion, the Native Virtue | |
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| Etching In and Out | |
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| Aging in the Brain | |
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| The Celebration of Nature | |
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| Expressing Zen in Action | |
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| The Other Side of Zen | |
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| Still-Evolving Brains in Still-Evolving Societies | |
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| Commentary on the Trait Change of Ongoing Enlightenment | |
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| In Closing | |
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| Introduction to the Heart Sutra | |
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| Selections from Affirmation of Faith in Mind | |
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| Suggested Further Reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References and Notes | |
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| Source Notes | |
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| Index | |