Matthieu Ricard Wolf Singer SIGNED Beyond The Self Buddhism Neuroscience Buddha

Beyond the Self: Conversations Between Buddhism and Neuroscience by  Matthieu Ricard & Wolf Singer

SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS ON THE TITLE PAGE (without dedication); The MIT  Press, 2017 1st ed/1st printing, 282pp., text generally in decent order  albeit with very small creases to the top corners of a few of the pages &  slight creasing to some of the page edges at the top & bottom, boards just  a tad warped, bumping & rubbing to top & bottom of spine, the dust jacket  has a crease to the left hand side of the inside front blurb (with the  result that it is not the snuggest of fits), some edge wear (notably to the  base of the spine & to the rear top right hand side), both front & rear  have some marks & scratches.

Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the  unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.

Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it  has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through  penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on  third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation. In this book,  Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk trained as a molecular biologist, and Wolf  Singer, a distinguished neuroscientist close friends, continuing an ongoing  dialogue offer their perspectives on the mind, the self, consciousness, the
unconscious, free will, epistemology, meditation, and neuroplasticity.

Ricard and Singer's wide-ranging conversation stages an enlightening and  engaging encounter between Buddhism's wealth of experiential findings and  neuroscience's abundance of experimental results. They discuss, among many  other things, the difference between rumination and meditation (rumination  is the scourge of meditation, but psychotherapy depends on it); the  distinction between pure awareness and its contents; the Buddhist idea (or  lack of one) of the unconscious and neuroscience's precise criteria for  conscious and unconscious processes; and the commonalities between  cognitive behavioural  therapy and meditation. Their views diverge (Ricard asserts that the  third-person approach will never encounter consciousness as a primary  experience) and converge (Singer points out that the neuroscientific  understanding of perception as reconstruction is very like the Buddhist
all-discriminating wisdom) but both keep their vision trained on  understanding fundamental aspects of human life.


Matthieu Ricard (born 15 February 1946) is a French writer, photographer,  translator and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling  Monastery in Nepal. Matthieu Ricard grew up among the personalities and  ideas of French intellectual circles. He received a PhD degree in molecular  genetics from the Pasteur Institute in 1972. He then decided to forsake his  scientific career and instead practice Tibetan Buddhism, living mainly in  the Himalayas. Ricard is a board member of the Mind and Life Institute. He
received the French National Order of Merit for his humanitarian work in  the East with Karuna-Shechen, the non-profit organization he co-founded in  2000 with Rabjam Rinpoche. Since 1989, he has acted as the French  interpreter for the 14th Dalai Lama. Since 2010, he has been travelling and  giving a series of talks with and assisting in teachings by Dilgo Khyentse  Rinpoche, the incarnation of Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.


Wolf Joachim Singer (born 9 March 1943) is a German neurophysiologist. The  aim of the work of his neurophysiological department is to elucidate the  neuronal processes in the case of so-called higher cognitive performance,  such as in the case of visual perception, in memory, or in other ways of  cognition. In his institute, among other things, the emergence of visual  disorder amblyopia is also being studied. In the neurophysiological  research community, Singer is internationally known for his research and  reflections on the physiological basis of attention and identification  procedures. The institute, with its technically elaborate experiments, is  primarily concerned with the binding problem, where the question is at the  centre of how different sensory aspects of an object – form, colour,
hardness, weight, smell, etc. - can be combined into a single object  experience. The theory is based, among others, on the works by Christoph  von der Malsburg. It attaches great importance to the temporal  synchronicity of neuronal activity in the cortex. Corresponding oscillator  frequencies of the nerve cells would then refer to the same object, while  other frequencies would mark other objects.  Singer represents a naturalistic interpretation of neurophysiological data  and strives to make the results of brain research known to the public.  Singer is a board member of the Mind & Life Institute.


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• Condition: Good
• Ex Libris: No
• Narrative Type: Non-Fiction
• Personalised: No
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Inscribed: Yes
• Features: Signed Copy, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
• Original Language: English
• Signed: Yes
• Signed By: both authors
• Edition: First Edition
• Genre: Spirituality
• ISBN: 9780262036948
• EAN: 9780262036948
• Publication Year: 2017
• Type: Textbook
• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Book Title: Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience
• Item Height: 229mm
• Author: Matthieu Ricard, Wolf Singer
• Publisher: MIT Press LTD
• Topic: Popular Philosophy, Biology
• Item Width: 152mm
• Number of Pages: 296 Pages