TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace,B.Alan
TI  - Mind in the balance: meditation in science, Buddhism, and Christianity 
T2  - The Columbia series in science and religion
SN  - 0231147309 (cloth : alk. paper)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Meditation
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Christianity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-232) and index; Part I: Meditation-Where It Started and How It Got Here -- Who am I? -- The origins of contemplation -- The scientific externalization of meditation -- Scientific studies of meditation -- Part II: Meditation in Theory and Practice -- Practice: attending to the breath of life -- Theory: coming to our senses -- Practice: the union of stillness and motion -- Theory: knowing and healing the mind -- Practice: behold the light of consciousness -- Theory: exploring the nature of consciousness -- Practice: probing the nature of the observer -- Theory: the ground state of consciousness -- Practice: oscillating awareness -- Theory: consciousness without beginning or end -- Practice: resting in the stillness of awareness -- Theory: worlds of skepticism -- Practice: the emptiness of mind -- Theory: the participatory worlds of Buddhism -- Practice: the emptiness of matter -- Theory: the participatory worlds of philosophy and science -- Practice: resting in timeless consciousness -- Theory: the luminous space of pristine awareness -- Practice: meditation in action -- The universe as a whole -- What shall we become?
ER  -