The book looks bad. It exudes a self-help vibe. Its cover is not designed to draw the eye; not any eye I know, though perhaps someone, somewhere finds two seated upper torsos appealing. The title is boilerplate—in English translation, anyway—that churns into nothingness under the frothing weight of modern search engines. It avoids my subtitle pet peeve of pomposity by being incredibly blunt: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience is exactly what you get. The entire book is constructed f...

I picked this book up randomly in the new release section of my library. It was mostly a good balance of both the third-person scientific perspective of the neuroscientist Wolf Singer and the first-person contemplative experience of the monk Matthieu Ricard. I would have liked less Singer and more Ricard, as the science writing is a bit dry. Singer had me rolling my eyes a fair bit in the way he tried to scientifically mansplain complex subjective experiences. But the way Ricard followed up was

Après la création de l'institut Mind & Life par Francesco Varela, et la mise au point d'un programme de réduction du stress basé sur une version laïcisée et simplifiée des traditions méditatives par le médecin américain Jon Kabat-Zin, le passage de Mathieu Ricard sous l'imagerie magnétique fonctionnelle et celle des autres moines bouddhistes qu'il a convaincu de s'y prêter a marqué une étape définitive dans la prise au sérieux de la méditation comme science contemplative (une science à la 1ere p...

Mieux vaut être déjà familier avec les notions scientifiques concernant la neurologie et les techniques de méditation avant de commencer la lecture de ce livre. Même sous forme de dialogue et avec des paragraphes-titres, il s'agit d'une lecture exigeante qui requiert beaucoup de concentration et d'attention. Les sujets abordés sont toutefois fascinants, et les exemples donnés par ces deux sommités dans leur domaine respectif pour illustrer leur propos nous éclairent heureusement un peu mieux sur...

Fascinating topic but I don't think it works well as a book. It would be much better as a series of podcasts. In my opinion.

La méditation pas à pas et à portée de main!Huit années d'échanges entre deux esprits remarquables.Un dialogue pour percer les mystères de l'esprit humain.Moine bouddhiste depuis quarante ans, Matthieu Ricard est un méditant chevronné, régulièrement sollicité par les universités du monde entier pour se prêter à des expériences sur le cerveau.Neurobiologiste, directeur émérite du Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Wolf Singer est l'un des plus grands spécialistes mondiaux du cerveau.Pendant...

Thiền định được trò chuyện, phân tích dưới góc độ của khoa học thần kinh.Phiên bản tiếng Việt mới ra mắt gần đây có tên là Vượt qua cái tôi, cuốn sách gần nhất của Matthieu Ricard, một nhà sư phật giáo mà mình dành nhiều thời gian để đọc gần đây.Matthieu giải thích về thiền, về cái tôi, về hanh phúc rất hay. Cuốn sách này thiền được phân tích dưới góc độ khoa học thực nghiệm, nhiều câu chuyện thực tế về giá trị mà thiền mang lại cho cuộc sống của chúng ta.Những phân tích về khoa học thần kinh sẽ...

L’auteur de la préface ne ment pas: c’est bien un ouvrage exigeant. C’est aussi et surtout un sacré bon coup de pied au cul. Indispensable!

Por mais que os autores tenham simplificado e explicado muito bem os termos técnicos utilizados, a leitura é um pouco difícil em certos capítulos. Mas vale a pena a leitura!Recomendo papel e lápis para anotar trechos importantes.

The book highlights the benefits of mediation and how developing a daily habit of meditating can improve our well being and experience of life. But it can be a much shorter book in my opinion

Ce livre est le fruit de la rencontre de deux esprits exceptionnels, qui nous ouvrent des portes sur de nombreux domaines traités avec précision et sagacité. Le résultat est un ouvrage dense et parfois difficile d'accès, mais plein de révélations à la croisée des chemins entre une sagesse millénaire et un domaine scientifique en constante expansion. Une danse entre la spiritualité et l'intellect dont on se délecte par petites bouchées.

This one took me some time to get through. The subject matter of the book is difficult to describe due to limitations in language and the shear breadth of fields that are necessary to truly grasp the conclusions they attempt to reach. Fields such as physics, mediation, religion, neuroscience, and more are all covered. The good news is that a reader does not need an in depth understanding of all of these in order to read this book (but it wouldn't hurt). As described below this book is a long for...

Maravilloso libro, el segundo que leo de Ricard en este formato de conversación, en esta oportunidad con Wolf Singer. Singer desde la neurociencia va contrastando cada una de los aspectos relativos al la conciencia y la meditación que plantea Ricard, a su vez los argumentos budistas de este último son impecables y el debate lógico entre ambos es una delicia. Cuenta con numerosas referencias al chileno Francisco Varela, amigo tanto de Ricard como de Singer y del Dalia Lama, todo un honor tener a

I've been looking for a book like this for awhile now. An integrative approach to meditation. The book is formatted as a long form interview between a neuroscientist and an experienced meditation practitioner (who also has a background in science). The book follows a bit of a pattern, with Wolf (the neuroscience expert ) dominating the conversation and Matthieu giving his response. While Wolf's contributions can be a bit difficult to process- it's neuroscience, Matthieu's complements them with p...

I was referred to this book from an excerpt in The Atlantic. It peaked my interest for a few reasons, the primary reason being that it is an academic conversation about the details of the agreements and disagreements between Buddhist and neuroscientific philosophies. It delves into both epistemology (considerably) and ontology. It is a technical read that requires focus and endurance but it is immensely illuminating and humbling. Any ideas you have about free will and consciousness are going to

3.75*Bản dịch Tiếng Việt dùng nhiều câu ghép 2 3 ý lại với nhau để diễn đạt làm mình rối mù lên. Với cả, cảm nhận bản thân còn thiếu nhiều kiến thức nền về não bộ để hiểu những gì Wolf nói. Chắc chắn sẽ quay lại lần 2, 3 để hiểu hơn.

This is an intellectually satisfying book.

Cuốn sách khá hay nhưng khó đọc, phải đọc chậm từng nút một mới hiểu được.

I am tempted to put this under "mysteries" in my shelves but decided on religious, which is even less correct. I didn't expect to be as fascinated by this book as I was. Recommend.

Wolf Singer and Matthieu Ricard, who live in different parts of the world meet up over the time of a decade to discuss mostly the human mind. This conversational style makes it easy to read, but not necessarily easy to understand. Often, reading a page throws you into pondering and new unanswered questions emerge and after that you are going to read it again. Even though this literature doesn't provide a lot of answers it gives interesting insights and shares experiences.