Protean Brain The Protean Brain is the name for our neuroplastic brain. The brain can alter itself like malleable plastic, and changes itself as we experience new things, take new medications, or think a certain way. These changes do not happen rapidly however, they happen overtime, and are built by repetition in our lives. These habits are oftentimes onset at birth, that is to say that we have a built in base level for most emotions in our lives, we have a base happiness, a base sadness and so on. As we live however, we can alter these base characteristics over time. The western approach to making permanent changes in the brain relies on drugs. For depression, take a Prozac, and for an overactive mind, Ritalin. While the drugs are effective,
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It can be translated to mean the womb or seed (of the Buddha). In short, it tells that all animals and humans have within them the seed of the Buddha. They contain everything necessary to reach enlightenment. Even though every animal and person is filled with man imperfections, they still poses the three bodies of the buddhas (the trikaya), the buddhas spirit, and the meditation abilities of the buddha. Tathagatagarbha also states that all living things have a storehouse for the conciousne mind. The storehouse is like the beyond the subconcious, it is the awareness of the subconcious. It poses the last barrier to Nirvana. The Tathagatagarbha did not penetrete into indian buddhism, and it was believed and taught primarily in Eastern Asia.
Dogen
Dōgen Zenji was a Buddhist teacher, priest, and writer that lived from 1200-1253 BCE. He founded the Soto Zen school in Japan, and contributed many great writings to Buddhism. He preached that everything, from humans, to trees and time has an inner Buddha nature, as well as posses Dharma. He taught that the structure and rigors of practice were not the way to achieve enlightenment, but only after passing over and through those could one finally find their true inner …show more content…
In Buddhism, the mind and the brain are different. The mind is the “self awareness” that all of us poses, the inante mind it is sometimes called. The brain serves to regulate the body, and to react when the cognitive mind is to slow. The two halves do interact with each other, and effect the way the other functions. When you are sick, it effects mental states, and when you are nervous, your heart beats faster. All of the minds interaction comes from the innate mind however. In Neuroscience, these are one in the same. In neruoscience, all the minds interactions, thoughts and ideas come from the brain. It is possible to change the brain through environment, thoughts, emotions, and actions. They are all one cohesive unit, that is ultimately an array of neurons firing. Buddhism posses more experience dealing with the brain as something can be controlled however. It is possible, through meditation, and careful awareness of ones thoughts, to change a persons emotions, moods, or even temperament. Hopefully as science and Buddhism continue to colaborate and learn from eachother, we can gain even more effective control over emotions, leaving us ultimently happier, and
It can be translated to mean the womb or seed (of the Buddha). In short, it tells that all animals and humans have within them the seed of the Buddha. They contain everything necessary to reach enlightenment. Even though every animal and person is filled with man imperfections, they still poses the three bodies of the buddhas (the trikaya), the buddhas spirit, and the meditation abilities of the buddha. Tathagatagarbha also states that all living things have a storehouse for the conciousne mind. The storehouse is like the beyond the subconcious, it is the awareness of the subconcious. It poses the last barrier to Nirvana. The Tathagatagarbha did not penetrete into indian buddhism, and it was believed and taught primarily in Eastern Asia.
Dogen
Dōgen Zenji was a Buddhist teacher, priest, and writer that lived from 1200-1253 BCE. He founded the Soto Zen school in Japan, and contributed many great writings to Buddhism. He preached that everything, from humans, to trees and time has an inner Buddha nature, as well as posses Dharma. He taught that the structure and rigors of practice were not the way to achieve enlightenment, but only after passing over and through those could one finally find their true inner …show more content…
In Buddhism, the mind and the brain are different. The mind is the “self awareness” that all of us poses, the inante mind it is sometimes called. The brain serves to regulate the body, and to react when the cognitive mind is to slow. The two halves do interact with each other, and effect the way the other functions. When you are sick, it effects mental states, and when you are nervous, your heart beats faster. All of the minds interaction comes from the innate mind however. In Neuroscience, these are one in the same. In neruoscience, all the minds interactions, thoughts and ideas come from the brain. It is possible to change the brain through environment, thoughts, emotions, and actions. They are all one cohesive unit, that is ultimately an array of neurons firing. Buddhism posses more experience dealing with the brain as something can be controlled however. It is possible, through meditation, and careful awareness of ones thoughts, to change a persons emotions, moods, or even temperament. Hopefully as science and Buddhism continue to colaborate and learn from eachother, we can gain even more effective control over emotions, leaving us ultimently happier, and