Selfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness
"Analytic philosophy of mind sees persons as much less substantial and ego centered than Cartesian rationalism, which posits that my essence is my immutable self, my soul. Neuroscience finds no soul, no central headquarters that is me. And Zen teaches how to flourish in a world where you are nothing rather than something. Austin's Selfless Insight takes us on an insightful tour of a certain postmodern space where we meet the Heraclitean processes that we are."--Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University and author of The Really Hard Problem