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Susan Blackmore (1951-) 
 

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<TD><a
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Rszlet Susan Blackmore: A mmgpezet c. knyvbl 
Greguss Ferenc fordtsa

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<TD><a href="https://terebess.hu/english/attention.html"
target="_blank">Paying Attention, 1995 </a> 
 
<a href="https://terebess.hu/english/meme.html"
target="_blank">Waking from the Meme Dream, 1996 </a>
<a href="SusanBlackmore-MemeMachine.pdf"
target="_blank">The Meme Machine, 1999 </a>
<a href="#a">Ten Zen Questions, 2009 </a> 
 [Zen and the Art of Consciousness, 2011]
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<a
name="a" id="a"></a>Ten Zen Questions
 
Oxford, Oneworld Publications, 2009.
224 p. 
The paperback edition of Ten Zen Questions is now published with the
new title of 
"Zen and the Art of Consciousness", 2011 
I
have been practising Zen for nearly thirty years; not as a Buddhist, but as a
scientist with a great dislike of religions and dogma. Fortunately Zen lends
itself to deep inquiry and a rejection of orthodoxy and so I have managed not to
rebel but to learn from its traditional techniques of calming the mind and
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looking into the nature of experience. 
In this book I bring together my scientific training with my Zen
practice to delve into ten great questions. Among them are Who is asking the
question? and Am I conscious now as well as some traditional Zen koans. The
aim of the book is to see whether personal experience can help penetrate the
scientific mystery of consciousness. Many neuroscientists and philosophers
working on consciousness believe that a first person approach should be able to
do so, but few have attempted to bridge the gulf between science and personal
practice. 
The book begins with two introductory chapters; Falling into Zen
 describes my own practice and how I set about tackling the questions, and
The problem of consciousness outlines the scientific and philosophical
issues at stake. There are then ten chapters devoted to the questions, a very
brief conclusion and, finally, a critical commentary from my own Zen teacher.

I
found struggling with these questions an enormous challenge. The idea of writing
about them is not to provide final answers but to show how intellectual inquiry
and meditational inquiry can be brought together to tackle some question that
are, at the moment, real mysteries for science. 
 
Contents
Preface/acknowledgements 
Falling into Zen 
The problem of consciousness
[Excerpt on
Spiritual Naturalist website:] 
<a href="http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Tenzen/question1.htm"
target="_blank">1. Am I conscious now? 
</a><a href="http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Tenzen/question2.htm"
target="_blank">2. What was I conscious of a moment ago? 
target="_blank">3. Who is asking the question? 
target="_blank">4. Where is this? 
target="_blank">5. How does thought arise? 
target="_blank">6. There is no time 
</a><a
href="http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Tenzen/question7.htm"
target="_blank">7. When are you? 
href="http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Tenzen/question8.htm"
target="_blank">8. Are you here now? 
href="http://spiritualnaturalistsociety.org/what-am-i-doing/" target="_blank">9.
What am I doing? </a>
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10. What
next? 
Being
conscious 
Response of a
Zen Master 
Further
reading 
Index

 
 Susan Blackmore
discusses the 10 zen questions considered in her recent book, Zen and the Art of
Consciousness. Although they appear simple, the questions may be more tricky
than you think, as Susan reveals. 
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 <a
href="https://soundcloud.com/oneworld-books/what-happens-next"
target="_blank">What happens next? </a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oneworld-books/what-am-i-doing"
target="_blank">What am I doing? </a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oneworld-books/are-you-here-now"
target="_blank">Are you here now? </a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oneworld-books/when-are-you"
target="_blank">When are you? </a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oneworld-books/there-is-no-time-what-is"
target="_blank">There is no time. What is memory? </a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oneworld-books/how-does-thought-arise"
target="_blank">How does thought arise? </a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oneworld-books/where-is-this"
target="_blank">Where is this? </a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oneworld-books/who-is-asking-the-question"
target="_blank">Who is asking the question? </a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oneworld-books/what-was-i-conscious-of-a"
target="_blank">What was I conscious of a moment ago? </a> 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oneworld-books/am-i-conscious-now"
target="_blank">Am I conscious now? </a> 
</blockquote>
<a href="http://tenzenbookblog.wordpress.com/"
target="_blank">http://tenzenbookblog.wordpress.com/</a> 
<a href="http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Tenzen/index.htm"
target="_blank">http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Tenzen/index.htm</a> 
<a href="http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Zen/intro.htm"
target="_blank">http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Zen/intro.htm</a>
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