Zen and the Brain

“One of the basic tenets of meditation is the notion that passive awareness is a natural, elementary, and direct form of experience that is ordinarily overwhelmed and obscured by the activity of the mind. Various people might come to the conclusion that it is the drugs in the brain and not a religious experience, which creates a Zen enlightenment experience. It is the ability to be, the unknown, and faith that will always allow for religion to be possible. Just because the side effects of meditation could be hallucinations does not rule out the possibilities of something greater.

Some are saying that when you go into meditation, your brain is not focusing on sensory input or breathing. Even if it will be provable, it simply cannot take away from the Zen religion. Once this occurs, chemical changes are found in the brain. ve enlightenment on the subject or topic at hand. The purpose of meditation, therefore, is to allow the mind to become quiet and thereby uncover the capacity for this experience” (M. The proof of this is not conclusive though, and won’t be for quite sometime. As their work is progressing they are finding new evidence, as to why one might be able to claim that they had experienced something supernatural or mystical.