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. Once this occurs, chemical changes are found in the brain. Even if it will be provable, it simply cannot take away from the Zen religion.

Some are saying that when you go into meditation, your brain is not focusing on sensory input or breathing.

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. 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. Some scientists have been trying to develop our crude understanding of the brain. 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. The effects of these chemicals on the brain are somewhat drug-like. Many people are beginning to study the brain and what makes our state of mind. The purpose of meditation, therefore, is to allow the mind to become quiet and thereby uncover the capacity for this experience” (M. Science even wants to tackle religion these days. Just because the side effects of meditation could be hallucinations does not rule out the possibilities of something greater.

But in today’s modern world, science wants to have a say in everything.