Two great sages, one in the Eastern tradition of Zen and consciousness, the other in the Western tradition of experimental science, come together in this exciting book to give two complementary perspectives on the same inquiry.

The brain, this great unknown; consciousness, this blocked area of ​​human evolution; Zen practice, a path to freedom. Discovering the connection between Zen and the brain, is thus a topic of the most exciting actuality, the key to converge towards a common wisdom.

Master Deshimaru explains to us how the human being must harmonize his life with the life of the cosmos; how -to give an example- it is urgent to become aware of the relationship "cosmic energy-respiration"; how the practice of Zazen refers to meditation without movement, to Zen breathing (nothing to do with normal breathing), to mental attitude (beyond thoughts and feelings), to overcoming the ego.

Dr. Chauchard confirms that Zen is also a psychotechnic that harmonizes the body with the cosmos. In the prodigious complexity of the human brain is the material condition of the "spiritual." All dissociation must be rejected. Consciousness is body, body is consciousness. Communion with the cosmos, the basis of Eastern philosophy, turns out to be - from the point of view of Western science - a prodigious ascending energy, an energy of love.