Description: A new edition of a classic work that originated the "embodied cognition" movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.
Brief description: Francisco J. Varela (1946- 2001) was Director of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology, CREA, at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and Cofounder of the Mind and Life Institute.