Interesting paper on #buddhist #meditation.

I suppose that when you no longer analyse, classify grasp, judge or reject phenomena you don't need your brain to be working.

Experienced meditators can voluntarily modulate their state of consciousness, study reveals
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20231211/Experienced-meditators-can-voluntarily-modulate-their-state-of-consciousness-study-reveals.aspx

Experienced meditators can voluntarily modulate their state of consciousness, study reveals

A study reveals that experienced meditators are able to voluntarily modulate their state of consciousness during meditation, i.e. they have the unusual ability, without the use of drugs, to induce a momentary void of consciousness during cessations through large-scale modulation of brain activity.

News-Medical.net
Maybe #pristine #awareness, attained through #Dzogchen or similar vehicles, involves little or no measurable physical brain activity?