UID:
almahu_9949385588302882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages)
ISBN:
9781000605396
,
1000605396
,
9781003219057
,
1003219055
,
1000605477
,
9781000605471
Content:
This book offers an original phenomenological description of mindfulness and related phenomena, such as concentration (samdhi) and the practice of insight (vipassan). It demonstrates that phenomenological method has the power to reanimate ancient Buddhist texts, giving new life to the phenomena at which those texts point. Beginning with descriptions of how mindfulness is encountered in everyday, pre-philosophical life, the book moves on to an analysis of how the Pali Nikyas of Theravada Buddhism define mindfulness and the practice of cultivating it. It then offers a critique of the contemporary attempts to explain mindfulness as a kind of attention. The author argues that mindfulness is not attention, nor can it be understood as a mere modification of the attentive process. Rather, becoming mindful involves a radical shift in perspective. According to the author's account, being mindful is the feeling of being tuned-in to the open horizon, which is contrasted with Edmund Husserl's transcendental horizon. The book also elucidates the difference between the practice of cultivating mindfulness with the practice of the phenomenological epoch, which reveals new possibilities for the practice of phenomenology itself. Phenomenological Reflections on Mindfulness in theBuddhist Tradition will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in phenomenology, Buddhist philosophy, and comparative philosophy.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 1032107189
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032107189
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1032112492
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032112497
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003219057
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003219057
