Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of Practice and Context
Behind the stereotype of a solitary meditator closing his eyes to the world, meditation always takes place in close interaction with the surrounding culture. Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of Practice and Context explores cases in which the relation between meditative practice and cultural co...
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2015
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| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Meditative Practice and Cultural Context; Transformations of the self; Tradition and modernity; Tangled interactions; Section 1 Traveling Practices; Chapter 2 The Daoist Adaptation of Buddhist Insight Meditation; Insight practice; Traditional Daoist forms; Visualization; Insight in China; Buddhist-inspired concepts; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Ignatian Visual Meditation in Seventeenth-Century China; Introduction; Spiritual Exercises by way of illustrations |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a The Diary of Oral Exhortations《口鐸日抄》of the Fújiàn community in the 1630s: Practical methods for meditationConclusion; Chapter 4 Modern Meditation in the Context of Science; Exploring "the inner world"; Describing meditation "from the outside"; Functional brain imaging; The role of context; Confidence in biomedical science; Mindfulness and cognitive therapy; Operational definition of meditation techniques; Logic relaxation-a non-intellectual, non-intentional activity; A self-administered technique-specific mental behavior; Recorded instructions; Spontaneous mental activity in meditation |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Mind wandering and self-referential processesDifferent perspectives on mind wandering; A core element; Mode of attention; Concentrative meditation; Nondirective meditation; Mindfulness meditation; Focused attention; Similar cognitive cycle; Mind wandering as distraction; Open monitoring; Biomedical classification; Classification by mode of attention; Dimensions for describing meditation practices; Pragmatic classification; Clinical effects; Future directions; Summary and conclusion; Section 2 Competing Practices; Chapter 5 Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Chán; The nature of the sources |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Chán mindfulnessMindfulness, bare attention, and pure mind; Chán mindlessness; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Reverence and Quietude in Neo-Confucianism; Introduction; Bidding farewell to the "Theory of Quiet-Sitting in the Learning of Mind"; The "Practice of Reverence" in the conduct of affairs; The practice of reverence and the examination of principles; Conclusion: An alternative method of quiet-sitting; Chapter 7 Meditative Pluralism in Hānshān Déqīng; Ridding the mind of thoughts; Spontaneous thoughts as meditation objects; Keywords as meditation objects; Alternative meditation objects |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a The question of syncretismEarly experience; Language beyond sound and meaning; Hānshān's meditative methodology; Section 3 Competing Cultures; Chapter 8 The Hindi Sants' Two Yogic Paths to the Formless Lord; The Hindi sants; Suggestions of practice in the sayings of Kabir; The growth of sant tradition; Two yogic paths: A twentieth-century formulation; Chapter 9 Inner Islamization in Java; Monism and dualism in meditation practice; Orthodoxy and heterodoxy: Meditation as a national issue; Shifting deployment of attention in the body; Chapter 10 Cinnabar-field Meditation in Korea |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Section 4 Cultural Mosaics |
| 520 | |a Behind the stereotype of a solitary meditator closing his eyes to the world, meditation always takes place in close interaction with the surrounding culture. Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of Practice and Context explores cases in which the relation between meditative practice and cultural context is particularly complex. The internationally-renowned contributors discuss practices that travel from one culture to another, or are surrounded by competing cultures. They explore cultures that bring together competing practices, or that are themselves mosaics of elements of different origin | ||
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