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Meditation, Buddhism, and Science (Hardcover)
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Meditation, Buddhism, and Science (Hardcover)
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The scientific study of Buddhist forms of meditation has surged in
recent years. Such study has captured the popular imagination,
reshaping conceptions of what meditation is and what it can do.
Within the lab and now beyond it, people have come to see
meditation as a practical matter, a rewiring of the brain or an
optimization of consciousness as a means to better health, more
fulfilling relationships, and increasing productivity. Often
suppressed if not dropped from this pragmatic approach are the
beliefs, values, and cosmologies that underpin such practice from
the Buddhist point of view. Propelled by the imperatives of
empirical practicality, for perhaps the first time in history
meditation has shifted from Buddhist monasteries and practice
centers to some of the most prominent and powerful modern
institutions in the world-hospitals, universities, corporations,
and the military-as well as many non-institutional settings. As the
contributions to this volume show, as their contexts change, so do
the practices, sometimes drastically. New ways of thinking about
meditation, ways that profoundly affect millions of lives all over
the world, are emerging from its move to these more strictly
secular settings. To understand these changes and their effects,
the essays in this volume explore the unaddressed complexities in
the interrelations between Buddhist history and thought and the
scientific study of meditation. The contributors bring
philosophical, cultural, historical, and ethnographic perspectives
to bear, considering such issues as the philosophical presumptions
of practice, the secularization of meditation, the values and goods
assumed in clinical approaches, and the sorts of subjects that take
shape under the influence of these transformed and transformative
practices-all the more powerful for being so often formulated with
the authority of scientific discourse.
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