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Phenomenological Reflections on Mindfulness in the Buddhist Tradition (Paperback)
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Phenomenological Reflections on Mindfulness in the Buddhist Tradition (Paperback)
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This book offers an original phenomenological description of
mindfulness and related phenomena, such as concentration (samādhi)
and the practice of insight (vipassanā). 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 Nikāyas 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 epoché,
which reveals new possibilities for the practice of phenomenology
itself. Phenomenological Reflections on Mindfulness in the Buddhist
Tradition will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested
in phenomenology, Buddhist philosophy, and comparative philosophy.
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