The Technology of Awakening: Experiments in Zen Phenomenology
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In this paper, the authors investigate the phenomenology of awakening in Chinese Zen Buddhism and show that these methods, although radically different from traditional meditation techniques, result in an experience with striking similarities to Zen accounts of awakening, in particular, as experiencing oneself as empty or void and yet totally united with the given world.About:
This article is published in Religion.The article was published on 2021-03-13 and is currently open access. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Phenomenology (philosophy).read more
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Review of Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
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Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
TL;DR: Evan Thompson's Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy as mentioned in this paper is a landmark and a tipping point in the field of consciousness studies.
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Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience
TL;DR: A wide variety of Buddhist technical terms pertaining to the "stages on the path" are subject to a phenomenological hermeneutic, interpreted as if they designated discrete states of consciousness experienced by historical individuals in the course of their meditative practice as discussed by the authors.
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Perplexities of Consciousness
TL;DR: Schwitzgebel as discussed by the authors argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience and that exposure to black-and-white media made people misremember their dreams and that we simply don't know whether or not we dream in color.
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The Zen of Japanese Nationalism
TL;DR: The Zen classique is a formes les plus rituelles du monachisme bouddhiste as discussed by the authors, i.e. a vue populaire, conceptuellement incoherente and une mauvaise lecture de la doctrine Zen traditionnelle.