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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Copelj, Erol

Erol Čopelj

Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor and Francis

CRC Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

New York, NY, 2022

Nov 01, 2023

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Notes
Bibliography
Introduction
Notes
Bibliography
Part I
1. Mindfulness in Literature and Everyday Life
Notes
Bibliography
2. The Definition of Mindfulness in the Pāli Nikāyas
2.1 The Contemplative Standpoint
2.2 The Objective Domain
2.3 Freedom from Desires and Discontent
2.4 Mindfulness (Lucid Awareness)
2.5 Effort
2.6 Immediate Understanding
Summary
Notes
Bibliography
3. Mindfulness in the Contemporary Literature, a Critical Analysis
3.1 Basic Attention
3.2 The Quietists
3.3 The Cognitivists
3.4 The Middle Way
3.5 Critical Remarks
3.6 Mindfulness, Situatedness, Relativism
3.7 Mindfulness: The Feeling of Being Tuned-In
Notes
Bibliography
Part II
A Note to the Reader: How to Read Part II
4. Mindfulness in the Husserlian Context
4.1 Ordinary Life
4.2 Intentionality
4.3 The Natural Attitude
4.4 The Transcedental Attitude
4.5 The Phenomenological Epoché
4.6 The Open Horizon: The Horizon of Thingly Possibilities
Notes
Bibliography
5. Radicalising the Reduction
5.1 Beyond Heidegger's Angst
5.1.1 Criticism
5.2 Integrating Sartre's Existential Self
5.3 Henry's Night Life
5.3.1 Criticism
5.4 Patočka's Asubjectivism
5.4.1 The Asubjective Epoché
5.4.2 The Three Movements of Human Existence
5.4.3 The "Fourth" Movement of Human Existence: Awakening
Notes
Bibliography
6. A Phenomenology of Mindfulness, and Related Phenomena
6.1 Being in the World: Prior to the Practice
6.2 Cultivating Mindfulness: Tuning-Out-Tuning-In
6.3 Mindfulness: The Feeling of Being Tuned-In
6.4 Concentration: Narrowing Down of The Open Horizon
6.5 "Wrong" Mindfulness
6.6 Flow: "Wrong" Concentration
Notes
Bibliography
7. Mindfulness in Action
7.1 Mindfulness in Husserl's Phenomenological Investigations
7.2 The Spiritual Practice of Ãcariya Mahā Boowa
7.2.1 Effort
7.2.2 Insight
7.3 On The Difference Between Eidetic Intuition and Vipassanā
Notes
Bibliography
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

"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."--Publisher description

This book offers an original phenomenological description of mindfulness and related phenomena, such as concentration (samadhi) and the practice of insight (vipassana). It demonstrates that phenomenological method has the power to reanimate ancient Buddhist texts, giving new life to the phenomena at which those texts point.

2024-05-16