Rethinking Meditation Buddhist Meditative Practice in Ancient and Modern Worlds 1st Edition David L. Mcmahan

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197661742
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197661741
• Author(s): David L. McMahan

A dizzying array of meditation practices have emerged in the long and culturally diverse history of Buddhism. Yet if you are seeking out meditation today in North America and Europe-and, increasingly, in the rest of the world as well-you will likely encounter one particular type, often under the label “mindfulness.” You will find it taught in Zen monasteries, Insight Meditation centers, health clubs, colleges, psychologists’ offices, corporations, liberal Christian churches, prisons, and the US military. Countless articles in popular magazines promote its benefits, often depicting it as a panacea for problems as wide-ranging as anxiety, depression, heart disease, eating disorders, and psoriasis. There are books on mindfulness and meditation not only by Buddhist monks but also by medical doctors, psychologists, computer engineers, business consultants, and a US congressman.

Table contents:

I. Thinking about Meditation
1. Introduction

2. Neural Maps and Enlightenment Machines

3. What Difference Does Context Make?: Meditation and Social Imaginaries

II. Meditation in Context
4. Meditation in the Pali Social Imaginary I: The Phenomenology and Ethics of Monastic Mindfulness

5. Meditation in the Pali Social Imaginary II: Corporeal and Cognitive Mindfulness

6. Meditation and Cultural Repertoires

7. Deconstructive Meditation and the Search for the Buddha Within

III. Meditation and the Ethical Subject
8. Secularism and the Ethic of Appreciation

9. Meditation and the Ethic of Authenticity

10. Meditation and the Ethic of Autonomy

11. Affordances, Disruption, and Activism

12. Individualism and Fragmentation in the Mirrors of Secularism: The Ethic of Interdependence

Index

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