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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0197661765 

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Author: 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. Meditation teachers will sometimes say that this is the same meditative practice that the Buddha taught over 2500 years ago, and which has been transmitted virtually unchanged down through the centuries to us today. The “cultural baggage” surrounding the practices has changed, but the essence is intact, and what it does for people, whether you’re a Buddhist monk or a corporate executive, remains the same.Rethinking Meditation shows that the standard articulation of mindfulness did not come down to us unchanged from the time of the Buddha. Rather, it is a distillation of particular strands of Buddhist thought that have combined with western ideas to create a unique practice tailored to modern life. Rethinking Meditation argues that the relationship between meditative practices and cultural context is much more crucial than is suggested in typical contemporary articulations.David McMahan shows that most of the vast array of meditative practices that have emerged in Buddhist traditions have been filtered out of typical contemporary practice, allowing only a trickle of meditative practices through. This book presents a genealogy of some specific elements in classical Buddhist traditions that have fed into contemporary meditative practices-those that have made it through the filters of modernity. It asks: out of the many forms of Buddhist meditation that have developed over two-and-a-half millennia, how and why were particular practices selected to coalesce into the Standard Version today?

Rethinking Meditation 1st Table of contents:

I. Thinking about Meditation
1. Introduction
Meditative Practices, Ancient and Modern
Filters and Magnets
Themes of the Book
Historical and Genealogical Study
Theoretical Argument
Individuals, Cultures, and the Underlying Conceptual Architecture of late Modernity
Meditation as a Cultural Practice
Meditation and Secularism
Ethical Subjects
2. Neural Maps and Enlightenment Machines
The Enlightenment Machine
Meditation as a Science of Mind
The Theater-of-the-Mind Model of Mindfulness
The Self-as-Brain Model of Mindfulness
Meditation in Context: Initial Reflections
3. What Difference Does Context Make?: Meditation and Social Imaginaries
The Work Meditation Does
Meditation in a Social Imaginary
II. Meditation in Context
4. Meditation in the Pali Social Imaginary I: The Phenomenology and Ethics of Monastic Mindfulness
The Historical and Cultural Context of Early Buddhist Meditative Practices
Meditation as Self-Cultivation in the Pali Suttas
Phenomenological and Psychological Reflections
Mindfulness and the Habitus of Monastic Comportment
5. Meditation in the Pali Social Imaginary II: Corporeal and Cognitive Mindfulness
The Body: As It Is
Corporeal Crisis
Doctrinal Contemplations
Rethinking the Foundations of Mindfulness
6. Meditation and Cultural Repertoires
Taxonomies, Symptoms, and Cultural Contexts
Two Meditators Again
And Yet . . .
7. Deconstructive Meditation and the Search for the Buddha Within
The Dharma Game: Categories and the Way Things Are
Emptiness and the Way Things Are
Beyond Categories
Meditation and the Buddha Within
Implications of Innateism, Insinuations of Emptiness
III. Meditation and the Ethical Subject
8. Secularism and the Ethic of Appreciation
The Subject of Ethics and the Ethical Subject
Secularism and the Secular Meditator
The Underlying Ideals of Secular Meditation
“Appreciate Your Life”: Strawberries and the Ethic of Appreciation
Preparing the Way: Transcendentalism and Attentive Appreciation
Meditation in the Immanent Frame
9. Meditation and the Ethic of Authenticity
Authenticity in Modern Western Thought
Meditation and the Ethic of Authenticity
Alienation and the Modern Meditator
Evaluating the Ethic of Authenticity
The Real Thing
10. Meditation and the Ethic of Autonomy
Introducing Autonomy
Freedom in Classical Buddhism
Meditation and Modern Conceptions of Freedom
Liberalism and the Autonomous Self
The Inner Citadel of the Mind
The Feminist Interrogation of the Autonomous Self
Alternative Models of Agency in Meditative Traditions
Spontaneity and Submission: Alternative Models of Agency in Meditative Traditions
Meditation and Autonomy
11. Affordances, Disruption, and Activism
Navigating the Internal Affordance Landscape
Ruptures, Breakdown, and Ethics
Meditation, Social Change, and “Interruptive Agency”
Social and Political Affordances
Conclusions on Meditation, Autonomy, and Ethics
12. Individualism and Fragmentation in the Mirrors of Secularism: The Ethic of Interdependence
Hand Mirrors and Infinity Mirrors
Modernity and the Fragmentation of the Self
Fragmented Selves and Nonself
Two Poles of Mindfulness
Secularity and Interdependence
Fractal Order and Fragmented Chaos
Postscript: The Iron Age and the Anthropocene

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