Meditation on the Breath: Mindfulness and Focused Attention
Meditation on the Breath: Mindfulness and Focused Attention
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DOI：
10.1007/s12671-019-01169-9
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发表时间：
2019-08-01
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3.6
通讯作者：
Analayo, Bhikkhu
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作者：
Analayo, Bhikkhu
本文探讨了早期佛教思想中对呼吸的冥想在多大程度上涉及集中注意力。更仔细地检查这种以十六个步骤形式的冥想模式的指示表明，集中注意力只是练习的第二个方面，在大多数情况下，这涉及到培养心灵的广度。这与后来的传统不同。十六步冥想法逐渐简化为呼吸的触摸体验，这显然是一个明显的结果，自然需要更强的专注力，最终导致需要设计额外的冥想技巧，如数呼吸，这是一种只有在后来的文本中才能找到的练习方式。本文的研究结果表明，有必要将呼吸和呼吸过程中的正念视为相关但不同的心理素质。
This article explores to what degree meditation on the breath in early Buddhist thought involved focused attention. Closer inspection of instructions on this mode of meditation in the form of sixteen steps shows focused attention to be only a secondary aspect of the practice, which for the most part rather involves cultivating breadth of mind. This differs from later tradition. As the apparent result of a gradual reduction of the sixteen-step scheme to just the touch experience of the breath, a stronger focus naturally came to be required, eventually leading to the necessity of devising additional meditation techniques such as counting the breaths, a modality of practice only found in later texts. The findings from the present article suggest the need to consider focus on the breath and mindfulness of the process of breathing as related but distinct mental qualities.