From Abstract Concepts to Experiential Knowledge: Embodying Enlightenment in a Meditation Center
From Abstract Concepts to Experiential Knowledge: Embodying Enlightenment in a Meditation Center
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从抽象概念到经验知识：在冥想中心体现开悟
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2010
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Michal Pagis
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Michal Pagis
抽象的哲学如何变成现实？基于对以色列和美国内观禅修者2年的民族志观察和深度访谈，本文追踪了禅修者体现佛教三大信条：不满足、无常和无我的过程。虽然冥想者认为这些原则是佛教哲学的核心，但只有通过冥想的实践，这些原则才能在身体层面上体验到，从而被“实现”为真理。这种实现发生在冥想中心的环境中，在那里参与长期冥想静修有助于产生特定的主观体验，将佛教教义的知识注入具体的意义。本文阐述了抽象概念和具体经验如何在构建冥想者的现象学现实中相互支持，并提出了一个一般框架，用于研究不同类型知识的概念维度和具体维度之间存在的各种关系。
How do abstract philosophies turn into lived reality? Based on 2 years of ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews of vipassana meditation practitioners in Israel and the United States, the paper follows the process through which meditators embody the three main Buddhist tenets: dissatisfaction, impermanence and not-self. While meditators consider these tenets central to Buddhist philosophy, it is only through the practice of meditation that the tenets are experienced on the bodily level and thereby are “realized” as truth. This realization takes place in the situated environment of the meditation center, where participation in long meditation retreats facilitates the production of specific subjective experiences that infuse the knowledge of Buddhist tenets with embodied meaning. The paper illustrates how abstract concepts and embodied experience support one another in the construction of meditators’ phenomenological reality and suggests a general framework for studying the variety of relations that exist between the conceptual and embodied dimensions of different types of knowledge.