Rethinking meditation : Buddhist meditative practices in ancient and modern worlds /

"Rethinking Meditation provides a new theoretical and historical approach to Buddhist and Buddhist-derived meditative practices. It shows how, rather than coming down to us unchanged from the time of the Buddha, the standard articulation of mindfulness as bare, non-judgmental attention to the p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McMahan, David L. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Meditation > Buddhism > History. Mindfulness (Psychology) Pleine conscience (Psychologie) Asia. HISTORY. Ethics. MEDICAL. Buddhist) RELIGION. Meditation > Buddhism Religion & beliefs. Religion. Electronic books. History
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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
Postscript: The Iron Age and the Anthropocene.