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| Zen and the Art of Nourishing Life: Labor, Exhaustion, and the Malady of Meditation | ||
| 作者 | Ahn, Juhn Y. |
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| 出處題名 | Japanese Journal of Religious Studies |
| 卷期 | v.35 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2008 |
| 頁次 | 177 - 229 |
| 出版者 | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
| 出版者網址 | http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/ |
| 出版地 | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Juhn Ahn is Assistant Professor in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion and the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. |
| 關鍵詞 | Hakuin Ekaku; Kaibara Ekken; labor; Zen; meditation; naikan |
| 摘要 | In his Yasenkanna and other writings Zen master Hakuin Ekaku (1686–1769) relies on two seemingly conflicting analogies to speak of the art of nourishing life (yōjō). On the one hand, he maintains that vital energy (ki) must be stored in the cinnabar field (tanden). On the other hand, he maintains that one must circulate vital energy in the body by engaging in labor lest it become stagnant. A similar tension can be observed in Kaibara Ekken’s (1630–1714) immensely popular manual of nourishing life, Yōjōkun. Although Shigehisa Kuriyama points to the industrious revolution and what he calls the “anxiety of stagnation” that swept through the Tokugawa populace as a possible cause for the rise of this tension, the present article will suggest a fundamental redefinition of labor (rō) and, more specifically, reading practices that took place during this period as another possible factor behind this development. Labor, be it meditation or reading, had to demonstrate a sense of self-mastery for it to be true labor and failure to do so would result in exhaustion (rō) or what Hakuin preferred to call the malady of meditation (zenbyō). |
| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 1575 |
| 建檔日期 | 2008.12.15 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.09.07 |
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