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| The Technology of Awakening: Experiments in Zen Phenomenology | ||
| 作者 | Ramm, Brentyn (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Religions |
| 卷期 | v.12 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2021.03 |
| 出版者 | MDIP |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.mdpi.com/ |
| 出版地 | Basel, Switzerland [巴塞爾, 瑞士] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1. Religions 2021, 12(3), 192. Special Issue: Meditation and Spiritual Practice. 2. Author Affiliations: School of Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, WA 6959, Australia. |
| 關鍵詞 | awakening; Chinese Zen Buddhism; comparative phenomenology; Douglas Harding; emptiness; first-person methods; Kensho; nonduality |
| 摘要 | In this paper, I investigate the phenomenology of awakening in Chinese Zen Buddhism. In this tradition, to awaken is to ‘see your true nature’. In particular, the two aspects of awakening are: (1) seeing that the nature of one’s self or mind is empty or void and (2) an erasing of the usual (though merely apparent) boundary between subject and object. In the early Zen tradition, there are many references to awakening as chopping off your head, not having eyes, nose and tongue, and seeing your ‘Original Face’. These references bear a remarkable resemblance to an approach to awakening developed by Douglas Harding. I will guide the reader through a series of Harding’s first-person experiments which investigate the gap where you cannot see your own head. I will endeavour to show that these methods, although radically different from traditional meditation techniques, result in an experience with striking similarities to Zen accounts of awakening, in particular, as experiencing oneself as empty or void and yet totally united with the given world. The repeatability and apparent reliability of these first-person methods opens up a class of awakening experience to empirical investigation and has the potential to provide new insights into nondual traditions. |
| 目次 | 1. Introduction 1 2. Experimental Phenomenology 3 3. Awakening in Zen 4 4. What to Look For 5 5. The Science of the First-Person 5 6. Experiments in Zen Phenomenology 6 6.1. The Single Eye 6 6.2. The Pointing Experiment 7 6.3. The Mirror Experiment 8 6.4. The Spinning Experiment 9 6.5. Closed Eye Experiment 9 7. The Nonduality of Subject and Object 9 8. A Distortion of Zen Phenomenology? 10 9. Merely an Illusion? 13 10. Analyzing an Awakening Experience 14 11. Conclusions 17 References 18 |
| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12030192 |
| 點閱次數 | 215 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.04.22 |
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