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| Waking up from Delusion: Mindfulness (Sati) and Right Mind-and-Heart (Bodhicitta) for Educating Activists | ||
| 作者 | Bai, Heesoon (著) ; Voulgaris, Mel A. V. (著) ; Williams, Heather (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Religions |
| 卷期 | v.13 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2022.04 |
| 頁次 | 15 |
| 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. Authors' Affiliation: Simon Fraser University. 2. Religions 2022, 13(4), 363. |
| 關鍵詞 | mindfulness (sati); Four Noble Truths; bodhicitta; interbeing; Four Immeasurables; healing education and curriculum; contemplative activism |
| 摘要 | In the face of current turbulent times including climate emergencies, species extinction, the erosion of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism—in short, a suffering world—the authors of this paper propose that education needs to be centrally an activist effort dedicated to healing and repairing the increasingly wounded and damaged world. To this end, this paper explores Buddhism as an educational program that centralizes a healing curriculum based on the understanding that healing comes from waking up from the delusion of possessive individualism (ego-selves) that gives rise to neoliberal capitalist societies. This delusion is the existential home of suffering. Waking up requires the disciplined effort of seeing through and past individualism to the workings of mutual causality within a universe of interconnection (Interbeing), such as ours. The mindfulness (sati) practice that the historical Buddha taught is such a form of mental discipline. Through the agentic cultivation of sati and subsequent remembrance of our inherent Interbeing, we can rediscover and rekindle the inherently enlightened mind of bodhicitta. This paper explores various psychological, sociocultural, ideological, and relational conditionings that act as barriers to seriously practicing mindfulness, including the currently popular conceptions of mindfulness in North America. While acknowledging that successful practice takes setting up the right conditions, our paper also delves into helpful and supportive conditions for mindfulness practice for activists, namely, ethical motivation and contemplative/healing emotions such as the Four Immeasurables. |
| 目次 | Abstract 1 Keywords 1 1. Buddhism as an Educational Program towards Healing 1 1.1. The Buddha the Healer and Educator 2 1.2. Leveraging Human Agency 3 2. Forgetting of Human Nature as Interbeing 5 Interbeing Is Nirvana 6 3. Sati—Mindfulness 7 4. Right Mind and Enlightened Heart for Activists 9 4.1. Contemplative Activism 10 4.2. Compassion for Monsters Within 11 4.3. Not Be Vengeful 12 4.4. To Think in Terms of Love 12 5. Hopeful Future 13 Notes 13 References 14 |
| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13040363 |
| 點閱次數 | 60 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.09.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.09.26 |
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