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| What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way: Dual and Non-Dual Approaches to Meditation Hindrances in Buddhist Traditions and Contemplative Science | ||
| 作者 | Sparby, Terje (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Religions |
| 卷期 | v.13 n.9 |
| 出版日期 | 2022.09 |
| 頁次 | 19 |
| 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. Author Affiliation: Steiner University College, Norway. 2. Religions 2022, 13(9), 840. |
| 關鍵詞 | meditation; hindrances; negative effects; adverse effects; harmful effects; contemplative science; non-dualism; Mahamudra; tummo; chöd |
| 摘要 | Meditation research tends to be focused on positive effects. Recent studies, however, have uncovered a range of potential negative effects, which may be more prevalent than one would expect. Several different conceptions of “negative effects” exist, and such effects are variously termed “challenging”, “unpleasant”, “adverse”, and “harmful”. Before work on a unifying conception of negative effects can begin, the notion of “meditation hindrances” needs to be clarified. Research on meditation hindrances is very scarce. Traditional Buddhist texts and more recent meditation manuals treat different kinds of meditation hindrances, defining them as reactions that impair or halt spiritual progress generally and access to absorption states specifically. Different strategies have been devised as means to renounce or counteract hindrances. However, one influential idea consists of taking a hindrance as the way to liberation, which either makes the distinction between positive and negative ambiguous or collapses it. This makes it questionable whether a unified conception of “negative effect” can be maintained at all. This article gives an overview of the concept of meditation hindrances and discusses both the problems and the potential benefits inherent in the idea of relativizing the distinction between negative and positive effects. Such an idea may be either harmful to practitioners or their greatest asset. |
| 目次 | Abstract 1 Keywords 1 1. Introduction 1 1.1. Hindrances in the Contemplative Traditions 2 1.2. Contemplative Science of Meditation Hindrances 3 2. Dual Conceptions of the Hindrances 4 2.1. Traditional Dual Conceptions of the Hindrances 4 2.2. Contemporary Dual Conceptions of the Hindrances 6 3. Non-Dual Conceptions of the Hindrances in Theory and Practice 8 3.1. Non-Dual Views of the Hindrances 9 3.2. Examples of Non-Dual Practice 11 3.2.1. Non-Dual Practice in Mahamudra 11 3.2.2. Non-Dual Tantric Practice: The Case of the Six Yogas or Tummo and Karmamudra 12 3.2.3. Chöd 13 4. Discussion 14 5. Conclusions 17 References 17 |
| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13090840 |
| 點閱次數 | 62 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.09.28 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.09.28 |
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