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Mindfulness and the Search for Meaning
Monk, Ninja, Doctor, Zombie
Seiten
2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-21536-8 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-21536-8 (ISBN)
What is mindfulness? Is it therapy, a religious practice, a philosophy or a practical means of navigating the every day?
Using the stories of four archetypal characters - the monk, ninja, doctor, and zombie - this book unpacks the assumptions, motivations and expectations we now bring to the meditative practice of mindfulness. The four types act as our guides through an exploration of mindfulness and the deeply ideological debates surrounding it. The monk stands for mindfulness as spiritual purity, wisdom and enlightenment; the ninja self-mastery and a consummate zen skill and the doctor is the model of meditative practice as used in treatments and professional care. The zombie, far from being an aspirational model, epitomizes a common fear: mindfulness as cult-mentality.
Balancing Buddhism, Daoism, Stoicism, contemporary therapeutic paradigms and capitalist imagery with firsthand accounts from teachers and students, this is the story of mindfulness as a various, complex way of living.
Using the stories of four archetypal characters - the monk, ninja, doctor, and zombie - this book unpacks the assumptions, motivations and expectations we now bring to the meditative practice of mindfulness. The four types act as our guides through an exploration of mindfulness and the deeply ideological debates surrounding it. The monk stands for mindfulness as spiritual purity, wisdom and enlightenment; the ninja self-mastery and a consummate zen skill and the doctor is the model of meditative practice as used in treatments and professional care. The zombie, far from being an aspirational model, epitomizes a common fear: mindfulness as cult-mentality.
Balancing Buddhism, Daoism, Stoicism, contemporary therapeutic paradigms and capitalist imagery with firsthand accounts from teachers and students, this is the story of mindfulness as a various, complex way of living.
Chris Goto-Jones is Dean of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, Canada, and Honorary Professor in Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is author of Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction (2009).
Introduction
1. What Is (and Isn't) Mindfulness?
2. The Story of the Mindful Monk
3. The Story of the Mindful Ninja
4. The Story of the Mindful Doctor
5. The Story of the Mindful Zombie
6. What Does it Mean to Live a Mindful Life?
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.12.2022 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-21536-8 / 1350215368 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-21536-8 / 9781350215368 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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