Phenomenological Reflections on Mindfulness in the Buddhist Tradition

This book offers an original phenomenological description of mindfulness and related phenomena, such as concentration (samadhi) and the practice of insight (vipassana). It demonstrates that phenomenological method has the power to reanimate ancient Buddhist texts, giving new life to the phenomena at which those texts point.

Autorentext

Erol opelj received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Monash University, Australia and Warwick University, UK. His published work has appeared in Husserl Studies, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (2020).

Inhalt

Introduction

Part I

1. Mindfulness in Literature and Everyday Life

2. The Definition of Mindfulness in the Pli Nikyas

3. Mindfulness in the Contemporary Literature, a Critical Analysis

Part II

4. Mindfulness in the Husserlian Context

5. Radicalising the Reduction

6. A Phenomenology of Mindfulness, and Related Phenomena

7. Mindfulness in Action

Conclusion