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Realizing Awakened Consciousness Richard P. Boyle

Realizing Awakened Consciousness von Richard P. Boyle

Realizing Awakened Consciousness Richard P. Boyle

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Zusammenfassung

Buddhist teachers and scientists collaborate on a scientifically-based approach to understanding enlightenment.

Realizing Awakened Consciousness Zusammenfassung

Realizing Awakened Consciousness: Interviews with Buddhist Teachers and a New Perspective on the Mind Richard P. Boyle

If, as Buddhism claims, the potential for awakening exists in all human beings, we should be able to map the phenomenon with the same science we apply to other forms of consciousness. A student of cognitive social science and a Zen practitioner for more than forty years, Richard P. Boyle brings his sophisticated perspective to bear on the development of a theoretical model for both ordinary and awakened consciousness. Boyle conducts probing interviews with eleven prominent Western Buddhist teachers (Shinzen Young, John Tarrant, Ken McLeod, Ajahn Amaro, Martine Batchelor, Shaila Catherine, Gil Fronsdal, Stephen Batchelor, Pat Enkyo O'Hara, Bernie Glassman, and Joseph Goldstein) and one scientist (James Austin) who have experienced awakening. From the paths they traveled to enlightenment and their descriptions of the experience, he derives three fundamental properties of awakened consciousness. He then constructs an overarching model that explains how Buddhist practices help free the mind from attachments to reality and the self and make possible the three properties of awakening. Specifically, these teachers describe how they worked to control attention and quiet the mind, detach from ideas and habits, and open themselves to compassion. Boyle's account incorporates current theories of consciousness, sociological insights, and research in neuroscience to advance the study of awakened consciousness and help an even greater number of people to realize it.

Realizing Awakened Consciousness Bewertungen

If Buddhism is to realize its liberative potential in the modern world, we need to learn a lot more about the nature of awakening. This book is an important step in that direction. Boyle's interviews with well-known Western teachers are insightful (sometimes fascinating) in themselves, and the conclusions that he draws from them are a significant contribution to our understanding of contemplative traditions. -- David Loy, author of A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World 'Awakening,' as described and practiced in Buddhism, Boyle shows, is a process that is real and can be appraised in scientific terms. -- Anthony Giddens, London School of Economics When meditators have an 'awakening,' what is it really like? Richard P. Boyle interviewed eleven Western Buddhist teachers to find out, and we get to read their accounts in their own words. Then, drawing on these interviews and on scientific research, Boyle offers an innovative view of how awakening happens and how it can transform each of us. -- Paula England, New York University, and president, American Sociological Association In addition to the interviews with well-known American Buddhist teachers, which form the heart of this book and make fascinating reading in themselves, Boyle develops a provocative frame of reference for understanding and discussing philosophically the meaning of some common features he identifies in the interviews, regarding the form of consciousness generally referred as 'awakening.' -- David Preston, San Diego State University, author of Constructing Trans-Cultural Reality: The Social Organization of Zen Practice More than any book I have read, it left me optimistic that awakened consciousness is not some myth but an attainable human potential. PsycCritiques

Über Richard P. Boyle

Richard P. Boyle was an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, until 1972, when he left to pursue his studies in Buddhism in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Some years later, he moved to Albuquerque and worked as a senior research scientist at the University of New Mexico's Institute for Social Research. He is recently retired.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Interview with Shinzen Young 2. Interview with John Tarrant 3. Interview with Ken McLeod 4. Interview with Ajahn Amaro 5. Interview with Martine Batchelor 6. Interview with Shaila Catherine 7. Interview with Gil Fronsdal 8. Interview with Stephen Batchelor 9. Interview with Pat Enkyo O'Hara 10. Interview with Bernie Glassman 11. Interview with Joseph Goldstein 12. Developing Capacities Necessary for Awakening 13. Properties of Awakening Experiences 14. Evolution of Ordinary and Awakened Consciousness 15. The Awakened Baby? 16. The Human Condition and How We Got Into It 17. Modeling Consciousness, Awakened and Ordinary Appendix: Interview with James Austin, Neuroscientist Notes Glossary of Buddhist Terms References Index

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Realizing Awakened Consciousness: Interviews with Buddhist Teachers and a New Perspective on the Mind Richard P. Boyle
Richard P. Boyle
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Columbia University Press
2015-06-02
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