The Definition, Practice, and Psychology of Vedanā: Knowing How It Feels

ISBN-13: 9781032089584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 204 str.

John Peacock; Martine Batchelor

Opis

This book examines the importance of the topic of ‘feeling tone’ (vedanā) as it appears in Early Buddhist texts and practice, and also within contemporary, secular, mindfulness-based interventions. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism.

Spis treści

Introduction – Vedanā: What Is in a ‘Feeling?’  1. Hedonic Hotspots, Hedonic Potholes: Vedanā Revisited  2. Defining Vedanā: Through the Looking Glass  3. Why Be Mindful of Feelings?  4. Vedanā or Feeling Tone: A Practical and Contemporary Meditative Exploration  5. The ‘Sensation of Doubt’ in East Asian Zen Buddhism and Some Parallels with Pāli Accounts of Meditation Practice  6. Feelings Bound and Freed: Wandering and Wonder on Buddhist Pathways  7. Vedanā and the Wisdom of Impermanence: We are Precipitants within the Experiments of the Universe  8. Feeling is Believing: The Convergence of Buddhist Theory and Modern Scientific Evidence Supporting How Self Is Formed and Perpetuated Through Feeling Tone (Vedanā)  9. Serious Illness, Overwhelmingly Unpleasant Feeling Tone of Life, and How Even Incipient Mindfulness Training May Sometimes Help  10. Vedana of Bias: Latent Likes and Dislikes Fuelling Barriers to Human Connection  11. Vedanā, Ethics and Character: A Prolegomena

O autorze

John Peacock is a meditation teacher, scholar, and retired co-director of the master’s degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy at the University of Oxford, UK.

Martine Batchelor is a former Buddhist nun, a meditation teacher, and author of a number of works on Buddhism. She is based in France.