Jhana Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience Dennison Paul
An interdisciplinary deep-dive into the Buddhist jhanas--states of meditative absorption--and how they can transform our understanding of self and consciousness.Ineffable states of consciousness…
Specifikacia Jhana Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience Dennison Paul
An interdisciplinary deep-dive into the Buddhist jhanas--states of meditative absorption--and how they can transform our understanding of self and consciousness.Ineffable states of consciousness characterized by incredible joy and concentration, the jhanas are central to the earliest Buddhist teachings. For centuries in Southeast Asia, oral Yogavacara (yoga practitioner) traditions kept the practice of jhāna meditation alive, but in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reforms in Buddhism suppressed jhana in favor of vipassana, or insight meditation. Traditional methods of jhāna meditation were nearly lost. Related aspects of traditional Southeast Asian Buddhism, such as the use of sacred mantras, amulets, and tattoos, were downplayed. Some began to consider the extraordinary states of consciousness induced by jhana meditation to be a thing