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- Title
Attention as a means of self‐dissolution and reformation.
- Authors
Carpenter, Amber D.
- Abstract
Buddhist ethics generally favour attention over action, and mental cultivation as the means of ethical transformation. Buddhaghosa's treatment of samādhi – meditation – in the Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga) exemplifies this view that practices of attention are morally transforming. His detailed discussion of which forms of attentional exercises are transformative to whom reveal that edifying attention is directed to impersonal reality rather than persons – even when the Buddha is our object of attention. In successful meditation, we do not just recognise reality and ourselves as devoid of essence; we experience it as such – and in the experiencing, become so ourselves.
- Subjects
BUDDHISM; ATTENTION; ALTRUISM; CHRISTIAN meditations; SAMADHI
- Publication
Ratio, 2018, Vol 31, Issue 4, p376
- ISSN
0034-0006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rati.12215