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Rethinking Meditation

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Meditation in the Pali Social Imaginary I

Rethinking Meditation September 14, 2023 David L. Mcmahan

Abstract This chapter brings early Buddhist meditation literature—especially the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta—into conversation with ideas in phenomenology and cognitive science that address the distinction between conscious, effortful activity and habitual activity rooted in the tacit assumptions, dispositions, and categories of a particular cultural context. Some meditation practices disrupt the tacit...