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La estructuración ritual del cuerpo, la experiencia y la intersubjetividad en la práctica del budismo zen argentino

Catón Eduardo Carini

Religião e Sociedade September 5, 2013 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-85872009000100004 (opens in new tab) via DOAJ

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In Argentine Zen Buddhist centers, meditation practitioners experience and give meaning to pain and suffering in culturally specific ways. Participation in these centers promotes a socially constructed psychophysical habitus, where somatic modes of attention are crucial. The intersubjective and intercorporeal dynamics of Zen communities, structured by ritual, produce this religious habitus through interrelation with others.

Study at a glance

Characteristics Qualitative study Peer reviewed
Population Zen meditation practitioners in Argentine Buddhist centers
Intervention Zen meditation
Keywords Budismo zen Corpo Ritual Intersubjetividade Sofrimento
Key finding Zen ritual in Argentina shapes a psychophysical habitus through somatic modes of attention and intersubjective relations.

Abstract

Neste artigo, analisamos o aspecto fenomenológico do ritual zen na Argentina, especificamente nas práticas e representações relacionadas ao corpo, ao sofrimento e à intersubjetividade. Em primeiro lugar, enfocamos o modo como os praticantes da meditação experimentam e significam a dor e o sofrimento. Em seguida, analisamos o propiciamento de um habitus psicofísico social e construído culturalmente por meio da participação nos centros budistas daquele país, em que as modalidades somáticas da atenção representam um papel de grande importância. Concluindo, questionamos o âmbito da intersubjetividade e da intercorporalidade das comunidades zen, uma vez que é no marco da interrelação em determinado contexto pautado ritualmente que se produz o habitus religioso mencionado anteriormente.The article examines the phenomenological aspect of Zen ritual in Argentina- more specifically, the practices and representations related to the body, suffering and intersubjectivity. In the first place it focuses on the different ways in which Zen meditation practitioners experience and give meaning to their pain and suffering. Secondly, it analyses how participation in Argentinean Buddhist centers promote a socially and culturally constructed psychophysical habitus, in which somatic modes of attention play an important part. The third part investigates the area of intersubjetivity and intercorporality of Zen communities, in a ritually structured context; this is the borderland of the interrelation with others and where the before mentioned religious habitus is produced.

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