"No hay red como la ilusión": un acercamiento a la ética budista

The paper explores Buddhist concepts—meditation, awareness, precepts, intuitive knowledge, naturalness, and awakening—and then examines how characters in literary works by Aira and Bellatin, guided by Pitol, appear to enact the difficult practice of living in the present and following the Bodhisattva's precepts. The author uses this framework to understand their own zazen practice, which began as a therapeutic recommendation and grew into a central interest, showing how a fascination with reading transformed through Buddhist practice into a model for life.

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Abstract

En estas páginas se busca comprender algunos términos del budismo (meditación, atención plena, preceptos, conocimiento intuitivo, naturalidad, despertar), que luego se examinan en pasajes de creación con personajes que parecen recrear la difícil práctica de “vivir en el presente” y aun los preceptos del Bodhisattva. Con ambos, intento entender mi práctica de zazen, que comenzó por recomendación terapéutica y en el camino se transformó en interés capital; ver cómo la fascinación por la lectura (aquí con ejemplos de Aira y Bellatin y la guía de Pitol) se transformó, con la práctica del budismo, en modelo de vida. This paper seeks to understand some terms of Buddhism (meditation, awareness, precepts, intuitive knowledge, awakening), then examined them in creation passages where characters seem to adopt the difficult practice of “living in the present”, and even the Bodhisattva’s precepts. With both, I try to understand my own zazen practice, which began with a therapeutic recommendation and became a capital interest along the way; to discern how the fascination of reading, here with examples from Aira and Bellatin guided by Pitol, was transformed through Buddism practice into a model of life.