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The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory(SUNY series in Buddhist Studies)

The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory(SUNY series in Buddhist Studies)

          
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This book explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective. It sheds new light on a problem central in modern Western thought. Yuasa shows that Eastern philosophy has generally formulated its view of mind-body unity as an achievement a state to be acquired—rather than as essential or innate. Depending on the individual's own developmental state, the mind-body connection can vary from near dissociation to almost perfect integration. Whereas Western mind-body theories have typically asked what the mind-body is, Yuasa asks how the mind-body relation varies on a spectrum from the psychotic to the yogi, from the debilitated to the athletic, from the awkward novice to the master musician. Yuasa first examines various Asian texts dealing with Buddhist meditation, kundalini yoga, acupuncture, ethics, and epistemology, developing a concept of the "dark consciousness" (not identical with the psychoanalytic unconscious) as a vehicle for explaining their basic view. He shows that the mind-body image found in those texts has a striking correlation to themes in contemporary French phenomenology, Jungian psychoanalysis, psychomatic medicine, and neurophysiology. The book clears the ground for a provocative meeting between East and West, establishing a philosophical region on which science and religion can be mutually illuminating.

Table of Contents:
Editor's Introduction Author's Preface and Acknowledgments (from Japanese edition) Author's Introduction to the English Edition PART I: VIEWS OF THE BODY IN MODERN JAPANESE THOUGHT Editor's Summary 1: WATSUJI Tetsuro's View of the Body Space and body in intersubjectivity Differences between East and West in understanding spatial-temporal experience Unity of body-mind 2: NISHIDA Kitaro's View of the Body The body's amiguity in acting intuition Time-consciousness and space-consciousness in relation to the body The basho (place) vis-a-vis being and vis-a-vis nothing Dual layered consciousness Practical apodicticity in experience qua basho The dual structure in acting intuition Problematics in Nishida's method 3: Method and Attitude in Studying Eastern Thought The need for methodological reflection Depth psychology and Eastern metaphysics PART II: CULTIVATION AND THE BODY Editor's Summary 4: What is Cultivation (shugyo)? Kairitsu (precepts and canonical law) in Indian Buddhism Kairitsu in Chin and Japan Kairitsu and cultivation in Japanese Buddhism The meaning of cultivation 5: Theories of Artistry (geido) Cultivation and training in the waka theory of poetry The waka-dharani Performance and mind in Zeami No-mind and body-mind oneness 6: Dogen Zen's practical character Cultivation's reversal of the ordinary understanding of being The body-mind relation in seated meditation Molting the ordinary dimension 7: Kukai Chinese Buddhism and the Indian character of tantric Buddhism Cultivation and the ten stages of mind The body and sexuality Sublimation of eros in the mandala Comparison with mediation in Kundalini Yoga The body-mind relation as sokushinjobutsu Overcoming the body'd ambiguity through cultivation PART III: THE CONTMEPORARY SIGNIFICANCE OF EASTERN MIND-BODY THEORIES Editor's Summary 8: Contemporary Philosophical Mind-Body Theories Bergson's Motor Scheme: Beneath the permeation of perception and memory Brain function and the body's motor-scheme Merleau-Ponty's Somatic Scheme: The sensory-motor circuit and The somatic scheme Internal perception General assessment of Merleau-Ponty's theory of the body Emotions: The base of the sensory-motor circuit Two direction in emotion 9: Dual Structure of the Mind-Body Relationship Surface and base structures: Dual psychophysiological structures of body and mind Psychophysciological research and Eastern thought Philosophical significance of body-mind research Reversing our ordinary understanding of the mind-body relation: Reevaluation of Bergson 10: Eastern Meditation Psychotherapy and cultivation: Disease and cure in psychosomatic medicine Psychotherapy and meditative cultivation The body-mind relation in Indian meditation Metaphysics and the mind-body theory: Body-mind and Eastern metaphysics (metapsychics) The body in Indian and Chinese medicine Intuition and Humanness Paranormal knowledge Author's Conclusion to the English Edition Notes Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780887064685
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 406 gr
  • ISBN-10: 088706468X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 1987
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: SUNY series in Buddhist Studies
  • Sub Title: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory
  • Width: 152 mm


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