A Buddhist Contribution to Neurophenomenology
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Master Lecture – A Buddhist Contribution to Neurophenomenology
The project of mapping the brain is making great progress in our time, butmapping the mind, in contrast, is still in its infancy. All people have an inner life, but the systematic exploration of this terrain, in a manner that can be useful to the scientific investigation of consciousness, is not well developed. Buddhists have …
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Master Lecture – Science, Daoism, and Scholarly Subjectivity
The Classical Daoist tradition in China, known through its two famous “mystical” works, the Daodejing («The Way and its Potency») and the Zhuangzi («Teachings of Master Zhuang”), provides specific advice about forms of contemplative practice that develop qualities of selfless and impartial cognition thus enabling accurate perceptions, judgments and spontaneous intuitions to be made about …
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ISCS 2014 – Master Lecture – Harold Roth
Science, Daoism, and Scholarly Subjectivity
ISCS 2014 – Keynote – David Germano
Contemplation in Contexts: Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Across the Boundaries of the Humanities and Sciences
Keynote – Contemplation in Contexts
Contemplation in Contexts: Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Across the Boundaries of the Humanities and Sciences This talk explores a central challenge in contemplative sciences: the roles of so-called “contexts” in contemplation and the possibility of consilience between the humanities and sciences in contemplative research. It will focus on a specific contemplative tradition, namely Tibetan Buddhist practices, …
Concurrent Session 2 – Exploring Sleep Paralysis
The exploration of non-ordinary states of consciousness can have a potentially deep impact on our understanding of ourselves and the world. These states, however, are difficult to bring into a scientific discourse due to issues connected to their properties of reproducibility and ineffability. But these obstacles do not pose impossible challenges. Recently, there has been …
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Concurrent Session 2 – The Tears of a Scholar: Bringing Mindfulness into Higher Education
Deep feeling for life characterizes monks, healers, and scholars. However, the current context of higher education in the United States leaves behind the quest for meaning in favor of corporate cost cutting and employment-focused endeavors by which we are judged. This panel of scholars seeks to share the ongoing process of creating a master’s degree …
Concurrent Session 2 – Contemplative Neuroscience, the Phenomenology of Attention and the Mereology of the Subject
In this paper, I argue that results from contemplative neuroscience can help resolve a dispute between Husserl and Gurwitsch regarding whether attention is endogenous or exogenous. The empirical results indicate that attention is endogenous, i.e., that we are subjectively aware — and to a certain extent in control — of the direction of our attention. …
Concurrent Session 2 – Prospects for a Empirical Research of Buddhist Religious Practice from within Buddhist Contexts
I argue for a contemporary academic theological discipline of Buddhist empirical practical theology, wherein qualitative and quantitative contemplative research of the lived experience of Buddhist religion is systematically conducted from within the historical, cultural, and social contexts of religious practice. After briefly reviewing certain philosophical issues with respect to a specifically Buddhist practical theology, I …
