Polak/Nikaya Buddhism, 7. Calming the Mind through Awareness

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How to Cite: Polak, Grzegorz . Calming the Mind through Awareness. Nikāya Buddhism and Early Chan - A Different Meditative Paradigm. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 297-318 Jul 2024. ISBN 9781800504257.

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Chapter 7 discusses the role played by awareness as a means of pacifying the mind. The first part of the chapter presents various forms of meditative awareness of mental processes described in Nikāya and early Chan texts. It considers whether meditative awareness can be conceptualized as an active form of meditation which involves the implementation of some method. The final part of the chapter offers a hypothesis regarding the mechanism by which awareness of mental activities may lead to their pacification.

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  • container title
    Nikāya Buddhism and Early Chan​: A Different Meditative Paradigm
  • creator
    Grzegorz Polak
  • isbn
    9781800504264​ (eBook)
  • publisher
    Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2024
  • publisher place
    Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • rights holder
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • series title
    Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.1558/isbn.9781800504264