Transforming Aspects of Human Experience in the Light of the Practice of Mindfulness Meditation
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.42.2018.20800Keywords:
Consciousness, Mindfulness meditation, Phenomenology, Buddhism, ExperienceAbstract
Human experience is the result of a complex process in which two poles are united intrinsically: on the one hand, there are bodily changes related to the environment in which our perceptive system is involved. On the other, a series of relational mental assessments which condition, not only perception itself, but also the response to the environment. Both aspects are inseparable: perception and “feeling felt” and hermeneutics and language. Both constitute our experience. This article is a reflection from phenomenology and perennial philosophy on the constitutive aspects of human experience and its relation to the practice of mindfulness meditation as a transforming process of experience. In this sense we wonder: Can the practice of mindfulness modify or influence consciousness and in what sense does it produce a change in human experience and its interpretation?Downloads
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2018-12-21
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Ibáñez Ramos, M. (2018). Transforming Aspects of Human Experience in the Light of the Practice of Mindfulness Meditation. ENDOXA, (42), 285–308. https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.42.2018.20800
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Ensayos en honor de María Teresa Román
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