Concentration and Meditation. A Manual of Mind Development

Bender, Ernest; Humphreys, Christmas

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“…Writing, like any activity we take seriously, involves sustained concentration, called dhārana by practitioners of Eastern religions, and this is the first stage in the adventure of meditation and understanding the operations of the mind. Consider this observation in Concentration and Meditation by Christmas Humphreys (1993): “As a student wrote: If one is trying to do something really well, one becomes, first of all, interested in it, and later absorbed in it, which means that one forgets oneself in concentrating on what one is doing. But when one forgets oneself, oneself ceases to exist, since oneself is the only thing which causes oneself to exist.”…”

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The skillful means and meanings of philosophy: Attention and immersion in the philosophical art of writing

Johnson

2023

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This response to Richard Shusterman's Philosophy and the Art of Writing focuses on his concern that philosophy is, first and foremost, a way of life, illustrated in the West by the Socratic ideal of the philosopher and in the East by the example of the scholar‐artist‐gentleman. This paper examines the process of Buddhist meditation and the process of creating novels, supplementing the authors Shusterman carefully examines with examples from Black American literature, the author's own teacher John Gardner, and artistic colleagues the author has known. The basic thrust of the response is that the skillful means used in writing can indeed be a form of self‐creation, but it can also be a means of liberation from the self.

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Section: Does the “Self” Completed By Writing Really Exist? On Medita...mentioning

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The skillful means and meanings of philosophy: Attention and immersion in the philosophical art of writing

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2023

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Concentration and Meditation. A Manual of Mind Development

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The skillful means and meanings of philosophy: Attention and immersion in the philosophical art of writing

The skillful means and meanings of philosophy: Attention and immersion in the philosophical art of writing

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