Phenomenology of Zen

Mickūnas, Algis

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“…The mind of a man of the Way is like a mirror, because it has nothing and is clear. (Babin, 2003, p. 25) These insights from Musashi and Yagyu, two prominent seventeenth century sword masters, are congruent with the views of continental phenomenologists such as Merleau-Ponty (1964) and Husserl (Macann, 2013, p. 33;Mickunas, 1993) on the matter of enacting the phenomenological epoche to perceive the unfolding world afresh.…”

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Husserl’s epoche and the way of the sword: exploring pathways into phenomenological inquiry

Roberts

2019

QRJ

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Purpose Phenomenology is widely recognised for its power to generate nuanced understanding of lived experience and human existence. However, phenomenology is often made inaccessible to prospective researchers due to its specialised nomenclature and dense philosophical underpinnings. This paper explores the value of the researcher’s lived experience as a pathway into phenomenological inquiry. The purpose of this paper is to improve the accessibility of phenomenology as a method for qualitative analysis. It achieves this by aligning Husserl’s concept of phenomenological epoche, or bracketing of preconceptions, and the author’s lived experience as a practitioner of kendo, or Japanese fencing. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs the narrative vignette as a means of illuminating the intersections between kendo practice and the application of phenomenological epoche as it applies to the understanding of embodied sensemaking. Reflections on the narrative vignette identified a suite of techniques from kendo practice that were applied to a phenomenological approach for critical incident interviews. These techniques were then applied to 30 critical incident, semi-structured interviews as part of a PhD research project into embodied sensemaking. Findings The results from these interviews suggest that the kendo-derived techniques were effective in generating thick narratives from participants during semi-structured interviews. Examination of the results provided insights into the linkage between phenomenology as a continental philosophy and eastern perspectives such as those found within the Zen traditions and other aesthetic practices. Originality/value This research suggests that lived experience such as kendo practice can provide a ready-to-hand pathway to phenomenological inquiry.

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Husserl’s epoche and the way of the sword: exploring pathways into phenomenological inquiry

Roberts

2019

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“…He edited and translated into English several books on phenomenology. We will mention only the most imporant articles: (Mickūnas 1975(Mickūnas , 1980(Mickūnas , 1987a(Mickūnas , b, c, 1989a(Mickūnas , b, 1990(Mickūnas , 1991a(Mickūnas , b, c, 1992a1993;Мицкунас 1986). Also see: (Sverdiolas 1992).…”

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Phenomenology in Lithuania

Sverdiolas

Kačerauskas

2009

Stud East Eur Thought

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The article deals with phenomenology in Lithuania. The main thesis of the article is this: phenomenology is a living tradition in need of both development and interpretation. The minor thesis follows from the main one: the Western phenomenological tradition and Lithuanian philosophy interact and develop in tandem with one another. According to the authors, the contact between poetics and philosophy is the dominant form of phenomenology in Lithuania. The phenomenological tradition is treated as creative and living philosophical thought.

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“…Vilnius Baroque emerged here as a significant wholeness of the present-day illuminating Lithuanian identities -the reconstructed rising enlightenment, which is capable of overcoming the current apocalyptic Endarkenment (Mickūnas, 2018). Kristina Sabaliauskaitė's interpretation of the fate of Statehood becomes the highest point of Vilnius' paradigm because it is actualised in the metamodern discourse about the incredible comeback of history in non-illusional red lines of war.…”

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The Visionaries of Vilnius and the Lithuanian Version of Metamodernism

Landsbergytė Becher

2023

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Contemporary Lithuanian culture uses a unique source of creative spirit, which gives birth to visions of Lithuanian Statehood and sacred architecture. It is Vilnius, and authors related to Vilnius focused on its visual, poetic, and historical meanings. Such creators periodically appeared in the 19th and 20th centuries (M. K. Čiurlionis, A. Mickewicz, O. Miłosz, Cz. Miłosz, M. Kulbak), and when Poland occupied Vilnius, the spiritual connection between the city and Lithuania painfully and vividly intensified. Furthermore, Vilnius’ significance highly increased during the Soviet occupation (1940, 1945–1990). It symbolised the enslaved Statehood of Lithuania at that time and remained an invincible architectural vision of European continuity. Composers (E. Balsys, V. Barkauskas), film directors (A. Grikevičius), and painters (A. Stasiulevičius) created the paradigm of the eternal city, deeply rooted in the self-consciousness of Lithuanian Statehood. In the 21st century, this paradigm flourished incredibly powerfully in literature and music. Composer Onutė Narbutaitė (*1956) seemed to awaken Vilnius’ importance in global Western civilisation. In her oratorio “Centones meae urbi” (1997), she brought several eras of Vilnius history back to the present, raising the concept of the seasons as parts of the oratorio: “Spring” — Baroque, cultural flourishing, “Summer” — 20th century, Holocaust catastrophe, the fate of Vilnius Jews, “Autumn” — 19th century Romanticism, A. Mickiewicz’s poetry, the deep patriotism of Polish-Lithuanian people, “Winter” — the tragic 1991 January events in Vilnius, Lithuania’s walk toward the West and the restoration of independence. This musical-poetic-documentary concept of oratorio, recreating the turning points of Eastern European epochs, brought Narbutaitė’s work, the winner of the National Prize award, into the global spotlight.It is even more important to emphasise the role of literature, returning Vilnius to the civic historical self-awareness of the European present, which is especially relevant after the beginning of the Russian imperial aggression in 2022 against Ukraine. It is the four-volume work Silva rerum (2008–2016) by the writer and doctor of art studies Kristina Sabaliauskaitė (*1974). Because of its artistic and geopolitical incisiveness, it was translated into the languages of neighbouring European nations (Polish, Latvian, Estonian). Here, the depth of Vilnius’ historical memory grows into the restoration of the meaning of Statehood and acquires an exclusive expression of literary value, the sound of multicultural rumble with a unique penetration of antiquity into the present.The coverage of Sabaliauskaitė’s literary style is a powerful showcase of linguistic memory and existential and state life events, which, in her unique narrative, transforms into an endless melody of musical expression, enriched with the brutal reality of images and actions. Through Vilnius’ idea, not in a vague visionary sense but in a concrete historicism revision sense, Sabaliauskaitė brings back the deep state of the 16th–18th-century Republic of Two Nations (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) into modern Lithuania, unveiling its relevance. Most importantly, the works of both women creators place them in the category of Vilnius visionaries. Here, historicism is integrated into metamodernism — through an endless melody, the transformation of a musicalform, and a literary sentence into the will of the world, the step into the present. Semantics becomes the bearer of the idea of an astute gathering of nations (in Vilnius as well), the inspirer, and the assessor of Europe’s weakened citizenship genesis in the sense of the Statehood of Eastern Europe. A melody emerges as a line of historical memory in the vault of metamodernism, reviving and enriching the myths of emptiness and the end of history spread by postmodernism. It also synchronises in the present time when an experience of a new challenge of the “falling-behind history” caused by war.

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Phenomenology of Zen

Cited by 12 publications

References 2 publications

Husserl’s epoche and the way of the sword: exploring pathways into phenomenological inquiry

Husserl’s epoche and the way of the sword: exploring pathways into phenomenological inquiry

Phenomenology in Lithuania

The Visionaries of Vilnius and the Lithuanian Version of Metamodernism

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