From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness

Davis, Jake H.; Thompson, Evan

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“…Here it is important to note that NDA is not basic in the same sense as biological primitives of consciousness, such as, for example, proto self or core self, as it can contextualize primary, secondary, and tertiary affective and cognitive processes. Thus, NDA is much more than a basic vigilance such as that encountered in proto or core consciousness . It is a higher order awareness that appears to be inherently present as a potential in all of us.…”

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Neural correlates of nondual awareness in meditation

Josipovic

2013

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Dualities such as self versus other, good versus bad, and in-group versus out-group are pervasive features of human experience, structuring the majority of cognitive and affective processes. Yet, an entirely different way of experiencing, one in which such dualities are relaxed rather than fortified, is also available. It depends on recognizing, within the stream of our consciousness, the nondual awareness (NDA)--a background awareness that precedes conceptualization and intention and that can contextualize various perceptual, affective, or cognitive contents without fragmenting the field of experience into habitual dualities. This paper introduces NDA as experienced in Tibetan Buddhist meditation and reviews the results of our study on the influence of NDA on anticorrelated intrinsic and extrinsic networks in the brain. Also discussed are preliminary data from a current study of NDA with minimized phenomenal content that points to involvement of a precuneus network in NDA.

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Neural correlates of nondual awareness in meditation

Josipovic

2013

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…de bzhin nyon mongs dri ma med/ rang byung rang bzhin nyid shes na/ sems can 'ching bar ga la 'gyur/ de nyid la ni bden bzung na/ sangs rgyas nyid kyang 'ching bar 'gyur/ sems can rnams ni cis mi 'ching/ bden med rang bzhin med shes na/ dri ma rnams ni rang sar dag/ chu yi rnyog ma rang dangs ltar/ … gzung 'dzin dag gis bzung na ni/ 'khor ba nyid la yun ring gnas/ khams gsum pa yi khang pa ru/ ming dang gzugs kyi btson par tshud/ ma rig las kyi lcags kyis bsdams/ rang byung sgron ma nyid dang bral/ 'khor ba'i mun nag stug pos gyogs. For another interdisciplinary attempt to link the Buddhist five aggregates to understanding the emergence of phenomenal consciousness, see Davis and Thompson (2013). yan lag spras pa tha dad las/ thams cad ming gi bye brag tu/ 'khrul pa'i yul la rnam gnyis 'gyur.…”

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Tibetan Sky-Gazing Meditation and the Pre-History of Great Perfection Buddhism

Geisshuesler

2024

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Through a rigorous analysis of original scriptures and later commentaries, this open access book unearths a cornucopia of idiosyncratic motifs pervading the famous Tibetan sky-gazing meditation known as "Skullward Leap" (thod rgal). Flavio Geisshuesler argues that these motifs suggest that the practice did not originate in the context of Buddhism, but rather within indigenous Tibetan culture and in close contact with the early Bön tradition. The book argues that Dzogchen once belonged to a cult centered on the quest for vitality, which involved the worship of the sky as primordial source of life and endorsed the hunting of animals, as they were believed to be endowed with the ability to move in between the divine realm of the heavens and the world of humans. The book also traces the historical development of the Great Perfection, delineating a complex process of buddhicization that started with the introduction of Buddhism in the 7th century, intensified with the rise of new schools in the 11th century, and reached its climax in the systematization of the teachings by the great scholar-yogi Longchenpa in the 14th century. The study advances an innovative model of meditation as an open-ended practice that animates practitioners to face the most challenging moments of their lives with courage and curiosity, imagination and creativity, and playfulness and excitement; qualities that are oftentimes overlooked in contemporary descriptions of contemplation. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Dharma and Distress: Buddhist Teachings that Support the Psychological Principles in a Mindfulness Program

Monteiro

2015

Mindfulness in Behavioral Health

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From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness

Cited by 28 publications

References 33 publications

Neural correlates of nondual awareness in meditation

Neural correlates of nondual awareness in meditation

Tibetan Sky-Gazing Meditation and the Pre-History of Great Perfection Buddhism

Dharma and Distress: Buddhist Teachings that Support the Psychological Principles in a Mindfulness Program

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