日常宗教=Everyday Religion; 禪修=Everyday Religion; 自我技藝=Technologies of the self; 反身性=Reflexivity; 身心福祉=Reflexivity
摘要
近年來，宗教社會學的研究轉向探索日常宗教（Everyday Religion）的面向，發現到宗教在日常生活中持續扮演重要的角色，並未因為現代化的發展而失去其影響性。聖嚴法師在其自傳《雪中足跡》一書中也提到，推動現代化的佛教，教導大眾把佛法運用在日常生活當中，是他最主要的弘法旨趣，藉著禪修教學，他引導大眾在日常生活中實踐禪法，無論個人所處的環境或是自我的身心狀態為何，都可以運用禪法（或佛法）來擁有快樂平安的生活。 落實禪修在日常生活是聖嚴法師復興漢傳禪佛教的重要特徵，透過運用禪修的方法，個人可以在日常生活中自我觀照、自我反思、自我轉化，產生如同傅柯（ Foucault）所論及之自我技藝的作用。本研究試圖一方面掌握聖嚴法師禪法教授的日常宗教特徵，另外一方面也藉由對禪修者的深入訪談，探索日常生活中的禪修實踐，包括經營家庭與人際關係、面對人生轉折、穩固工作與事業的發展、或是連結禪修與其他社會領域等，以思索禪修做為自我轉化的修行技藝在現代社會的日常宗教意涵。 In recent years, research in the sociology of religion has shifted to the exploration of Everyday Religion, finding that religion continues to play an important role in everyday life and has not lost its influence due to modernization. In his autobiography, Footsteps in the Snow, Venerable Sheng Yen also mentions that promoting modern Buddhism and teaching the public to apply Buddhism in their daily lives is his main goal in teaching Buddhism. Through his meditation teachings, he guides people to practice Chan in their daily lives to use Chan (or Buddha Teachings) to have a happy and peaceful life, regardless of their environment or state of mind and body. The practice of meditation in daily life is an essential feature of Venerable Sheng Yen's revival of Chinese Zen Buddhism. Through meditation, individuals can observe themselves, reflect on themselves, and transform themselves in daily life, producing the same effect of technologies of the self that Foucault discusses. On the one hand, this study attempts to grasp the characteristics of Everyday Religion on Venerable Sheng Yen's meditation teachings, and on the other hand, through in-depth interviews with meditators, to explore the practice of meditation in daily life, including managing family and interpersonal relationships, facing life transitions, stabilizing work and career development, or linking meditation with other social fields, in order to consider the everyday religious implications of meditation as the practice of self-transformation in modern society.
