Act; Emptiness; Enlightenment; Fulfillment; Humanism; Meditation; Nothingness; Person; Phenomenology; Taoism; Training; Zen Buddhism; Dogen, Kigen; Hakuin, Ekaku; 龍樹=Nagarjuna=kLu-sgrub; Kasulis, T. P.
摘要
Placing the statements and conduct of Zen masters within their linguistic, historical and cultural settings, the book investigates the Zen Buddhist views of reflection, creativity, self-consciousness and freedom. The book develops an existential phenomenology of enlightenment in order to elucidate how such traditional notions as No-Mind, Without-Thinking, and Nothingness constitute the context in which the Zen person acts. The book argues that the Zen concepts are intelligible, philosophically consistent, and suggestive of a new basis for humanism, one that emphasizes action as the defining characteristic of personhood. Whenever appropriate, comparisons and contrasts with other Asian philosophies and modern western philosophy are developed.
目次
Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Part I / The Context of Nothingness Chapter 1. The Cultural Setting: Context and Personal Meaning 3 Chapter 2. Nagarjuna: The Logic of Emptiness 16 Chapter 3. Chinese Taoism: The Pre-ontology of Nonbeing 29 Chapter 4. No-Mind: The Zen Response to Nothingness 39 Part II / Personal Meaning in Xen Practice Chapter 5. Zen and Reality 55 Chapter 6. Dogen's Phenomenology of Zazen 65 Chapter 7. Dōgen: Person as Presence 87 Chapter 8. Hakuin: The Psychodynamics of Zen Training 104 Part III / The Person as Act Chapter 9. Zen Action/Zen Person 127 Chapter 10. Philosophical Postscript: Toward a Zen Humanism 142
