Interesting paper
Abstract
During the last decade, many psychotherapists have successfully applied
meditation on treatment and rehabilitation for the patients who get affected by
depression, drug abuse or antisocial behaviors… to bring them back to normal life.
However, to those who have the incurable illness, incompetent of living an
ordinary life is little paid adequate attention. Whether or not it is possible for them
to live a good life within illness is, nonetheless, a challenging question for us. With
a holistic approach, this paper will articulate the importance of mindful breathing
started on the physical body as an ethical meditation so that the body can transform
within. Concept of the lived body in Merleau Ponty‟s phenomenology will be
modified in the Buddhist context. The purpose is to elicit the interwoven of the
body and the world in the perpetual perception, and the efficiency of attention will
be cultivated in the practice of mindful breathing so as to remodel the intentional
habit of dichotomous conception of the agency and grasping attitude. The shifting
of inner landscape settings will give patients a fresh and creative look at the
environing world. It is in the world that body finds itself is a life-giving, neither
birth nor death and beyond fear even on deathbed.
Key words: lived body, perception, attention, intention, mindful breathing,
neither birth nor death
You can read the paper HERE
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