Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0034
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Getting Over Yourself","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0034","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter presents some recommendations and advice regarding Buddhism. For Dogen, a famous Japanese Buddhist philosopher, anything the individual does can be a form of Buddhist practice as long as they do it with the right mindset. This counters a temptation to think of practice as something formal, something that happens only at a meditation center or a temple. But ideally, Buddhist practice is not limited in these sacred domains; it is everything that individual does in their life. This can sound overwhelming, but Dogen's insight is that practice is not something the individual does in order to reach enlightenment; it is enlightenment. Ultimately, the heart of Buddhism is recalibrating how the individual relates to themself and to the world. It is about confronting unpleasant realities directly, with an attitude of problem solving.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"410 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125053119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0001
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"The Problem","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This introductory chapter discusses Buddhism's view on worries and anxiety. The basic insight of Buddhism is that the source of this fundamental problem is a mismatch between an individual’s fundamental feeling about the world and how it really is. The painful experiences, the faint buzz of anxiety, they happen because an individual’s outlook on life has certain assumptions built into it that are out of step with reality. Since the source of the problem is that an individual’s way of experiencing things is misaligned with the world, it is important to think and examine very carefully both that outlook and the world. Indeed, Buddhism is about taking a long, hard look at the way things are. Rather than pretending things are not that way or wishing and hoping that somehow things might be different, Buddhism offers a way to live at ease in full view of such facts.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126125652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0020
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Relics and Veneration","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0020","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter addresses the role of relics and veneration in Buddhism. Words like “relic” and “veneration” can often feel too religious and too supernatural. For many with a modern outlook, practices involving the veneration of relics can seem archaic and irrelevant. As a result, they are too often overshadowed by philosophy and meditation in many contemporary discussions of Buddhism. Nevertheless, these practices can not only be deeply meaningful and transformative but are among the most widespread and popular in the Buddhist world today. Indeed, for the vast majority of practicing Buddhists in the world, the veneration of relics and important places is absolutely central to what Buddhism means to them. Most generally, these practices are ways of expressing respect and admiration, but they also bring about changes in one's outlook. They typically involve an especially important object or place, and there are, as one might expect, many variations. Since they often involve magical or supernatural elements, they are sometimes ignored or downplayed in modern forms of Buddhism. They are, however, important in the Buddhist world and offer important lessons, even for those who do not accept the supernatural aspects.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114366647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0025
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Developing Awareness","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0025","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the technique of developing awareness. Many Buddhist techniques are directed toward a particular object. Different objects can be selected for people at different levels of understanding, with different temperaments, or who face different obstacles. Other times, however, we are not aiming to be aware of anything in particular but simply more aware. We are not focused on any particular thing but instead have a heightened sensitivity to everything that is happening. This technique is similar to some of the earlier ones, but it is less like training the eyes to see particular things better and more like improving the sense of vision itself. It helps to develop a kind of discerning awareness of all of the events around life—their origins, duration, and characteristics.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133548755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0010
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Buddhist Psychology","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter studies the importance of examining the nature of mental habits—the normal ways of perceiving, thinking, and feeling. The source of the problem is a mismatch between the usual way of relating to the world and how it really is, so it is important to closely examine mental habits and understand how exactly they obscure reality. Some Buddhists take this even further: It is not that one's mental projections do not match reality, they will say, but it is that there is no reality aside from an individual’s projections. For them, the problem is not a mismatch. The projections themselves are defective, obscuring not an external reality but the nature of the mind itself. The mental habits that distort reality are often called hindrances or poisons. These are things that the mind does that prevent an individual from seeing reality clearly.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133723761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0016
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Philosophy as Practice","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at another way to understand the philosophical aspects of Buddhism. Instead of seeing philosophy as about abstract things to know, we can think of it also as a kind of mental exercise, an intellectual training regimen. Rather than something to know, it is something to work through, something to do. Much of Buddhist philosophy can be read on two levels, as a description of how things are and as instructions for how to realize it. As such, Buddhist philosophy is like an exercise an individual goes through to help them get started in the right direction; it is a process that they go through to get their mind out of its old habits. This means that, like any practice, it is not for everyone and eventually, that individual may not need it anymore.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116047472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0026
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Kindness and Joy","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0026","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on Buddhist practices that aim to change one's feeling about good and bad events in one's life. These practices aim to change one's usual way of relating to others. In particular, they develop a pair of responses called metta and mudita. Metta is often translated as “loving kindness” and is a genuine concern for the happiness of others. Mudita is often translated as “sympathetic joy” and means feeling happy when good things happen to others. Though metta is similar to much of what can be called love or kindness, it is more specific than either. It is a sincere and selfless concern for others, for their happiness and well-being. Mudita is a similarly selfless response toward someone, but it is felt in response to a particular event.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129201250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0011
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Rebirth and Redeath","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the cycle of birth and death in Buddhism. It is important to distinguish rebirth from reincarnation. Reincarnation is the transfer of a soul from body to body. Rebirth, on the other hand, is a cycle of many births and deaths, without any soul linking them. It is commonly called rebirth but it could equally well be redeath since each lifetime involves both a birth and a death. In many traditional forms of Buddhism, this cycle of rebirth and redeath includes supernatural being and places. Many traditional Buddhists think of these places and beings as real. In fact, this is central to many traditional statements of the central problem Buddhism aims to solve; these different kinds of lives all make up what is called samsara. Beings are constantly being born and dying in these different realms, over and over and over. On this traditional understanding, Buddhism solves the problem by ending this cycle of birth and death. The solution, sometimes called nirvana, is about getting out of the cycle.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129423884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0002
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"The Solution","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines two general strands in Buddhism: philosophy and practice. Philosophy involves understanding the nature of the world and the mind. It involves careful examination, reasoning, and analysis of the world in general and the self in particular. Meanwhile, practice involves specific techniques to bring about a change in how we respond to the world. It aims at changing mental habits and ways of experiencing the world. These two aspects can, and often are, discussed separately. This is no surprise given how monumental each task is; people sometimes devote their entire lives to only one philosophical question or Buddhist practice. Nevertheless, these two aspects do inform each other. Philosophy helps to establish the aim of practice. Practice, on the other hand, can help one to have certain experiences which can, in turn, inform ideas about how the world works.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128317784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0029
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Patience","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0029","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter addresses the practice of patience in Buddhism. Some techniques cannot be practiced alone in a quiet place but have to be done on the ground in day-to-day life. Here, the individual works on developing patience not through visualization or imagination but when confronted with real-life people and obstacles. Patience in a Buddhist context is not just about waiting for stuff; it is an attitude toward a much wider range of difficulties. In its most basic sense, it means not getting upset when things do not go to plan, a calm acceptance of frustrating things. What does it mean to respond with patience when people are aggressive or hostile to an individual? At the very least, it means not getting angry or aggravated. Ideally, it also involves responding with compassion and understanding. This does not mean that the individual has to relent and submit to their abuse. Nor does it mean that they smugly respond in a gentle voice with sanctimonious platitudes. Instead, the individual responds with genuine concern for the other individual and their feelings and feels an impulse to help them rather than lash out.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133335840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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