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Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism: deconstructive modes of spiritual inquiry

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Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism: deconstructive modes of spiritual inquiry

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Continuum

Continuum studies in Eastern philosophies

Leesa S. Davis

Introduction: experiential deconstructive inquiry -- Foundational philosophies and spiritual methods -- Non-duality in Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism -- Ontological differences and non-duality -- Meditative inquiry, questioning, and dialoguing as a means to spiritual insight -- The 'undoing' or deconstruction of dualistic conceptions -- Advaita Vedanta : philosophical foundations and deconstructive strategies -- Sources of the tradition -- Upanisads : 'that art thou' )tat tvam asi( -- Gaudapada )c.7th century( : 'no bondage, no liberation' -- Sankara )c.7th-8th century( : 'there is no apprehender different from this apprehension to apprehend it' -- Modern and contemporary masters -- Ramana Maharshi )9781-0591( : 'who am I?' -- H.W.L Poonja )0191-7991( : 'you have to do nothing to be who you are!' -- Gangaji )b. 2491( : 'you are that!' -- Advaita Vedanta summary : 'nothing ever happens' -- Zen Buddhism : philosophical foundations and deconstructive strategies -- Sources of the tradition -- The Lankavatara Sutra and the Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra : 'all things ... are not independent of each other and not two' -- Nagarjuna )c.311-312( : 'Samsara is nothing essentially different from nirvana. Nirvana is nothing essentially different from samsara' -- Eihei Dogen )0021-3521( : 'if I am already enlightened, why must I practice?' -- Contemporary masters -- Ekai Korematsu )b. 8491( : 'return to the spine' -- Hogen Yamahata )b. 5391( : 'why not now?' -- Zen Buddhism summary : 'neither being nor non-being is to be taken hold of' -- Deconstructive techniques and dynamics of experiential undoing -- Four deconstructive techniques common to both traditions -- The teacher-student dynamic -- Four key deconstructive techniques -- Unfindability analysis -- Bringing everything back to the here and now -- Paradoxical problems -- Negation -- Dynamics of experiential undoing -- Non-dual experiential 'space' -- Experiential mapping : practitioners in the space -- Experiential undoing in Advaita Vedanta -- Experiential undoing in Zen Buddhism -- Conclusion: deconstruction of reified awareness

، Advaita

، Vedanta

، Zen Buddhism

، Deconstruction

Davis, Leesa S

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