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The Practice of Buddhist Meditation and the Self

What is "practice" according to Buddhism?

Is there a goal in meditation practices? Can we use the word goal?

What is the relationship between the "self" and meditation?

Contextual information

Context

1. Tibetan diaspora

2. Trungpa's popularity

3. The purpose of Trungpa's Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Buddhist Concepts

1. Dharma

2. Subject and object relations

3. "The spiritual path"

4. Cyclical and paradoxical

Buddhism

Spiritual Materialism

"Ego is able to convert everything to its own use, even spirituality" (Trungpa 7)

"The ego is seeming solid and cannot really absorb anything, it can only mimic" (Trungpa 7)

Spiritual Materialism

Meditation as a practice

Medication as a practice

1. Action in terms of energy

2. Ethical action

3. Skill, not struggle

4. Engagement with the real

5. Pedagogical means

Meditation and the Self

1. "Egoless state" (Trungpa 80)

2. "Non-self" vs. "Not-self"

3. A middle way of Control and relaxation

Meditation and the Self

Paradox

1. The Watcher principle

2. Language (Sedgwick)

3. Desire (Barthes)

Implications and thoughts

Implications

Contemporary practices

On Art

1. The artistic practice

2. Artist

3. Reception

Maybe no separation

of the three?

Do we just look at this like

"the finger pointing to

the moon"?

On the 21st century

1. Self-help movement

2. "Mindfulness"

and the use of meditation

On the 21st Century

Trungpa

On Trungpa

A controversial figure

Let's meditate.

Meditation Practice (Real)

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