Esoteric Dimensions of Buddhist Meditation: Reaching Out to Transform Other People’s Minds (original) (raw)

Cas-e Blog, 2024

Abstract

The practices of brahmavihara and dhyana meditation, well established in almost all major Buddhist traditions, show underlying philosophical conceptions of consciousness which presuppose a mind capable of radiating empathy, love and compassion, thus, concepts of a mind actually reaching other people's minds. These aspects, in conflict with Western readings of "protestant Buddhism," allow to illustrate philosophical views on consciousness, reality, and the "monadic self," which diverge from Western views on the limits of the mind and its subjective cognitive emotions.

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