I wrote a short response to @danielmingram about the mechanisms of change in vipassana meditation. https://parletre.wordpress.com/2019/06/23/response-to-ingram-2/ … @evantthompson @Meaningness @non_buddhism @Sciamanoinglese @redpillchange @ronpurser @SamHarrisOrg @Failed_Buddhist @ordinarymind1
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Replying to @SpeakingSubject @danielmingram and
I could not agree more that vipassana meditation is a conceptually structured religious ritual not an investigation of reality as it actually is.
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Replying to @evantthompson @danielmingram and
What are your thoughts about its change mechanisms? (See post.)
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1/6 I'm suspicious of "stages of insight" maps. They're normative/prescriptive, not descriptive.
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2/6 Historically, they're constructs made under multiple constraints/pressures (doctrinal, hermeneutical, etc.)
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3/6 I agree the maps provide a higher-order symbolic language that can be helpful for some, unhelpful for others
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4/6 Seeing things in terms of the "3 characteristics" is a kind of meaning-making, not a direct inspection of things as they are in themselves
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5/6 Change "mechanisms" (not a word I like) have to do with shifts in and cognitive insights into meaning-making, hence are symbolic/linguistic (but not just)
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6/6 But our understanding of symbolic/linguistic needs to be reconfigured along embodied/enactive lines, as in work by Di Paolo and colleagues (@participha )https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/linguistic-bodies …
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Replying to @evantthompson @SpeakingSubject and
I agree with you on this, and we get into it, to some degree, in our final chat, coming out tomorrow.
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