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Writer, UBC Philosophy, Assoc Member Asian Studies & Psych Depts. Married to @beckettodd

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    1. 𖤐 🔥Bryce 🔥𖤐‏ @NeuroYogacara 9 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @aviv_eyal @evantthompson @BecketTodd

      I really like “turning toward”

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    2. bodhidave‏ @bodhidave3 11 Nov 2019
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      1/2 Bhikkhu Bodhi, in discussions of its appearance in the Abhidhamma, often uses "orienting." From a section of a draft paper by Georges Dreyfus, "But what is Mindfulness? A Phenomenological Perspective":pic.twitter.com/r2WiF2ZTqJ

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    3. bodhidave‏ @bodhidave3 11 Nov 2019
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      2/2 That draft paper by Dreyfus is here: https://www.academia.edu/s/ae65d08bbb/but-what-is-mindfulness-a-phenomenological-perspective …

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    4. 𖤐 🔥Bryce 🔥𖤐‏ @NeuroYogacara 11 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @bodhidave3 @aviv_eyal and

      I love the metaphor of 'bending the mind' that Vasubandhu and Sthiramati use in relation to manasikāra...and that sits comfortably with this! "Bending of the mind is the condition by which the mind is directed toward an object..."

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    5. 𖤐 🔥Bryce 🔥𖤐‏ @NeuroYogacara 11 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @NeuroYogacara @bodhidave3 and

      "Its action is to cause the mind to keep hold of an object. Causing the mind to keep hold of an object means to repeatedly turn the mind toward it." (from Sthiramati's commentary on Vasubandhu's Pañcaskandhaprakaraṇa)

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    6. Bsod Nams‏ @bsod_nams 11 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @NeuroYogacara @bodhidave3 and

      You know I love Sthiramati. What do you make of Sthiramati’s recognition that we have an ambiguity of attention as achievement of persons as distinct from attention as subpersonal and moment to moment process?

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    7. 𖤐 🔥Bryce 🔥𖤐‏ @NeuroYogacara 11 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @bsod_nams @bodhidave3 and

      This is such a complicated issue, and I think that drawing on Todd's priority state space model helps to clarify what is going on here. First, I think that we need to recognize that the orienting process is something that occurs in every moment of experience...

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    8. 𖤐 🔥Bryce 🔥𖤐‏ @NeuroYogacara 11 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @NeuroYogacara @bsod_nams and

      but that works out in the way that it does because we have a history that specifies the anchor point for these momentary strategies of orientation. Given that he is working within a Yogācāra framework, I think that Sthiramati needs to acknowledge the importance of history...

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    9. 𖤐 🔥Bryce 🔥𖤐‏ @NeuroYogacara 11 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @NeuroYogacara @bsod_nams and

      and he needs to do so in a way that can explain both how every moment of experience is attentionally structured, and how attention allows a mental continuum to remain fixed upon an object. I guess the way that I would put the point is that each moment of attention directs...

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    10. 𖤐 🔥Bryce 🔥𖤐‏ @NeuroYogacara 11 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @NeuroYogacara @bsod_nams and

      the mind in a way that generates stability, and it does so in a way that is able to orient us more passively that cetanā does. That's all off the top of my head, though, and in twitter speak, so I'm sure there's a lot more to say there...

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      Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson 11 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @NeuroYogacara @bsod_nams and

      Ganeri discusses all this a lot in his latest book on Buddhaghosa, Attention, Not Self. I follow up in a commentary I wrote on the book, which I'll post soon.

      7:35 AM - 11 Nov 2019
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        2. Bsod Nams‏ @bsod_nams 11 Nov 2019
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          Replying to @evantthompson @bodhidave3 and

          Can't wait to read it, Evan, and your work, Bryce. We taught Ganeri but there is a lot more to be done with Buddhist materials, even in Pali alone.

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        3. Bsod Nams‏ @bsod_nams 11 Nov 2019
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          Replying to @bsod_nams @evantthompson and

          That sounded snarky. I meant: we still need an account of buddhist disputes over so many distinctions, conscious versus constitutive, occurrent versus dispositional, and not least, the very notion of mental actions which are neither deliberate actions nor passive events.

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