I’ve been marinating on this for the past week...does translating ‘manasikāra’ as ‘attention’ obscure the role that it plays in shaping ongoing experience? Part of this turns on what attention is, and I can’t decide if I think that all forms of orienting are forms of attention...
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara
What could be a possible alternative if not manasikāra?
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara
Is it different from, for example, the way Todd & Manaligod (2018) defined attention: "the process by which we tune ourselves to the world so that the information that is most important to us reaches awareness and guides action”?
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As you know, I think the priority state space stuff is roughly the right way to think about manasikara...but attention is such a contentious term...
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @aviv_eyal
Maybe orienting or adverting -- turning toward -- prior to placing and possibly sustaining. The idea that we are biased in what we orient toward/away from connects to
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Replying to @evantthompson @BecketTodd
I like it better than the translation of "mental application" that I sometimes see for manasikāra.
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I really like “turning toward”
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @aviv_eyal and
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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We discussed this a lot with Georges Dreyfus and John Dunne in the early days of the Mind and Life Summer Institute (around 2005). The consensus was "orienting" is better than "attention" for manasikāra
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Replying to @evantthompson @bodhidave3 and
I thought about it a bit when I read Jonardon's book! But the more that I've read around in the Abhidharma literature, the clearer it's become that it has to be something like orienting, or almost attuning, though that carries a lot of baggage
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