Buddhist meditation and the consciousness of time

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By this author: Novak P.

Author: Novak P.

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 3, Number 3, 1996 , pp. 267-277(11)

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Abstract:

This paper first reviews key Buddhist concepts of time anicca (impermanence), khanavada (instantaneous being) and uji (being time) and then describes the way in which a particular form of Bhuddist meditation, vipassana, may be thought to actualize them in human experience. The chief aim of the paper is to present a heuristic model of how vipassana meditation, by eroding dispositional tendencies rooted in the body-unconscious alters psychological time, transforming our felt-experience of time from a binding to a liberating force.

Keywords: Buddhism; uji; khanavada; body-unconscious; anicca; dispositional tendencies; consciousness; time; vipassana; meditation; Buddhist meditation