01 Meditation Panel Preface.indd - United Nations Day of Vesak 2013

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Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation Practice Meditating on impermanence can help dispel the despair of environmentalists and develop an acceptance of impermanency, which brings peace and wisdom in how to reverse global warming. Meditating on the impermanence of someone, who caused us to suffer and hate them, can dissolve anger and foster love and compassion for that person and for ourselves. Looking deeply at there being no birth and no death, we realize that nothing comes and is born, and nothing dies and goes. There is no existence and no non-existence. We realize interdependence, interpenetration, and interbeing, that there is no separate self, and that “all is one and one is all” (Thich Nhat Hanh, 2009, p.94). Birth and death are both illusory, and reality is birthless and deathless; realising this can liberate us from our fears and sorrows. How can this be achieved? Through seeing, smiling, and breathing, comments (Thich Nhat Hanh, 2009, p.96); “Seeing the deathless nature of my consciousness, I breathe in. Smiling to the deathless nature of my consciousness, I breathe out.” Looking deeply at self as a collection of aggregates, rooted in everything (e.g. water), it can be seen that the view of self as a separate entity is erroneous. Thich Nhat Hanh comments on the Diamond Sutra, whose purpose he says is to overturn habitual patterns of thought that the self, our species, and other species are separately existing entities, or that a life span begins with birth and ends with death. Instead, all species are interconnected and interdependent – and a human life is present before birth and after death in many different forms, such as in elements, descendants, and culture. Birth and death are only apparently so, when in fact they do not exist. Such a realization enhances our love and respect for other species. Conclusion: This article examined mindfulness meditation, as presented in the literature of Zen, focusing on the writings of Thich Nhat Hanh, whilst also making reference to other Engaged Buddhist authors. It explored the relationship between Buddhist philosophy (especially non-dualism) and praxis, enquiring how meditation effects transformation. The key nding is that Thich Nhat Hanh emphasizes non-duality in mindfulness meditation and thereby is able to relate it to praxis. He does this in two ways; rstly, through emphasizing the non-duality of mind/body, self/other, and self/ environment, and secondly, through explaining his teaching through metaphors that mediate these non-dualities. Most of the metaphors used by Thich Nhat Hanh relate to organic growth in nature, reecting his caring, nurturing and humanistic Buddhism. Engaged Buddhism requires this kind of meditation as well as this approach to communicating it. Zen has traditionally privileged meditation over and above other aspects of Buddhist tradition and practice. Thich Nhat Hanh is in line with this tradition but by explaining how mindfulness is to be understood and practiced within daily life and in relation to others and our environment, meditation is no longer seen as a narrow focus but as universally applicable. Accordingly, Thich Nhat Hanh (1987a; interbeing.org.uk) reinterprets and renames the Five Precepts of Buddhism as the ‘Five Mindfulness Trainings’, with changed emphases from prohibition to constructive action, and from individual to broader levels of analysis. It is concluded that Thich Nhat Hanh’s particular privileging of non-dual meditation enables the relationship between meditation and praxis – and that metaphorical discourse is crucial for our understanding of this relationship, and to ensure that meditation leads to social and environmental action. 155
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