명상도서관

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How does it feel to lack a sense of boundaries? A case study of a long-term mindfulness meditator 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Ataria, Y.,Dor-Ziderman, Y.,Berkovich-Ohana, A.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam
  • 출판년도2015
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Consciousness and cognition
  • 발행사항Vol.37No.-[2015]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1053-8100
  • 소개/요약This paper discusses the phenomenological nature of the sense of boundaries (SB), based on the case of S, who has practiced mindfulness in the Satipathana and Theravada Vipassana traditions for about 40 years and accumulated around 20,000 h of meditative practice. S’s unique abilities enable him to describe his inner lived experience with great precision and clarity. S was asked to shift between three different stages: (a) the default state, (b) the dissolving of the SB, and (c) the disappearance of the SB. Based on his descriptions, we identified seven categories (with some overlap) that alter during the shifts between these stages, including the senses of: (1) internal versus external, (2) time, (3) location, (4) self, (5) agency (control), (6) ownership, and (7) center (first-person-egocentric-bodily perspective). Two other categories, the touching/touched structure and one’s bodily feelings, do not fade away completely even when the sense-of-boundaries disappears.