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Cessations of consciousness in meditation: Advancing a scientific understanding of nirodha samāpatti
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Ruben E. Laukkonena, Matthew D. Sacchetb, Henk Barendregtc, Kathryn J. Devaneyd, Avijit Chowdhuryb and Heleen A. Slagtere
- 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier
- 출판년도2023
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- 학술지명/학위논문주기Progress in Brain Research
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- ISBN/ISSN0079-6123
- 소개/요약Absence of consciousness can occur due to a concussion, anesthetization, intoxication, epileptic seizure, or other fainting/syncope episode caused by lack of blood flow to the brain. However, some meditation practitioners also report that it is possible to undergo a total absence of consciousness during meditation, lasting up to 7 days, and that these “cessations” can be consistently induced. One form of extended cessation (i.e., nirodha samāpatti) is thought to be different from sleep because practitioners are said to be completely impervious to external stimulation. That is, they cannot be 'woken up' from the cessation state as one might be from a dream. Cessations are also associated with the absence of any time experience or tiredness, and are said to involve a stiff rather than a relaxed body. Emergence from meditation-induced cessations is said to have profound effects on subsequent cognition and experience (e.g., resulting in a sudden sense of clarity, openness, and possibly insights). In this paper, we briefly outline the historical context for cessation events, present preliminary data from two labs, set a research agenda for their study, and provide an initial framework for understanding what meditation induced cessation may reveal about the mind and brain. We conclude by integrating these so-called nirodha and nirodha samāpatti experiences—as they are known in classical Buddhism—into current cognitive-neurocomputational and active inference frameworks of meditation.
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