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This Discrete Charm of Shunyata (Emptiness) and Zen in the Art of Basketball
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Stefan Sencerz
- 학회/출판사/기관명Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre
- 출판년도2022
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Journal for the Study of Religious Experience
- 발행사항Volume 8, No. 1
- ISBN/ISSN2057-2301
- 소개/요약Teachings about śūnyatā-emptiness play a central role in Mahayana Buddhism. They are also among the most difficult teachings to grasp, both by those who analyze Buddhism in an intellectual way and by those who practice Buddhism (including the practice of meditation within a Buddhist context). At the same time, the game of basketball and the rituals surrounding it are sometimes hard to appreciate by those who are not already basketball aficionados. Somehow, basketball fans perceive the game only in terms of shallow entertainment in a competitive environment. Consequently, they tend to miss the philosophical, spiritual, and even mystical aspects of the game (and of sports in general). I argue in this essay that the language and rituals surrounding the game of basketball provide ‘windows’ to what is called by Buddhists śūnyatā. Thus, these language and rituals help us to understand phenomenology of meditative states as well as the related metaphysics and epistemology developed in the context of Mahayana Buddhism (especially Zen Buddhism). In turn, the language and rituals developed within the tradition of Zen help us to understand what sometimes happens on the basketball court.
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