Participatory Spirituality for the 21st Century
“The development of mindfulness...involves a 'therapeutic split in the ego'...in which the ego becomes both subject and object, observer and observed.... Thus mindfulness is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe its own manifestations.”
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At 8:40 he says that emptiness is metaphorically a pregnant womb, in that it symbolizes an open "potential that is already there." Sounds like withdrawn substance to me. At around 9:00 the interviewer relates this to the capacity for creativity, again reminiscent of Bryant's withdrawn. And not coincidentally hearkening back to Derrida's an-archic khora in this thread, of which Bryant makes use in elucidating the withdrawn.
At around 12:00 he discusses how Freud came to his "evenly suspended attention" and writing was one of those practices. At around 14:00 they discuss why Freud had patients lie on a couch facing away from him. While they don't recognize this, it occurs to me that in every Zen meditation sangha I've attended one faces a wall, not another person.
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