Contemplative Learning and Inquiry across Disciplines

Index

Index 401 Abe, Masao, 41–43 academia. See educational institutions, postsecondary academic capitalism, 259, 261–64 defined, 259 academic materialism, defined, 254 Adelman, Mara, 51, 65 Ahmed, Leila, 141 ambiguity, 312, 347–48, 356 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Contemplative Practice Fellowship Program, 361, 363 Anapanasati Sutta (“Mindfulness of Breathing”), 105 anima, 344. See also feminine archetype anitya, 36, 38, 46 annata (no-self), 373–74 anxiety disorders, 177 archetypes feminine, 344, 345, 357n1 oppositional, 343–44. See also oppositions Aristotle, 159 artistic practices, 334–35 arts, role of contemplation in the, 99 aspirations of students, 280 Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, 22, 86, 87 atomistic psychology, 384 attention, 55–56. See also concentration compassionate, 25–27, 75 meditation and, 201–4 sustained voluntary, 21–23 “attention capitalism,” 52 attention enhancement, 63 attunement to nature, 57 to self or “self-formation,” 57 Augustine of Hippo, Saint, 159 Austin, James, 109 avidya, 35–36, 38, 40–42, 44–45 awakening, 135 awareness. See also consciousness becoming aware, 328–29 cultivation of, 292–95 returning to, 276, 288 Bache, Christopher, 307, 355, 356, 379–80, 388 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz and Contemplative Studies (BFAJCS), 364–65 Bai, Heesoon, 297, 300, 313 bardo, 278, 285 defined, 273 emptiness, creativity, and, 273–76 “Bat Nah” Koan, 138, 141 Beck, J. C., 52, 54 being-of attitude, 343–45, 347, 352–54, 356–57 Berger, Peter, 233–34, 248 Berling, J., 44 Berry, Wendell, 16–18 Between (Buber), 78 between, sphere of, 336. See also in-between 402 Index bodhicitta (mind of enlightenment), 255 body-mind-heart-spirit interconnection and integration, 296–97. See also mind-body dualism Body Scan, 169, 171, 187 Bohm, David, 23–24 “Boomeritus Buddhism,” 373 boredom, solitude and, 59 bounded awareness, 151 bowing as the start of class, 280–81 Braman, S., 53 breath, 78 observing and counting the, 75 breath hunting, 82, 83, 91 Breathing Practice, 91 Brown, Juanita, 385, 388 Brown, K., 61 Brown, Richard C., 271 Brown University, 97–98, 112, 364 Buber, Martin on betweenness, 54, 78 on elemental otherness, 329 on eternal Thou, 299–300 on existence, 337 on holy insecurity, 327, 331, 332 on I-Thou relationship, 299, 327–32, 336, 342 philosophy of dialogue, 299–300, 326–34, 337 on spirituality, 78 on synthesizing apperception, 300, 327, 333 on uncertainty, 331, 332 Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), 159 Buddha, becoming a, 40, 41 Buddhism. See also specific topics pre-integral, 373 psychotherapy and, 40–41 schools of, 32. See also Shin Buddhist thought and mutuality; Zen science and, 202, 374 Bugental, J. F. T., 308 Burapha University, 85, 91–92 California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), 86, 365 Carlin, George, 60 Carlson, L. E., 201 “Cartesian moment,” 1 celebrations at end of semester, 284 in middle of semester, 283 Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (CCMS), 2, 22, 86, 207 Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (CFM), 165 Chah, Ajahn (Achaan), 93, 170 Chödrön, Pema, 263 class field/class mind, 382 classes. See also specific topics routines and rituals at the start of, 279–81 unexpected interruptions in, 282 classics contemplative studies, 103–6 classroom contemplative, 139–41 as Dao-field, 299–301 endings in, 283–84 classroom transitions, 283 beginnings, 279–81 in the middle, 281–83 closing celebrations at end of semester, 284 cognition, flowing, 102 cognitive effects of meditation, 204–6 cognitive science, 102, 103 Cohen, Avraham, 297, 300 collaboration, posture of, 386 collective dimension of learning, 387. See also consciousness; group fields; Living Classroom collective fields, 355. See also under consciousness collective unconscious, 343–48, 356 Collette, 56 Collins, Randall, 247 403 Index Combs, A., 348 Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn), 169, 171, 173–74 commodification, 263 communication technology, 55–56 communities, creation and sustaining of human, 256 community innovation, 225–26 compassion, 351–52 defined, 351 compassionate attention, 25–27, 75 compassionate presence, 343, 345, 347, 349, 351, 353, 356–57 Comte, August, 154 concentration, 140, 157, 159. See also attention strengthening, 24, 25 concentration meditation, 109–10, 158–59, 208 concentration practices, 109–10, 158, 159, 161 concentrative techniques, 110 conceptual grammar, 34–36 conferences on contemplative approaches to instruction and learning, 2, 123–24, 175 confirmation, 329 conflict management, 222–23 consciousness, 72. See also awareness collective, field aspect of, 372, 384–85, 389. See also collective fields...