The Body_ Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory

Abstract

Editor's Introduction ; Author's Preface and Acknowledgements (from Japanese edition) ; Author's Introduction to the English Edition ; Part I: Views Of The Body In Modern Japanese Thought Editor's Summary ; Chapter One Watsuji Tetsuro's * View of the Body ; Space and body in intersubjectivity ; Differences between East and West in understanding spatial-temporal experience ; Unity of body-mind ; Chapter Two Nishida Kitaro's*View of the Body ; The body's ambiguity in acting intuition ; Time-consciousness and space-consciousness in relation to the body ; The basho [place] via-à-vis being and vis-à-vis nothing ; Dual-layered consciousness ; Practical apodicticity in experience qua basho; The dual structure in acting intuition ; Problematics in Nishida's method ; Chapter Three Method and Attitude in Studying Eastern Thought ; The need for methodological reflection ; Depth psychology and Eastern metaphysics ; Part II: Cultivation and the Body Editor's Summary ; Chapter Four What Is Cultivation [shugyo *]? ; Kairitsu [precepts and canonical law] in Indian Buddhism ; Kairitsu in China and Japan; Kairitsu and cultivation in Japanese Buddhism ; The meaning of cultivation ; Chapter Five Theories of Artistry [geido*] ; Cultivation and training in the waka theory of poetry ; The waka-dharani* ; Performance and mind in Zeami ; No-mind and body-mind oneness ; Chapter Six Dogen* ; Zen's practical character ; Cultivation's reversal of the ordinary understanding of being; The body-mind relation in seated meditation ; Molting the ordinary dimension ; Chapter Seven Kukai* ; Chinese Buddhism and the Indian character of tantric Buddhism ; Cultivation and the ten stages of mind ; The body and sexuality ; Sublimation of eros in the mandala ; Comparison with meditation in Kundalini* Yoga ; The body-mind relation as sokushinjobutsu* ; Overcoming the body's ambiguity through cultivation ; Part III: The Contemporary Significance of Eastern Mind-Body Theories Editor's Summary ; Chapter Eight Contemporary Philosophical Mind-Body Theories ; Bergson's Motor Scheme: Beneath the permeation of perception and memory ; Brain function and the body's motor-scheme; Merleau-Ponty's Somatic Scheme: The sensory-motor circuit and The somatic scheme ; Internal perception ; The existential intentional arc in the habitual body ; General assessment of Merleau-Ponty's theory of the body ; Emotions: The base of the sensory-motor circuit ; Two directions in emotion ; Chapter Nine Dual Structure of the Mind-Body Relationship ; Surface and base structures: Dual psychophysiological structures of body and mind ; Psychophysiological research and Eastern thought ; Philosophical significance of body-mind research ; Reversing our ordinary understanding of the mind-body relation: Reevaluation of Bergson ; Intuition and the unconscious; Chapter Ten Eastern Meditation ; Psychotherapy and cultivation: Disease and cure in psychosomatic medicine ; Psychotherapy and meditative cultivation ; The body-mind relation in Indian meditation ; Metaphysics and the mind-body theory: Body-mind and Eastern metaphysics ; The body in Indian and Chinese medicine ; Intuition and humanness ; Paranormal knowledge ; Author's Conclusion to the English Edition ; Notes ; Index ;