Rethinking the Buddha : early Buddhist philosophy as meditative perception / Eviatar Shulman, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Shulman traces the development of the four noble truths, which in fact originated as observations to be cultivated during meditation.

Chapter 1. The structural relationship between philosophy and meditation. 1.1. The standard description of liberation ; 1.2. "Cessation of perception and feeling" ; 1.3. Broader theoretical perspectives ; 1.3.1. Buddhist pessimism ; 1.3.2. Experience and meditative experience ; 1.4. Methodological considerations: which texts will be relied on and why? -- Chapter 2. A philosophy of being human. 2.1. Did the Buddha eschew metaphysics? ; 2.2. Selflessness ; 2.3. Dependent-origination (Paiccasamuppada) ; 2.3.1. The twelve links and beyond ; 2.2.2. The middle ; 2.4. Summary -- Chapter 3. Mindfulness, or how philosophy becomes perception. 3.1. The Satipahana-sutta's presentation of mindfulness ; 3.2. On the relationship between the practice of mindfulness and jhana-meditation ; 3.3. Summary -- Chapter 4. The Four Noble Truths as meditative perception. 4.1. This ; 4.2. The four truths and dependent-origination ; 4.3. The four truths and selflessness ; 4.4. The fourth truth of the path ; 4.5. The four observations and liberation ; 4.6. The first sermon reconsidered ; 4.7. Summary -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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