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• Title:
  Self-knowledge of the mind in Christianity and Buddhism
• Creator:
  Stróżyński, Mateusz
• Description:
  The article compares the understanding of self-knowledge of the mind in Tibetan Buddhism (in the schools of Mahamudra and Dzogchen) with the ancient, PlatonicChristian philosophy. It argues that in both traditions there are two aspects of the experience of self-knowledge: the impossibility of grasping the mind as an object and theceaseless, unavoidable awareness of the mind’s cognitive activity. The fi rst of those aspects is called by the Tibetan tradition “emptiness”, while the second – lucidity ofthe mind’s nature. In Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine of Hippo we can see a diff erence of accent in terms of the signifi cance of those two motifs, but it seems that bothphilosophers understand self-knowledge in a very similar way. Recognizing those two aspects is what brings the Buddhist and the Western traditions close to each other,while a fundamental diff erence between them lies in the fact that in the latter, selfknowledge of the mind opens a path to the experience of the infi nite mind of God, ofwhich the fi rst is an image, while in Buddhism the concept of God does not appear at all. Individual self-knowledge is treated as the experience of the nature of one, universaland absolute mind.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Mateusz Stróżyński
• Date:
  2021.07.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Filozofia Chrześcijańska; Vol. 17 (2020): Mystical experience in non-Christian religions Philosophical perspective; 19-51;
  Filozofia Chrześcijańska; Tom 17 (2020): Doświadczenie mistyczne w religiach niechrześcijańskich. Perspektywa filozoficzna; 19-51;
  2450-0399;
  1734-4530
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fc/article/view/29011/25964
• Subject:
  samopoznanie;
  buddyzm tybetański;
  chrześcijański platonizm;
  medytacja;
  self-knowledge;
  Tibetan Buddhism;
  Christian Platonism;
  meditation
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fc/article/view/29011
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text