THE BODY

Tbward an Eastem Mind-Body Theory

YUASA Yasuo
edited by
Thomas P. Kasulis
translated by
NAGATOMO Shigenori
Thomas P. Kasulis
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORI< PRESS
CONTENTS
Editor's Introduetion
Author's Preface and Acknowledgements
(from japanese edition)
Author's Introduetion to the English Edition
PART I: VIEWS OF THE BODY IN MODERN
jAPANESE THOUGHT
1
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21
Editor's Summary 31
CHAPTER ONE WATSUjl Tetsuro's View of the Body 37
Space anti body in intersubjectivity 37; Differeru:es between
East anti West in understantling spatial-temporal experience 41,
Unity 0/ body-mintl 46
CHAPTER TWO NISHIDA KitarO's View of the Body 49
The body's ambiguity in acting intuition 50, Time-consciousness anti
space-consciousness in relation to the body 52; The basho lplacej
vis-d-vis being anti vis-d-vis nothing 56; Dual-layered
consciousness 60; Practical apodicticity in experience qua basho 63;
The dual structure in acting intuition 65; Problematics in Nishida's
metlwd 72
CHAPTER THREE Method and Attitude in Studying Eastem
Thought 75
The needJor methodological reflection 7'; Depth psychoIoD anti
Eastem metaphysics 76
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PART 11: CULTIVATION AND THE BODY
Editor's Summary 81
CHAPTER FOUR What Is Cultivation [shugyoH 85
Kairitsu [precepts and canonicallawj in Indian Buddhism 8';
Kairitsu in China and]apan 89; Kairitsu and cultivation in
]apanese Buddhism 9J; The meaning 0/ cultivation 98
CHAPTER FIVE Theories of Artistry [geido] 99
Cultivation and training in the waka theory 01poetry 99; The
waka-dhraJ;l1 101; Performance and mind in Zeami 104; No-mind
and body-mind oneness 107
CHAPTER SIX Dogen 111
Zen's practical character 111; Cultivation's reversal 0/ the ordinary
understanding 0/ being . 114; 11Ie body-mind relation in seated
meditation 118; Molting the ordinary dimension 122
CHAPTER SEVEN Kokai 125
Chinese Buddhism and the Indian character 0/ tantric Buddhism 126;
Cultivation and the ten stages 01 mind 1JO; 11Ie body and
sexuality 1JJ,' Sublimation 01 eros in the mandala 1J6; Comparison
with meditation in Ku7J4alini Yoga 14J; The body-mind relation as
sokushinjbutsu 148,' Overcoming the body's ambiguity through
cultivation 151
PART 111: THE CONTEMPORARY SICNIFICANCE OF EASTERN
MIND-BODY THEORIES
Editor's Summary 157
CHAPTER EICHT Contemporary Philosophical Mind-Body
Theories 161
Bergson's Motor Scheme: Beneath the permeation 01perception and
memory 162; Brainfunction and the body's motor-scheme 16';
Merltau-Ponty's Somatic Scheme: The sensory-motor circuit and The
somatic scheme 167; Internal perception 170; The existential
intentional arc in the habitual body 171; General assessment 0/
Merleau-Ponty's theory ofthe body 174; Emotions: 11Ie base ofthe
sensory-motor circuit 175,' Two directions in emotion 178
CHAPTER NI NE Dual Strueture of the Mind-Body Relationship 181
Surface and base structures: Dual psychopkysiological structures 0/
body and mind 181; Psychophysiological research and Eastem
thought 187; Philosophical significance 0/ body-mind research 191;
Contents vii
Reversing our ordinary understanding 0/ the mind-body relation:
Reevaluation 0/ Bergson 19j; Intuition and the unconscious 199
CHAPTER TEN Eastern Meditation 203
Psychotherapy and cultivation: Disease and eure in psychosomatic
meditine 20); psychotherapy and meditative cultivation 207; 71Ie
body-mind relation in Indln meditation 210,' Metaphysics and the
mind-bady theory: Body-mind and Eastern metaphysics
(metapsychics) 216; The body in Indian and Chinese medicine 219;
Intuition and humanness 221,' Paranormal Anowledge 229
Autho(s Conclusion to the English Edition 233
Notes 241
Index 253