Bodymind (in Meditation Traditions)
Bodymind is a compound of body and mind and may be used differently in different meditation traditions. These different understandings often inform each other.
Buddhist philosopher, Herbert V. Günther has stated:
What we call 'body' and 'mind' are mere abstractions from an identity experience that cannot be reduced to the one or the other abstraction, nor can it be hypostatized into some sort of thing without falsifying its very being.
Modern Western culture inherited a Cartesian Dualism not evident in many other cultures. As a result of multiculturalism and globalization, the Bodymind understood in Navajo and Tibetan cultures as documented by the anthropologist Gold (1994), has dialogued with the Bodymind in what is construed as the New Age.
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