Thèse 3e cycle--Philosophie--Paris, 1967. / Bibliogr. f. 213-223. Ex. multigraphié.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät I--Universität Zürich, 1987/1988. / Résumé en anglais.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2002. / Advisers: Weiming Tu, Robert M. Gimello. Includes bibliographical references.

Diss.--Innsbruck--Universität, 1999. / Bibliogr. p. 207-222.

Submitted by Beatriz_ Estagiaria (marcianb@ig.com.br) on 2012-02-01T12:37:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 000059221.pdf: 4377385 bytes, checksum: 3af1d4cd7df6ad8ea04a2d76a3da3e55 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-02-01T12:38:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 000059221.pdf: 4377385 bytes, checksum: 3af1d4cd7df6ad8ea04a2d76a3da3e55 (MD5) / This study attempts at placing side by side two notions related to man and world: Cartesianism and Zen-Buddhism. It emphasizes the fragmentary aspect of the first notion, and the wholeness of the latter. Its main object is to contribute to a broader interrelation and integration of man by means of three movements. The first one is a criticism towards the rationalistic, mechanical, prepotent and unnatural concept based on the dualistic and antithetic logic of the western paradigm of science and thought founded mainly by René Descartes. The second aspect deals with the dissemination and emphatic exposition of Buddhist methaphysics and mysticism and our Western academic sphere, specially the Zen concept, which conceives the world as a whole linked to a universal balance in change and evolution, wherein words, permanent knowledge and perception are mere transitory signs that hide cosmic reality. The final aspect attempts at denying a manichaean concept of reality, where the meaning of opposites is not seen as the extinction of one side by the other, but as the search for a new synthesis: the gestation of a new word referential -and here we just mention this subject -to be developed through ultimate integration of the so-called and Eastern paradigms. / Este trabalho procura justapor duas visões do homem no mundo, a cartesiana e a zen-budista, ressaltando o aspecto fragmentador da primeira e o aspecto integrador da segunda. O objetivo básico é contribuir para maior articulação e integração do homem contemporâneo através de três movimentos. Primeiro, através da critica à concepçao racionalista, mecânica, prepotente e antinatural, fundada na lógica dual e antitética do paradigma da ciência e do pensamento ocidental em boa parte construido por René Descartes; Segundo, através da divulgação e da exposição enfática, em nosso meio acadêmico ocidental, da metafisica e da mística budistas, especialmente em sua versão Zen, que compreende o mundo em permanente transformação e construção como um todo articulado ao equilibrio universal, no qual as palavras, os conhecimentos e a percepção são meros signos passageiros que escondem a realidade cósmica. O movimento final pretende negar uma visão maniqueísta da realidade onde a oposição não é vista como a liquidação de um dos termos pelo outro, mas como a busca de uma nova síntese: a gestação, enfim, de um novo referencial do mundo - e aqui apenas se levanta a questão - a ser construído, quem sabe, a partir da integração dos paradigmas caracterizados hoje como ocidental e oriental.

This inquiry started by examining my own and others experience of Zen, and comparing it with Self Organised Learning. The aim was to see what effect each system had on the lives of the participants. The thesis plots how I had a tacit reliance on myself as a measuring instrument, and how this became an integrating theme running through my 'finally chosen' methods. The methodological difficulties caused by the paradox of trying to understand Zen and also be scientific converged when I realised that I had treated myself as the central measuring instrument throughout the inquiry. It was this discovery which allowed the thesis to be treated as a koan from a Zen perspective and yet to be a contribution to academic knowledge. The thesis traces how personal authenticity became the defining characteristic informing all my methodology. This inquiry asks and answers the question can research be transpersonal? Initially the research started out looking at a transpersonal issue in the form of asking those who had regular interactions with a Zen master about their experience. This learning curve was contrasted with Learning Conversations with postgraduates at the centre for the Study of Human Learning, using inner directed learning in their research projects. During the research process, several major re-orientations took place which, necessitated changing my method and my interpretation of the data. These shifts of direction were largely driven by a need to find a method of inquiry which was appropriate to uncovering the transpersonal qualities I was investigating. As the inquiry developed I widened my sources of data to include art, fiction, accounts of death and grieving, and satsang (questions and answers with a master) in order to give an in depth picture of the impact of the transpersonal on participants' lives. In treating the thesis as a koan there can be no emphasis placed on which purposes related to which outcomes. It was in the gradual abandonment of such a stance that the deeper insights and resolutions occurred. During the inquiry I eventually identified the qualities of wholeness, authenticity and openness as the defining characteristics which appeared to trigger changes in direction. Such an approach made it necessary to examine the implications for validity that approaching transpersonal issues in this way had uncovered.

Si l’ineffable est tenu pour le paradoxe emblématique dans la secte zen de la religion bouddhique, il semble que le rétrécissement du langage se manifeste dans la mesure de l’interprétation de buddhadhātu (la bouddheité ; nature de bouddha). Il est donc évident que le zen admet à la fois une lacune de langage et une sorte de mouvement permanent de phénomène entraînant ainsi, selon le terme sanskrit du bouddhisme, un sentiment de śūnyatā (la vacuité). Cette absence de la substance permanente ou ce désir d’échapper à la réalité physique nous permettrait de l’associer naturellement non seulement à l’ineffable vide chez Henri Michaux (1899-1984), mais également à ses créations issues de l’inconscient pour reconstituer un espace sacré dans son dedans. À partir de ce constat, notre recherche tente, en se focalisant sur cette dialectique entre macrocosme et microcosme, d’aborder un esprit oriental qui pourrait remonter à sa source religieuse, et s’approcher plus tard de tous les domaines esthétiques. En effet, les empreintes de la mystique orientale (hindouisme, taoïsme, bouddhisme, etc.) dans l’univers spirituel de Michaux apportent déjà un autre regard vis-à-vis de ses procédés ésotériques et nous dévoileraient même quelque chose à la fois de l’ordre de l’ineffable et de l’invisible. / When the ineffable is widely considered the symbolic paradox in the Zen school of Buddhism, it seems that the narrowness of language has been thus demonstrated in the realm of interpretation of buddhadhātu (buddha-nature). Therefore, the Zen has been characterized by its emphasis on both the rupture of language and a permanent movement of phenomena, which leads probably to a kind of sense of śūnyatā (emptiness). This impermanence of substance or this strong feeling to escape from the physical reality allows us, in this way, to associate it, not only with l’ineffable vide (the ineffable void) of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), but also with his creation driven by the unconsciousness in order to rebuild a sacred space in his dedans (inside).From this perspective, this study aims, by focusing on the dialectic between macrocosm and microcosm, to approach an Oriental spirit which could be traced back to its religious source and gradually permeate through all kinds of aesthetic fields. The stamps of some Oriental mystic thoughts (Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, etc.) in the spiritual world of Michaux have, moreover, brought another point of view towards his esoteric technique and revealed to us something ineffable as well as invisible.

Zugl.: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 2006

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Leiden, 1996. / "Stellingen" ([2] p.) inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-250).

Texte de: Th. 3ème cycle--Etudes extrême-orientales--Paris VII, 1971. / Contient les reprod. en fac-sim. des versions chinoise et japonaise du "Gakudoyojin shu". Bibliogr. p. 179 à 193. Index.