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Professor Tymieniecka’s Logos and Life, Book Two: The Three Movements of the Soul, which is part of a larger critique of Reason via an analysis of human creativity, has received much recognition as a groundbreaking work in the Phenomenology of Religion.2 She herein offers an overarching theory of spiritual development via a phenomenological analysis of spiritual/creative acts, which she claims are uniquely human phenomena. These “pre-empirical stirrings” are not directly accessible to consciousness, hence much of the early part of her work is focused on uncovering the essential characteristics of these acts. Due to time considerations, I will here solely focus on the fruits of her analysis, the three movements of the soul. I will offer the briefest explication of each of these movements and then provide a comparative analysis of them via the stages of mystical development suggested in the Ox herding pictures of Zen Buddhism. I close with two suggestions for further development.
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An earlier version of this paper was delivered as a presentation at The World Phenomenological Institute Conference in Boston, 1993.
Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Logos and Life,Book Two: The Three Movements of the Soul (Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, 1988). For reviews, see Phenomenological Inquiry, v. XIV, October, 1990.
Recorded in Philip Kapleau’s The Three Pillars of Zen (Anchor Books, NY, 1980), p. 314.
Ibid., p. 315.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 319.
Satori experiences (at least under this depiction) are excellent candidates for being instances of a state of consciousness which is currently being referred to as a Pure Conscious Event, allegedly a nonintentional/contentless conscious state; see Robert Forman’s The Problem of Pure Consciousness (Oxford University Press, NY, 1990).
Kapleau, p. 323.
Suzuki, D. T. Essays in Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki, edited by William Barrett (Doubleday Anchor, Garden City, NY, 1956).
Danto, Arthur, Mysticism and Morality (Columbia University Press, NY, 1987).
The Biography of Master Great Man“, in: Donald Holzman, Poetry and Politics: the Life and Works of Juan Chi (A. D. 210–263) (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1976).
Ibid., p. 197; quoted in Tymieniecka, p. 202.
Tymieniecka, p. 202.
Suzuki, p. 258.
The Way of Chuang-Tzu, edited by Thomas Merton (New Directions Press, 1969), p. 97.
I in fact attempt such a development in my dissertation, The Meaning of Mystical Life: An Inquiry into Phenomenological and Moral Aspects of the Ways of Life Advocated by Dogen Zenj: and Meister Eckhart (University of California, Irvine), utilizing Eckhart’s and
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Zelinski, D. (1998). Zen and Tymieniecka’s. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology of Life and the Human Creative Condition. Analecta Husserliana, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2604-7_22
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