[Buddha-l] Query about Francisco Varela

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Joanna, sorry for the mix up, but the recommandation was part of a 
quote, which consists of the entire text, that was brought up as a proof 
that Varela was well informed about phenomenolgy. So he may have read 
the article. I have never read the article myself, so I cannot recommend it.

jkirk wrote:
> Ok Erik, you wrote: "The book contains a very good paper by Natalie 
> Depraz called 'The Phenomenological Reduction as Praxis'."
>
> Now *which* book are you referring to here?.........previously cited 
> was a pdf *article*, as I took it, not a book--or is this pdf coming 
> from a book? If
> so, again, which book?
> Geez people--please be more specific. Someone earlier referred to an 
> essay by Varela, that got published as a book, as first an essay and 
> then later it turns out as a book. That one got straightened out 
> finally, but not this item.
> Thanks,
> Joanna
> ===================================
>
>> Are you sure?
>>
>> See:
>> "Three Gestures of Becoming Aware" (p. 2 "The Second Approach: 
>> Phenomenology")
>>
>> http://www.dialogonleadership.org/Varela-2000.pdf
> This is the text:
> =====================
> When it comes to the how-to aspect, there are two other traditions that
> triangulate our book. The next one is the tradition in phenomenology,
> which is independent from the introspective tradition. It is a tradition
> that was put into practice especially starting with the founder of
> phenomenology, Edmund Husserl. Husserl was a remarkable guy because he
> actually did it. He was an uncanny and gifted individual. His
> descriptions, his capacity to actually suspend his preconceptions and
> examine the structuring, the layering, and the genesis of his own
> experience was uncanny — he was like a *Mozart of experience*. He knew
> how to do it, and he described it in many ways, but he was less
> interested in giving full details about how to develop that skill as a
> method that can be taught and practiced.
>
> The result has been an interesting evolution within phenomenology, which
> is to say, how do we actually take these insights that Husserl left us
> and use them? Not just repeat what he said, which is what many
> philosophers have done, but actually /redo/ it. The book contains a very
> good paper by Natalie Depraz called “The Phenomenological Reduction as
> Praxis/./” So the second approach revolves around the phenomenological
> tradition.
>
> Having read this brillant analysis I rest my case.
>
> Erik
>
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