Daoistiniai sąmonės transformacijos ritualai

Abstract

The paper deals with meditative, aware consciousness in Chinese thought. The author shows that illuminated, pure, spontaneous consciousness in Daoism could be approached with specific meditative rituals, and often is treated as a consciousness of everydayness, not really different from ordinary consciousness. Mirror-like consciousness developed in Buddhist and Chan schools has analogies with concept of empty consciousness in Daoism as well as with phenomenological approach. Such meditative consciousness can be both empty and totally fulfilled, and the emptiness of the meditative consciousness itself is potentially overflowed. The author reviews different methods of meditative rituals popular Daoism and argues that their aim was similar – clear consciousness and unity of heart and mind. Both in Daoism and western phenomenology authentic consciousness considered as quiet, clear of any presuppositions or accidental elements.