De-mystification of Insight Meditation
Concurrent Session B1 / Saturday.2008.Aug.9 / 8:30 AM / Mudd 103
Joseph Cheah, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT: jpcheah@aol.com
This paper argues that some of the adaptations of vipassana meditation practices to the American context have been racially rearticulated by many white Buddhists and sympathizers in specific but deliberately chosen forms that help preserve the racial ideology of white supremacy.