Bushell William C
Anthropology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Aug;1172:348-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04960.x.
A "framework" is presented for understanding empirically confirmed and unconfirmed phenomena in the Indo-Tibetan meditation system, from an integrative perspective, and providing evidence that certain meditative practices enable meditators to realize the innate human potential to perceive light "at the limits imposed by quantum mechanics," on the level of individual photons. This is part of a larger Buddhist agenda to meditatitively develop perceptual/attentional capacities to achieve penetrating insight into the nature of phenomena. Such capacities may also allow advanced meditators to perceive changes in natural scenes that are "hidden" from persons with "normal" attentional capacities, according to research on "change blindness," and to enhance their visual system functioning akin to high-speed and time-lapse photography, in toto allowing for the perception, as well as sophisticated understanding, of the "moment to moment change or impermanence" universally characteristic of the phenomenal world but normally outside untrained attention and perception according to Buddhist doctrine.
本文从综合的视角提出了一个“框架”，用于理解印藏冥想体系中已被实证证实和未被证实的现象，并提供证据表明某些冥想练习能让冥想者在单个光子层面上，“在量子力学所施加的限制范围内”实现感知光的内在人类潜能。这是一个更大的佛教议程的一部分，即通过冥想培养感知/注意力能力，以实现对现象本质的深刻洞察。根据对“变化盲视”的研究，这种能力还可能使高级冥想者能够感知到具有“正常”注意力能力的人所“看不见”的自然场景变化，并增强其视觉系统功能，类似于高速和延时摄影，总体上能够感知并深入理解现象世界普遍具有的“刹那变化或无常”，而根据佛教教义，这种变化通常处于未经训练的注意力和感知之外。
