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Buddhist Epistemology Applied to Learning AT: Essay

THE SEQUENCE OF COMING TO KNOW AN OBJECT Buddhist Epistemology Applied to Learning the Alexander Technique In this essay I will take the Buddhist epistemological 5-fold division of coming to know an object and explore its relation to coming to know the object of natural human co-ordination. The process of discovering this object was the work of F. M. Alexander. It stands in my mind as one of the outstanding discoveries of the 20th century, yet remains largely unrecognized precisely because the knowledge can only be understood in its full impact by a process of direct perception. So I think it is quite interesting to explore how Buddhist epistemology can be understood in an Alexander context. In this essay I will explore my own knowledge and experience, from my first lesson in 1969, to my experience today as a trainer of Alexander teachers in Japan. The Epistemological 5-fold division is as follows: 1. Wrong View 2. Doubt: towards wrong view, equivocal, towards correct view 3. Correctly