Practices of consciousness transformations in Buddhist culture: deautomatisation and desemantisation

Abstract

In Buddhism it is impossible to attain Nirva^-na without overcoming conceptual obstacles made by the unenlightened consciousness itself. For this purpose adept puts his own psychic processes into the focus of his active attention (deautomatization). He gets rid of sign systems, by which he described his own personality before entering onto the path to enlightenment, and begins to create the new self-description in the terms of Buddhist philosophy (reseman-tization)