Buddhism as the Deconstruction of Meaning
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| contents | <p dir="ltr">Version 1: 日本語, Version 2: ENGLISH<br><br>This paper reinterprets early Buddhism as a practice for dismantling meaning-making itself. Rather than a metaphysical system describing reality, Buddhism is read as an intervention into the process by which human beings endow experience with meaning, institutionalize it as religious order, and thereby render suffering and injustice “natural” and “legitimate.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Reexamining key Buddhist concepts—Dhamma, ignorance (avijjā), right view (sammā-diṭṭhi), grasping (upādāna), observation (vipassanā), the Noble Truth of suffering, and the Three Marks—this study shows that they function not as components of a worldview but as practical devices that interrupt the hardening of meaning into dogma. In particular, the Three Marks (sabbe saṅkhārā aniccā; sabbe saṅkhārā dukkhā; sabbe dhammā anattā) are reinterpreted as an internal critique of the Brahmanical linkage between dharma (order) and ātman (essential self), rather than as ontological claims.</p> <p dir="ltr">On this reading, Buddhism does not replace one worldview with another. It intervenes at the moment when interpretation becomes “truth,” order becomes “world,” and roles become “self.” Buddhism thus emerges as a practice that continuously suspends the transformation of meaning into unquestionable reality and the justification of suffering that follows from it.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">本論文は、初期仏教を「意味付けの解体」として再解釈する。仏教を世界の構造を説明する形而上学体系としてではなく、人間が経験に意味を与え、その意味が宗教的秩序として制度化され、苦しみや不正が「当然のもの」「正当なもの」として承認されていく、その構造への介入として読み直す。<br>本稿では、ダンマ、無明、正見、取、観、苦諦、三相といった仏教の中核概念を、世界観の構成要素ではなく、意味がドグマへと硬化する過程を可視化し、それを中断する実践的装置として再定義する。とりわけ三相 (sabbe saṅkhārā aniccā; sabbe saṅkhārā dukkhā; sabbe dhammā anattā) を、存在論的命題ではなく、バラモン教における〈ダルマ=秩序〉と〈アートマン=本質〉の結合を切断する批判的言語として再読する。<br>この読みのもとで、仏教は「正しい世界観」を与える宗教ではない。それは、解釈が「真理」へと変質し、秩序が「世界」となり、役割が「自己」として固着する、その瞬間に介入し続ける実践として立ち上がる。</p> <p>This paper is also available on Jxiv (Japan Science and Technology Agency preprint server).</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Buddhism as the Deconstruction of Meaning Naito, Ray buddhism Mean Making Dhamma Suffering Three Marks Deconstruction of Religion <p dir="ltr">Version 1: 日本語, Version 2: ENGLISH<br><br>This paper reinterprets early Buddhism as a practice for dismantling meaning-making itself. Rather than a metaphysical system describing reality, Buddhism is read as an intervention into the process by which human beings endow experience with meaning, institutionalize it as religious order, and thereby render suffering and injustice “natural” and “legitimate.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Reexamining key Buddhist concepts—Dhamma, ignorance (avijjā), right view (sammā-diṭṭhi), grasping (upādāna), observation (vipassanā), the Noble Truth of suffering, and the Three Marks—this study shows that they function not as components of a worldview but as practical devices that interrupt the hardening of meaning into dogma. In particular, the Three Marks (sabbe saṅkhārā aniccā; sabbe saṅkhārā dukkhā; sabbe dhammā anattā) are reinterpreted as an internal critique of the Brahmanical linkage between dharma (order) and ātman (essential self), rather than as ontological claims.</p> <p dir="ltr">On this reading, Buddhism does not replace one worldview with another. It intervenes at the moment when interpretation becomes “truth,” order becomes “world,” and roles become “self.” Buddhism thus emerges as a practice that continuously suspends the transformation of meaning into unquestionable reality and the justification of suffering that follows from it.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">本論文は、初期仏教を「意味付けの解体」として再解釈する。仏教を世界の構造を説明する形而上学体系としてではなく、人間が経験に意味を与え、その意味が宗教的秩序として制度化され、苦しみや不正が「当然のもの」「正当なもの」として承認されていく、その構造への介入として読み直す。<br>本稿では、ダンマ、無明、正見、取、観、苦諦、三相といった仏教の中核概念を、世界観の構成要素ではなく、意味がドグマへと硬化する過程を可視化し、それを中断する実践的装置として再定義する。とりわけ三相 (sabbe saṅkhārā aniccā; sabbe saṅkhārā dukkhā; sabbe dhammā anattā) を、存在論的命題ではなく、バラモン教における〈ダルマ=秩序〉と〈アートマン=本質〉の結合を切断する批判的言語として再読する。<br>この読みのもとで、仏教は「正しい世界観」を与える宗教ではない。それは、解釈が「真理」へと変質し、秩序が「世界」となり、役割が「自己」として固着する、その瞬間に介入し続ける実践として立ち上がる。</p> <p>This paper is also available on Jxiv (Japan Science and Technology Agency preprint server).</p> |
| title | Buddhism as the Deconstruction of Meaning |
| topic | buddhism Mean Making Dhamma Suffering Three Marks Deconstruction of Religion |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18363062 |