‘Insight’ or vipassanā meditation refers to meditative practices employed within Buddhist traditions. But following the secularization of vipassanā in recent decades – that is, its differentiation from Buddhism – orthodox Jewish Israeli meditators frame it as a religiously neutral, therapeutic technique centred on the mundane human body. They thus consider it as involving no forbidden ‘Eastern’ religious contents. Nevertheless, these ‘Jewish Vipassanā’ meditators also utilize insight meditation for improving their Jewish practice, characters, and ability to experience closeness to God; and some situate it within a national-religious historical narrative culminating in redemption. The secularization of vipassanā enables orthodox Jewish practitioners to engage with it in ways that are significant for them as observant Jews, and without continually being concerned over ‘idolatry’. Secularization therefore has important implications for people's ethical projects, or attempts to foster what they consider good. Examining these implications can both stimulate secular studies and contribute to anthropological research on ethics.

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世俗化及其伦理后果：正统的以色列犹太人圣化“世俗的”佛教冥想

“内观”或内观冥想是指佛教传统中采用的冥想练习。但随着近几十年来内观的世俗化——也就是说，它与佛教的区别——正统的犹太以色列冥想者将其定义为一种宗教中立的、以世俗人体为中心的治疗技术。因此，他们认为它不涉及禁止的“东方”宗教内容。尽管如此，这些“犹太内观”禅修者也利用内观禅修来改善他们的犹太修行、品格和体验亲近神的能力；有些人将其置于最终以救赎告终的民族宗教历史叙事中。内观的世俗化使正统的犹太从业者能够以对他们作为细心的犹太人来说很重要的方式参与其中，而不必一直担心“偶像崇拜”。因此，世俗化对人们的道德项目或培养他们认为好的东西的尝试具有重要意义。检查这些影响既可以刺激世俗研究，也可以促进人类学伦理学研究。