192 actas del ii congreso internacional de literatura mística Table 2 (continued) Themes and Meaning Units Evidence in Text Source (5) Unitive Experience Buddhist … Buddha means awakened, illuminated, or enlightened. Buswell, 2003; Harvey, 1990; Kohn, 2000; Strong, 2001; Thomas, 1994 Mindfulness includes control over the body and the mind; meditation cannot help a wo/man who lives a scattered lifestyle. Gunaratana, 2002; Harvey, 1990; Hawkins, 1999; Keown, 1992; 2000a; 2000b; Nyanaponika, 1971 The practice of mental concentration, the eighth Path, will lead ultimately through a succession of stages to the final goal of ‘spiritual fire’, which is nirvāna, ‘extinction’, ‘quenching’, or ‘blowing out’. Williams & Tribe, 2000; Zysk, 1991 Eastern Orthdox In [theosis] wo/man becomes divinized[;] [s]/he beholds and approaches the uncreated Light, which is achieved through a noetic vision of the Divine Being in the form of His uncreated energies. Cyprian, 1995; Vlachos, 1992; 1993; 1997 [The vision of the Tabor Light], is an expression of noesis, (i.e., insight, and is focused on the present or ‘now’, as opposed to the past or future; it is present-moment mindfulness). Chrysostomos, 2000a; 2000b; 2007; Lossky, 1944
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