The Role of Mindfulness inKairos

Rhetoric Review Jan 2016

The Role of Mindfulness inKairos

Alexandria Peary Salem State University

Abstract

The natural inclination of writers is toward mindlessness or inattention to the present moment despite the benefits understanding the present can bring to writing. Although temporal consciousness is apparent in notions of writing as a process or of writing as situated in a rhetorical context, these ideas largely overlook the present. Buddhist Mindfulness can help with the development of kairotic or present-moment specific practice by including impermanence in the rhetorical context, by emphasizing real time in composing, and by providing access to intrapersonal rhetoric. Increased understanding of the temporal factors of writing calls for an Eastern-mind progymnasmata in rhetorical praxis.

Journal: Rhetoric Review
Published: 2016-01-02
DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2016.1107825
Open Access: Closed
Topics: argument

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