International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture
June 30, 2018
Christopher S. Queen
1 citation
Buddhist meditation, also known as mindfulness and vipassana, has been a hallmark of Buddhist revival in many parts of the world. Engaged Buddhists - those who see their practice as a collective response to the institutional causes of suffering and injustice in society - have generally regarded meditation as a foundation and a resource for their struggle. Recent criticisms of meditation have...
Religions
June 26, 2018
Teng-Kuan Ng
5 citations
This paper studies the ways that Walker, a short film by the Malaysian-Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-Liang, visualizes the relationship between Buddhism and modernity. Via detailed film analysis as well as attention to sources in premodern Buddhist traditions, this paper argues that its filmic performance of Zen walking meditation serves two functions: To present slowness and simplicity as...
Journal of Behavioral Addictions
June 7, 2018
William van Gordon, Edo Shonin, Sofiane Diouri et al.
Background: Ontological addiction theory (OAT) is a novel metaphysical model of psychopathology and posits that human beings are prone to forming implausible beliefs concerning the way they think they exist, and that these beliefs can become addictive leading to functional impairments and mental illness. The theoretical underpinnings of OAT derive from the Buddhist philosophical perspective...
May 8, 2018
Raul Moncayo
Sigmund Freud conceived of psychoanalytic practice as different from that of priests and pastoral or educational counsellors. The deadly aspect of mystical experience destroys identity in the sense that it destroys the illusory or imaginary notion of ego. Zen practice is commonly referred to as leading to an ego-death. Psychoanalysis, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in particular, contains a very...
La Trobe University
May 2, 2018
John Makeham
© 2018 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. The question of the origin of badness is a core problematic in New Confucian philosopher Xiong Shili's (1885-1968) Ming Xin Pian (Explaining the Mind; 1959), a work representative of his thought towards the end of his life. In this essay, I examine how Xiong uses the concepts of the nature (xing) and the mind (xin) to explain the origin...
May 1, 2018
Kendall Roper
1 citation
Post-modernism asserts that the world as we know it does not exist independently from the symbolic interpretations we formulate about it. This symbolic and ever unfolding interpretation of reality applies to our understanding of science as well as philosophy, to religion as well as art. In striving to describe religious experiences, various cultures have developed complex symbolic languages...
불교학보
March 31, 2018
Eun-su Cho
본 논문은 국제적 비파사나 명상 네트워크인 고엥카의 “비파사나 명상 센터”(Vipassana Meditation Center)의 운영 방식을 주목하여, 그 운영의 원칙 속에 녹아서 작동하는 초기불교의 이념을 분석해 보임으로써, 가르치는 법(法, Dharma)의 내용과 이 수행프로그램을 운영하는 방식 간에 존재하는 일관성이 이 단체를 세계적인 조직으로 성장하게 한 원동력이 되었음을 보이고자 한다. 이 프로그램은 정교한 체계와 광범한 조직을 가지고 있으며, 그 운영의 원칙은 프로그램의 내용과 상관성을 가지며 명실상부하게 이루어지고 있다. 열흘간의 수행프로그램을 통해 수련생들은 명상법과 불교의 가르침을 배우고 느끼며, 궁극적으로 프로그램 운영의 원칙이 불교의 담마(Dhamma)에 기반하고 있음을 체험한다....
Religions
March 22, 2018
Brooke Schedneck
Female non-Buddhists have been writing detailed descriptions of their personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreats since the 1960s. These memoirists relate to the English-speaking world their experience of the retreat process and self-transformations. Early memoirists traveled Asia in order to learn and practice vipassanā meditation. These memoirs are as much about the meditation...
March 18, 2018
Polgolle Kusaladhamma
Neuroscientists and genetics started a new era in human history. Neuroscience is a modern science and it developed after 1950. Scientific study of the body investigates how the messages in transit from the senses to the brain and make decisions and feelings. The neuron system of the body is the coordinator of the transiting information in the body. Neurons are cells specialized for...
DEStech Transactions on Social Science Education and Human Science
March 6, 2018
Qing Ming
The key concepts of Buddhism’s traditional psychology are samatha and vipassana, which incorporates, in some form and to some degree, all Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism’s philosophical and psychological major ideas. Therefore, this paper will use hermeneutics as its research method, take the study of the concept of samatha and vipassana in classical Pali texts and...
Философи, шашин судлал
February 9, 2018
Ишеков Н. С.
Key words: dhyāna, samādhi, the King of Concentration (Samādhirāja) Sūtra, the disturbing emotions (kleśa), single-pointed concentration, the meditative stages of Buddhist path, the nine mental states, Samatha meditation, “Calm abiding meditation, mindfulness on, resultant liberation (nirvāṇa); selflessness of phenomena,
February 1, 2018
Stephanie Kaza
3 citations
The worlds of religious naturalism and Zen Buddhism are wide-ranging geographies, offering diverse journeys to wisdom and insight. This chapter explores the insights of Zen Buddhism relevant to religious naturalism, particularly as developed in recent Western scholarship focused on thirteenth-century Japanese Zen philosopher Eihei Dogen. Dogen&s;s form of Zen stressed direct awakening through...
The Definition, Practice, and Psychology of Vedanā
January 2, 2018
Robert E. Buswell
Abstract The technique of ‘examining meditative topics’ (Chinese kanhua Chan) is one of the emblematic practices of the ‘Zen’ traditions of East Asia. (We in the West know this technique better as kōan practice, after its later Japanese analogues.) An emblematic feature of this technique is the generation of a sense of inquiry, or more literally a ‘feeling’ or ‘sensation of doubt’. This inquiry...
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture
2018
Michał Sokołowski
Butoh is, created in the late 1950s, a Japanese avant-garde dance theatre. Its main representatives were Hijikata Tatsumi (1928–1986) and Åno Kazuo (1906–2010). Hijikata criticized the rigid division into theater and dance, denied any form of strict codification of dance, and also rejected the concepts of technique and methods. Also for Åno rigid frame of existing dance genres turned out to...
TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World
2018
Ken Martin
1 citation
In Alejandro Jodorowsky’s autobiographical story El maestro y las magas (2006), the eclectic and esoteric artist spends a significant amount of time recounting his experience under the tutelage of Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Ejo Takata in Mexico City in the latter part of the 1960s into the early 1970s. Their relationship as master and disciple would be an important, if not foundational, part of...
International Journal of Neurology Research
2018
博之 吉留, Masataka Sunagawa, Toku Takahashi
45 citations
A number of modern researchers have studied the relationship between religion and health. In every religious tradition, virtues such as self-sacrifice, altruism, and appreciation have been considered quite essential. Arigato-Zen (AZ) (Gratitude Zen) is an easy and simple voice-meditation developed by Dr. Machida, which motivates the feeling of altruism and appreciation. By performing AZ, one is...
Digital Collections of Colorado
2018
Jack Hamblin, Matthew Mackenzie, Katie McShane et al.
1 citation
In Chapter 1, I describe necessary dimensions of Buddhist ethics. I comment on and argue for the inclusion of the four noble truths, meditation, the four immeasurable virtues, and regulating emotion. In Chapter 2, I establish the viability of virtue ethics. I review virtue ethics from an historical perspective, look at and answer a critique of the virtues, and distinguish my version of virtue...
NRCT Data Center
2018
Sukhumpong Channuwong
The purposes of this research were to present an integration of Buddhist teachings in stress management, and to form a model of Buddhist teachings in stress management. The research results show that stress is one state of suffering, which is caused by an accumulation of many problems in human life. Stress occurs when a person facing some problems feels that they are beyond his or her...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2018
Pamela Ayo Yetunde
1 citation
Virtually every published academic study on American Buddhist practitioners excludes the culturally specific experiences of African American Buddhist practitioners. In the Insight Meditation Community (initially created by white Jewish American practitioners who studied and practiced in Southeast Asia before bringing the Theravada-influenced practices and teachings to the United States), there...
Journal of Jewish identities
2018
Emily Sigalow
Jewish Buddhists, Gender, and Social Scientific Perspectives Emily Sigalow (bio) In the cool, drizzling rain, I mill around outside the dining hall at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, a vipassana (insight) meditation center in Woodacre, California. The contemporary-style pagodas set in the green hillside give Spirit Rock the feel of a rustic Northern California resort infused with an Asian...