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Explore June 23, 2021 Lars‐gunnar Lundh
The present paper argues that if the so-called mindfulness movement is to reach its full potential it needs to emancipate from its religious context and ally itself fully with psychological science. The argument that mindfulness meditation needs a religious context for ethical reasons is untenable. Although mindfulness skills may well be used for un-ethical purposes, this applies equally to...
Philosophies June 17, 2021 Cyril Costines, Tilmann Lhündrup Borghardt, Marc Wittmann 31 citations
A philosopher and a cognitive neuroscientist conversed with Buddhist lama Tilmann Lhündrup Borghardt (TLB) about the unresolved phenomenological concerns and logical questions surrounding “pure” consciousness or minimal phenomenal experience (MPE), a quasi-contentless, non-dual state whose phenomenology of “emptiness” is often described in terms of the phenomenal quality of luminosity that...
Religions June 1, 2021 Frances Garrett, Sophie Chase
Co-authored between a professor and student, this essay discusses how an experiential learning assignment of “deep listening” was integrated into an online course on histories of Buddhist meditation. Paired with a group art project, the work provided not only an opportunity to practice critical communication skills, but also a sense of connection and community, which is especially important...
Explore May 26, 2021 Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher
'Mindfulness' has become a mainstream component of American culture and a successful business worth more than 1 billion dollars. Born out of Buddhist contemplative traditions that reached the West in the mid-1960s, secular mindfulness programs have spread both geographically (to the US and Europe) and socially (to healthcare, academia, politics, the military, and finance). The diffusion of...
Walisongo: Jurnal Penelitian Sosial Keagamaan May 20, 2021 Sefa Bulut
As a field of study, psychology has been on the path of sustained evolution. From psychoanalysis to Logotherapy, we have come a long way. The advent of spirituality, positive thinking, and the renewed interest in human potential have led to the emergence of various sub-fields in psychology. From denying the role of religion and spirituality in the therapy setting to designing interventions...
Religions of South Asia May 20, 2021 Jackson Stephenson
Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience, by Yaroslav Komarovski. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 285pp., £86 (hb). ISBN: 9780190244958
May 11, 2021 Jens Schlieter 2 citations
The contribution will discuss the impact of American Theosophist Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (1878-1965) on the emerging "science of religion." Evans-Wentz first pursued Celtic studies, concluding in his The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Here, in line with Theosophical doctrines and Psychical Research, he claimed a "Fairyland" as "a supernormal state of consciousness into which men and women...
PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica April 1, 2021 Fábio Nogueira Pereira
At the turn of the twentieth century there is a growing interest in Eastern religions and philosophies among Western intellectuals. Some authors from this period and also contemporary ones point out that Buddhism is not characterized as a religion, nor a philosophy. Zen Buddhism presents itself as a methodology for training the mind in pursuit of personal development. In the middle of the last...
Ui sahak April 2021 Sooyoun Kim
This study focused its investigation on esoteric Buddhist treatment methods during Goryeo. In Goryeo, they published dharani scriptures related to illness. Beomseo-chongji-jip, a collection of dharanis, contains few dharanis for treatment. The publication of a dharani scripture was a precondition of dharani-based Buddhist prayers. There had been cases of treating illness through Buddhist...
The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching March 30, 2021 Gloria Chien
While Ignatian pedagogy is distinctive in Jesuit education, scholarly attention on its applications is scanty. This article demonstrates the relevance of the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP) to compassion cultivation through showing how it integrates into a Buddhist-inspired contemplation program, Cognitively-Based Compassion Training® (CBCT®). Using a case study of a CBCT® course at a...
International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharma Research March 29, 2021
Today, we are living in the era of developed science and technology in which human being has no utopia and generally human being now days, thinks logically and will not accept anything unless the results are beneficial, tangible, vivid and personal. In ancient times, ritual and magical practices were humanity's crucial forms of health care. Vipassana (Buddhist meditation) is one of the India's...
JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES March 25, 2021 Tairyū Ogawa
Concentrated meditation retreats have been conducted in Japanese Zen monasteries since the Middle Ages (1185–1600). The Zen retreats held during the Middle Ages, known as jōza 定坐, differed somewhat from the type of retreats held during the Edo period (1603–1868), known as sesshin 摂心, a form of concentrated meditation practice similar to present-day Zen retreats (still known as sesshin). The...
Religions March 21, 2021 Ngar-sze Lau
This paper examines how the teaching of embodied practices of transnational Buddhist meditation has been designated for healing depression explicitly in contemporary Chinese Buddhist communities with the influences of Buddhist modernism in Southeast Asia and globalization. Despite the revival of traditional Chan school meditation practices since the Open Policy, various transnational lay...
Religions March 13, 2021 Brentyn J. Ramm 6 citations
In this paper, I investigate the phenomenology of awakening in Chinese Zen Buddhism. In this tradition, to awaken is to ‘see your true nature’. In particular, the two aspects of awakening are: (1) seeing that the nature of one’s self or mind is empty or void and (2) an erasing of the usual (though merely apparent) boundary between subject and object. In the early Zen tradition, there are many...
Философская мысль March 1, 2021 Лапатин Вадим Альбертович
The subject of this research is the method of phenomenological reduction developed by E. Husserl. The article examines the difficulties faced by this method, as well as observes the reception of Husserl’s ideas by the adherents of phenomenology in the XX century. It is substantiated that the phenomenological reduction is unrealizable by theoretical means due to impossibility to comply in the...
The Oxford Handbook of Meditation February 10, 2021 David Brazier
Abstract This chapter explores the application of Buddhism as psychotherapy. Buddhism is primarily a religion or Dharma that has inspired the arts, social life, architecture, and foundational aspects of the cultures where it has become established. In considering it as psychotherapy, this chapter similarly applies principles and images springing from its religious root. Buddhism is also a...
Comparative Philosophy An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy January 29, 2021 Sean M. Smith 3 citations
Allow me to begin by expressing my gratitude to Karsten Struhl and the editors of Comparative Philosophy for the opportunity to engage with these ideas.This work is very close to my heart and I am always keen for the opportunity to work through the details in partnership with like-minded scholars.Struhl's (2020) paper gave me a lot to think about, and so for my reply I will divide my remarks...
arXiv Preprint Archive January 29, 2021 Daniela Calvetti, B. Johnson, Annalisa Pascarella et al. preprint
Meditation practices have been claimed to have a positive effect on the regulation of mood and emotion for quite some time by practitioners, and in recent times there has been a sustained effort to provide a more precise description of the changes induced by meditation on human brain. Longitudinal studies have reported morphological changes in cortical thickness and volume in selected brain...
Frontiers in Psychology January 28, 2021 Dylan Thomas Lott, Tenzin Yeshi, N. Norchung et al. 18 citations
Recent EEG studies on the early postmortem interval that suggest the persistence of electrophysiological coherence and connectivity in the brain of animals and humans reinforce the need for further investigation of the relationship between the brain’s activity and the dying process. Neuroscience is now in a position to empirically evaluate the extended process of dying and, more specifically,...
January 20, 2021 Chonnapha Punnanan
This Research is Quasi-Experimental Research of the Explanatory Sequential Research Design. The purposes of this research were Effects of Dharma Practices on Psychological Well-Being of the participants Mental Development and Create Intellectual Program of the Palangjit Dharma Jakrawan Institute (PDJ) Applying the principles of the Nine Keys Philosophy. The sample group was selected from 60...