Buddhist Studies Review
December 31, 2018
Rupert Gethin
1 citation
Over the last fifty years the study of mysticism has been shaped by the debate between ‘perennialists’, who claim that mystical experiences are the same across different cultures, and ‘constructivists’, who claim that mystical experiences are shaped by, and hence specific to, particular religious traditions. The constructivist view is associated with the ‘discursive turn’ that has dominated the...
Mindfulness
November 27, 2018
Çimen Ekici, Gülcan Garip, William van Gordon
33 citations
Research into the effects and mechanisms of mindfulness training draws predominantly on quantitative research. There is a lack of understanding about the subjective experiences of experienced mindfulness meditators, which may provide additional insights into the effects, processes and context of mindfulness training. This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of a novel group of...
November 12, 2018
Gunes Sevinc, Sara W. Lazar
8 citations
Mindfulness meditation has been primarily studied within the context of individual’s psychological well being and/or in relation to it’s potential to enhance cognitive skills such as attention and working memory. However, in Buddhism, mindfulness is used as a tool to cultivate wholesome actions, and as a means to promote virtuous, prosocial qualities. In this article, we postulate that...
Current Opinion in Psychology
October 9, 2018
Martine Batchelor
This essay explores the relevance of the practice of mindfulness of feeling tones as a useful framework for research. First it presents three common types of feeling tones: pleasant/unpleasant and neutral. Then it looks at the matrix in which they could be usefully considered for research, that is the nāma factors (contact, feeling tone, perception, attention and intention). It explains that...
Current Opinion in Psychology
October 9, 2018
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Research on Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) is hampered by semantic ambiguity surrounding the term 'mindfulness'. Understanding the core quality involved in such research could be improved by adding historical depth to definitions of mindfulness, based on more detailed information on mindfulness from text-historical and doctrinal sources in the Buddhist traditions. Particular applications...
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
July 19, 2018
Oscar R. Gómez
Varios estudios clínicos muestran cómo los ejercicios de las tradiciones védicas, como el yoga, o budistas theravada o mahayana así como las prácticas tántricas tienen un impacto psicobiológico significativo. Este estudio busca el correlato neurofisiológico de las prácticas llamadas meditaciones tántricas y no-tántricas mediante una revisión sistemática cualitativa de los datos recolectados....
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
July 19, 2018
Oscar R. Gómez
Varios estudios clínicos muestran cómo las prácticas tántricas y los ejercicios de las tradiciones védicas -como el yoga- o budistas theravada o mahayana tienen un impacto psicobiológico significativo. Este estudio compara el correlato neurofisiológico de las prácticas llamadas meditaciones tántricas y no-tántricas mediante una revisión sistemática cualitativa de los datos recolectados. Se...
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...
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...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2018
Peter Tyler
2 citations
The article explores the practice of oracin mental in the Iberian schools of the sixteenth century "Golden Age," concentrating on the works of two authors: the Exercitatorio de la vida spiritual / Exercitatorium vite spiritualis of Garca Jimnez de Cisneros (1455-1510), abbot of Montserrat from 1493 to 1510 and El Libro de la Vida of St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), reformer and first prioress...