Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 6, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
Psychological literatures on coping, emotion regulation, and contemplative practice have generated a large inventory of techniques for responding to distress, but comparatively little theory about how a person should choose among them. The dominant question has been which technique works; the neglected question is which response is appropriate to this disturbance, at this stage of its...
Missiology: An International Review
August 5, 2026
L. Nguyen
This paper examines the Vietnamese expression “ Ông Trời có mắt ” (“Heaven has eyes”) as a window into the moral, theological, and symbolic worlds of Vietnamese religiosity. While often interpreted as a proverb of cosmic surveillance, the saying points to a deeper and more relational understanding of Ông Trời , the transcendent figure who sees, judges, and cares for human life. Across Vietnam’s...
Multi-Disciplinary Explorations: The Kasthamandap College Journal
August 5, 2026
H. Sapkota
This conceptual paper discusses the adaptation of techniques used in the contemplation traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism for application in English as a foreign language, focusing on mindful reading. Drawing on the Bhagavad Gita’s principles of anāsakta karma (detached action) and samatva (equanimity), together with Buddhist teachings of Sati (mindfulness) and Vipassanā (insight meditation),...
August 3, 2026
David Stephen Calonne
Abstract This chapter explores the ways Sonny Rollins embarked on a lifelong quest for the sacred through his studies of Rosicrucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Rollins formed close friendships with Thelonious Monk and Don Cherry and the chapter explores these friendships as well. Rollins—like several jazz musicians—struggled with drug addiction, and the chapter discusses his recovery as well...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 2, 2026
Julius Barreto-Lins
preprint
Contemporary mindfulness-based interventions have established a substantial evidence base for the training of attention and the reduction of reactivity. Their design — originally inspired by Buddhist contemplative practice and then deliberately secularized for delivery within medicine and psychology — brackets culture, faith, and personhood by design, and is explicit about doing so. This paper...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 1, 2026
Gerd Leidig
preprint
Contemplative neuroscience has differentiated focused-attention, open-monitoring, constructive, and deconstructive practices, yet it still lacks an integrated account of how embodied events become self-defining, how the organization underlying them becomes experientially accessible, and how another mode of situated participation becomes possible. This article introduces Meditation at the Edge...
IBRO Neuroscience Reports
August 1, 2026
Remko Van Lutterveld, Thomas Cahaly, Lukas van Herk et al.
Advanced meditation includes meditative endpoints that are outcomes of meditation practice and occur with time and mastery of meditation. The “cessation” event (c.f. nirodha in Theravada Buddhism) is a meditative endpoint characterized by a loss of consciousness followed by a sense of mental reset and deep clarity. In general, organization of brain activity exists along a “criticality”...
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology
July 28, 2026
Relin Denayu Ekawati, Ni Kadek Surpi, Aditya Ansu
Background: Psychological capital, comprising hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resilience, provides a useful framework for understanding how individuals remain purposeful during crises. However, its performance-oriented formulation insufficiently addresses the ethical, metaphysical, and spiritual foundations of human strength. This study examines Arjuna’s transformation from psychological and...
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology
July 27, 2026
I. M. D. Saputra, H. Purwanto, Amarjiva Lochan
Background: This article examines Sanghyang Siksa Kandang Karesian (SSSK) as an Old Sundanese ethical text that explores the relationship between life, death, and moral order. Unlike eschatological understandings that emphasize only the doctrine of the afterlife, this article interprets the eschatological consciousness in the manuscript as a moral framework that operates through teachings on...
International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews
July 25, 2026
Santosh Kumar Nayak
This article offers a comprehensive philosophical and critical reading of poet and the great Odia lyricist Dr. Panchanan Nayak's Bird (Whispers of the Wind, Melodies of the Soul), translated into English by Dr. Sonali Sahu. Rather than treating the collection merely as a volume of lyrical poems, the present study argues that Bird constitutes a sustained philosophical meditation on existence,...