Although the credit for developing mysticism as a branch of study goes to the Western scholars, it has its earliest roots in Eastern religious traditions, particularly the Upanishads. Because of the diffused nature of mysticism, it has been an arduous task even for the philosophers to define it in precise terms. Yet, for working purpose, mysticism has long been understood less as a doctrine...
Abstract As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly sophisticated in engaging with complex philosophical concepts, a fundamental challenge emerges between technological accessibility of profound nondualist instructions and explanations on one hand and contemplative transformation in nondualist inquiry on the other. Developing nondualist understanding presents unique...
This paper examines the philosophical and ethical significance of “forgetting” in Dōgen’s thought. It argues that the deepest form of forgetting—“forgetting oneself”—is not a psychological loss but a transformative practice through which a self-centered mode of existence is relinquished, allowing access to a multi-dimensional world in which beings appear across different ontological and...
This paper sheds light on the interactive process in which religious practitioners work to achieve states that appear to contradict individual agency. Drawing on ethnographic studies of Buddhist meditation retreats and Torah study in a Haredi yeshiva, we track the delicate balance between ‘doing religion’ (active engagement) and ‘being done by religion" (experiencing religious forces as taking...
Antecedentes: Las prácticas de meditación sostenidas o intensivas del budismo tibetano constituyen un sistema riguroso de entrenamiento mental y una sofisticada "psicología operativa". Si bien la evidencia empírica sugiere su capacidad para inducir transformaciones beneficiosas en procesos psicológicos y en el cerebro, no había sido sintetizada de manera integral y crítica. Objetivo: Analizar...
Religious traditions across cultures are structured around conceptual frameworks that articulate ultimate reality and prescribe practices by which practitioners orient themselves toward it. While these frameworks are indispensable for religious formation, this paper argues that they possess an internal limit: when fully enacted, they reach a point at which conceptual mediation ceases to...
Quantum medicine proposes that healing and health are not merely biochemical phenomena, but emergent properties of consciousness structured through nested informational layers. This paper introduces a Five-Body Model of Consciousness—Bliss Body, Supramental Body, Mental Body, Vital Body, and Physical Body—each representing progressively denser expressions of quantum information into biological...
The exploration of the ethnic differences in the ontological beauty of shamanic music within the context of postmodernism is focused on in this thesis, which will be achieved through an analysis of the musical object forms and their corresponding associated elements and symbolic contexts. Although the concepts of shamanic music in Korea and China are both categorized as religious, it is...
Penelitian ini menyajikan tinjauan literatur sistematis terhadap konsep karuṇā (belas kasih) dan metta (cinta kasih) dalam literatur akademik psikologi kontemporer dan filsafat Buddhis, dengan fokus pada perannya sebagai fondasi psikologi etis. Kajian mencakup studi empiris dan teoritis mengenai meditasi loving-kindness dan compassion dalam konteks psikoterapi, dampak psikologisnya terhadap...
This paper argues that artificial intelligence and human cognition develop in opposite directions. Humans start with embodied experience (living in the world) and gradually develop the ability to recognize patterns and make predictions. AI systems do the reverse: they start by recognizing patterns in data but lack the embodied continuity that grounds human understanding. Drawing on Buddhist...