2023 7th International Conference on Computer Applications in Electrical Engineering-Recent Advances
October 27, 2023
Katinder Kaur, P. Khandnor
Meditation is an age-old practice that continues to attract significant interest in the field of neuroscience due to its stress-reducing and therapeutic benefits. In line with this growing area of research, our study aims to contribute by identifying potential neural markers associated with meditation. To achieve this goal, we investigate various features extracted from the time domain...
October 19, 2023
David B. Gray
Abstract The fifth chapter focuses on transgressive rhetoric in the tantras, arguing that it created an obstacle to their dissemination and translation due to the concerns that this raised. It explores the ways in which this was addressed both by translators and by commentators. The former developed strategies to translate transgressive passages so as to mitigate their impact, while the latter...
October 19, 2023
David B. Gray
Abstract The second chapter surveys the contents of the Buddhist tantras. It begins with the opening background verse, which is an element that demonstrates continuity with the genre of Mahāyāna sutras, although it was taken in a new and transgressive direction of many of the tantras. It then explores both the languages in which the tantras were composed and the philosophical positions...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
October 16, 2023
Marc Applebaum
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Mindfulness practices adapted from Theravada Buddhism have become widespread among many in Western societies who seek stress reduction and greater present-centeredness. Less well-known is the mindfulness practice in Sufism–the mystical path of Islam–known as meditative remembrance ( dhikr). While mindfulness is often understood as a self-help technique, the aim of Buddhist and Sufi meditative...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Cloud Computing
October 10, 2023
Xiaofei Jia, Changle Zhou
Leyi is a set of physical and mental cultivation methods established by Professor Changle Zhou after many years of practice. It combines modern psychological adjustment and Chinese ancient Buddhist practice methods, including relaxation, breathing, meditation, koan, and cognitive regulation. Its purpose is to achieve the state of enlightenment (a high-level ideology in Buddhism). More than ten...
Oxford University Press eBooks
October 10, 2023
Arthur Versluis
Abstract There is a history of psychedelics and entheogens in twentieth- and twenty-first century in the context of neo-gnostic elements from contemporary popular authors and scholars including Christopher Bache, Jonathan Phillips, Erik Davis, and Daniel Pinchbeck. In particular the scholarly work of Christopher Partridge provides some context. Christopher Bache’s work also clearly has a...
Routledge eBooks
October 9, 2023
John Blofeld
Poverty of the tragic kind found, say, in India or Bangladesh demands vast-scale collective action and so does the terrifyingly rapid deterioration of the environment; but boredom and discontent in the midst of plenty are a problem for the individual and it is that the ancient mystical traditions may be looked to for an answer. Well, mysticism offers no broad remedies for modern ills. From the...
Routledge eBooks
October 9, 2023
John Blofeld
It is widely accepted that learning and the cultivation of mystical intuition do not go well together. Pietists who hold that scriptural study is the foundation of all goodness and scholars who maintain that learning is the road to wisdom, like those who expect salvation from good works, are generally not mystically inclined. Nevertheless, in China there have been Buddhist monks and laymen who...
Routledge eBooks
October 9, 2023
John Blofeld
In Buddhist circles in China and Tibet there are many stories current about a marvellous gem that, once located, fulfils its finder’s every wish. There is a religion beyond religions which leads directly to the grasping of the wish-fulfilling gem. For want of a better term, it may be called the mystic’s quest. For, whereas Christian and Moslem mystics have generally been looked upon askance by...
SCIREA Journal of Sociology
October 7, 2023
Jin Guo Zhang
The mind thoughts of Wang Yangming come from long-term moral and spiritual practices. After the knowledge and action are honed, they fall on the level of conscience. In the early years, Yangming paid close attention to the mind. With the help of the concentrated observation amendments of law in Buddhism, Yangming looked at the ideas that have been developed and not developed from the...