Frontiers in Psychology
June 30, 2022
Traditional spiritual literature contains rich anecdotal reports of spontaneously arising experiences occurring during meditation practice, but formal investigation of such experiences is limited. Previous work has sometimes related spontaneous experiences to the Indian traditional contemplative concept of kundalini. Historically, descriptions of kundalini come out of Tantric schools of Yoga,...
The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence
June 30, 2022
Myung-Hai Lee
In modern society, Buddhist doctrines and Western psychological counselling are applied in numerous ways for psychological healing. As western psychological counselling programs are developed based on Buddhist doctrine, this study aims to compare and examine the Mindful Self Compassion(MSC) meditation program designed by Dr Christopher K. Germer and Dr Kristin Neff with the practice of 5 stages...
International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture
June 30, 2022
J. Attwood
3 citations
Received traditions of Prajñāpāramitā interpretation embrace a hermeneutic in which truth and falsehood are one and the same. This philosophy has deep roots in Indian Buddhism, and it gained prominence in Europe and her colonies through the writings of D. T. Suzuki and his devotee, Edward Conze. It is relatively easy to show that the “contradictions” that form the main axiom of their reading...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
June 27, 2022
Wazir C Vasudeva
2 citations
Meditation and definitionsSitting alone in one of the yogic postures, shutting the mind to the external world and diverting all its powers inside with concentration on Trikuti (space between two eye-brows), eyes closed, breathing slowly through both nostrils and getting absorbed in the Absolute until the knower, the known, and the knowing become one in the enlightenment.This practice offers...
Advancing Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Social Regulation
June 24, 2022
The historic roots of contemplative practice can be traced back to traditions in Buddhism, Confucianism, Aristotelian thought, and Christianity, with the most common contemplative practices including breathing meditation, quiet sitting, prayer, tai-chi, qigong, and yoga. Contemplative practices in contemporary times include more activities than traditionally conceptualized, including meditative...
Religions
June 23, 2022
John Michael Chase
1 citation
Following insights by Pierre Hadot, I suggest that although explicit discussions of practices of breath control and other psychosomatic techniques of contemplative attention management are conspicuously absent in early Greek thought, there are some signs that analogous practices did exist, perhaps as early as Socrates. The combined evidence of Aristophanes and Plato suggests that Socrates may...
Turkic Studies Journal
June 22, 2022
Burbar Sukru
1 citation
Shamanism is a system composed of various elements of culture and belief,created by people to understand life and come to grips with what is happeningaround them. It has an elaborate structure in terms of existing in well-roundedcommunities. It has various features that have different aspects compared tothe different times and conditions of the society. It also adopts local beliefsand the...
JMIR Formative Research
June 9, 2022
Sarah Lynn, Julia C. Basso
Background Mindfulness and meditation have a rich historical tradition, and a growing scientific base of evidence supports their use in creating positive psychological and neuroplastic changes for practitioners. Although meditation can be taught in various ways, the scientific community has yet to systematically study the impact of different types of meditation on neuropsychological outcomes,...
Mindfulness
June 1, 2022
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Abstract: Various dimensions of the cultivation of mindfulness in its early Buddhist historical setting can be better appreciated in the light of their doctrinal background. One aspect of this doctrinal background is the ancient Indian tetralemma, which differs from the Aristotelian logic that has informed much of Western thought. The tetralemma proposes that, in addition to affirmation and...
arXiv (Cornell University)
May 27, 2022
Aapo Hyvärinen
3 citations
preprint
This book uses the modern theory of artificial intelligence (AI) to understand human suffering or mental pain. Both humans and sophisticated AI agents process information about the world in order to achieve goals and obtain rewards, which is why AI can be used as a model of the human brain and mind. This book intends to make the theory accessible to a relatively general audience, requiring only...