Religions
April 28, 2022
Jing Lin, Yishin Khoo
12 citations
The biggest crisis that we are in nowadays is existential, which is the state of not knowing our true natures or our true selves; hence, we suffer from deep anxiety and we fail to find safety and a way to ground ourselves. In this article, we share our practical experiences of encountering and practicing the teachings of two important Buddhist scriptures: the Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra....
Journal of the College of Community Physicians
April 27, 2022
Wasantha Gunathunga, Oshadi Jayakody, Larrissa Bartlett et al.
Abstract Background and objectives Meditation holds potential for reducing occupation related stress. However, the current evidence base is largely limited to studies from the western countries with insufficient assessment of performance outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine the differences in the levels of mental well-being and depression between regularly meditating and...
April 14, 2022
Marcin Fabjański
Respect for nature is an initial condition to strengthen our relationship with it. When this is done, our metaphysical perception changes, as well as our moral attitude: we see ourselves as co-dependent with the process of life. This, in turn, results in the discovery of the same intelligence acting in the environment and within us. This perspective can be called onto-ethical, as it transforms...
Digital Archive @ GSU
April 14, 2022
Cheryl L. Garn
Mindfulness, a set of techniques for engaging with stimuli in the present-moment environment, has recently received considerable attention in the literature. Mindfulness is drawn from Eastern, Buddhist traditions and has been integrated into contemporary psychology, in part, as a technique for improving the ability to respond skillfully to emotionally distressing stimuli and processes (Bishop,...
Terapia psicológica
April 1, 2022
Ana María Ruiz-Ruano-García, Matilde Sáez-García, Francisco José Moya‐Faz et al.
2 citations
Background: Mindfulness is getting more and more attention from psychological intervention contexts, but also from educational and organizational settings.As a consequence, there also is a growing need for tools to measure mindfulness.Objective: The aim of this work is to present the Spanish adaptation psychometric properties of the short version Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI), a test...
Psychological Research
April 1, 2022
Larissa Lusnig, Ralph Radach, Markus J. Hofmann
AbstractThis work represents one of the first attempts to examine the effects of meditation on the processing of written single words. In the present longitudinal study, participants conducted a lexical decision task and rated the affective valence of nouns before and after a 7-week class in mindfulness meditation, loving-kindness meditation, or a control intervention. Both meditation groups...
International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
March 21, 2022
Dr. Kalo Sona Roy
In India the philosophers, except the Madhyamika Buddhists and Jayarasi Bhatta, maintain that determination of an object depends on a pramana, a source of cognition. Similarly, pramana depends on prameya padhartha. In the present paper I will deal with the relationship between epistemology and metaphysics from the Advaita point of view. According to Advaita Vedanta, Brahman is the only highest...
Routledge eBooks
March 18, 2022
Darin Pradittatsanee
1 citation
This chapter presents contemplative pedagogies developed in a course on “Environmental Literature” for Thai undergraduates. With course objectives aimed at introducing ecocriticism and fostering ecological conscience, this course interweaves contemplative practices with discussion of literary texts. Informed by the Buddhist notions of dependent origination (paticcasamppāda), which Thich Nhat...
March 14, 2022
Christopher W. Gowans
2 citations
This chapter calls into question a common view about the purpose of Buddhist meditation and offers an alternative interpretation. It is often supposed that a primary purpose of Buddhist meditation is to provide experiential knowledge that there is no self. This is typically taken to mean that some form of insight meditation (vipassanā), such as mindfulness, is a source of knowledge of the...
March 14, 2022
Charu Thapliyal
In this chapter, two distinct Indian philosophical traditions are compared – one Hindu, the other Buddhist – to support the conclusion that meditation is essential to both philosophies, as two separate but similar traditions that evidence the overall premise of this Handbook – that meditation is a valid element of philosophy. The chapter begins with a discussion of the four stages of...