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Living Skillfully January 11, 2022 Dale S. Wright 1 citation
Abstract This chapter describes the Buddhist practice of meditation as it appears in the early Mahayana context of the Vimalakīrti Sūtra. It stresses mindfulness as a state of mind cultivated in the midst of ordinary life activity. Rather than demanding the abandonment of the passions and emotional sensitivity, it encourages bodhisattvas to cultivate emotion as one essential element of life....
Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2022 Doug Oman, Jill E Bormann
Mindfulness is sometimes misunderstood as solely a Buddhist or secular practice. This chapter offers a toolkit for enhanced sensitivity and flexibility toward patients and populations of diverse spiritual and religious orientations and backgrounds. It explains a set of eight interrelated practices known as Passage Meditation (PM), and a subset known as the Mantram Repetition Program (MRP), both...
Philosophy International Journal 2022 Chetana Arun 2 citations
Yoga' is popular in contemporary world and is colloquially interpreted as a method of practicing different postures for maintaining core strength, good physical health with flexibility of one's body.It is a Sanskrit non-translatable and this monograph is an attempt to describe about Yoga and its meaning as per the supreme lord Srikrishna's teachings in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita (SBG).SBG is...
Transpersonal Psychology Review 2022 Elliot Cohen
Editor’s note: this article is a summary of the Keynote at the Section Annual Conference Transpersonal Activism on 12 September 2021.Despite its designation as the ‘Fourth Force,’ Transpersonal Psychology often occupies a peripheral and precarious place within mainstream Psychological approaches. Its historic focus on mystical/spiritual and non-ordinary states of consciousness, coupled with its...
Frontiers in Psychology 2022 Chao Liu, Hao Chen, Fang Zhou et al.
Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) was first practiced by Buddhists and then developed by clinical psychologist. Previous studies on LKM have mainly focused on the impact of real person-guided meditation on depression, anxiety, and other negative psychology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this study explored the effect and mechanism of media-guided LKM on the improvement of social presence,...
Voprosy Filosofii 2022 S. Burmistrov
Fundamental difference between Buddhist Mahāyāna school of Madhyamaka and Brāhmaṇic school of Advaita Vedānta in interpretation of ontology of time is analyzed on the basis of Nāgārjuna’s (2–3rd cc.) treatise Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā, Candrakīrti’s (7th c.) commentary Prasannapadā, Vasubandhu’s (4th c.) treatise Abhidharmakośa, Asaṅga’s (4th c.) Abhidharma-samuccaya, Śaṃkara’s (9th c.) commentary...
Current Research in Neurobiology 2022 Maria Kozhevnikov, Alina Veronika Irene Strasser, Elizabeth Mcdougal et al. 13 citations
Here we report meditative techniques, which modulate attentional control by arousal-driven influences and not by monitoring continuous thought processes as during mindfulness-related practices. We focus on Vajrayana (Tantric Buddhism) practices, during which a sequence of generation (self-visualization as a deity - Yidam) or completion with sign (inner heat -Tummo) stages necessarily precedes...
Journal of Applied Consciousness Studies 2022 Vinod D. Deshmukh 4 citations
This review article is about the spontaneous dawn of the transparent mind and the peaceful self. The article starts with my direct observations as documented in my recent journal entries. As a neurologist, I ask myself, “how can I understand and explain these experiences in terms of modern neuroscience?” We as human beings have been asking such fundamental questions for thousands of years. The...
Frontiers in Psychology 2022 Sucharit Katyal 16 citations
According to many first-person accounts, consciousness comprises a subject-object structure involving a mental action or attitude starting from the "subjective pole" upon an object of experience. In recent years, many paradigms have been developed to manipulate and empirically investigate the object of consciousness. However, well-controlled investigation of subjective aspects of consciousness...
Social Economics December 31, 2021 Aleksandr Zhmai
The problems associated with modern management activities (stress, self-awareness, etc.), in particular their impact on the efficiency of employees, are considered. We suggested the use of meditation and mindfulness practices as an effective means of overcoming these factors. A historical retrospective of the origin and spread of meditation in the countries of the Ancient East (India, China,...