The Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology
August 31, 2018
Hyun-Ju Cho
1 citation
There has been an increase in the application of meditation to psychotherapy based on research showing that mindfulness meditation helped people improve their mental health and wellbeing as well as change their brain functions. Researchers in Korea have reported that meditation positively influenced clients with diverse psychological problems. However, a few researchers have warned us that...
National Journal of Research in Ayurved Science
August 23, 2018
Mahesh Kashiram Talekar, Rajesh S Kolarkar
Depression let’s talk- WHO is leading a one-year global campaign on depression. Depression comes under psychiatric disorders. According to WHO healthy person definition is health is complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Vipassana meditation technique is very useful for balancing of mind. Ä€nÄpÄnasati breathing technique...
Journal of MCU Peace Studies
August 16, 2018
Phramaha Surachai Jayabhivaddhano, Sawat Anothai, Somboon Boondo
The objectives of this research are as followings: 1) to study the process of wisdom development in western and Buddhist philosophies; 2) to study the Essence of Mind (or Original Mind) in Zen and Theravada Buddhist philosophies; 3) to study western and Buddhist hermeneutics as the tools of dissertation; 4) to apply Buddhist hermeneutics on the Essence of Mind in the process of wisdom...
Journal For Virtual Worlds Research
July 30, 2018
Kevin Healey
Using the grounded theory method (GTM), this article proposes an “integral” model for studying the development and use of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) technologies. Integral models seek holistic understanding by combining third-person, empirical perspectives with first-person, subjective experience. Here, the proposed model provides a comparative analysis of immersive virtual reality...
July 27, 2018
Henry M. Vyner
This chapter explains why and how this research on the healthy mind is being done with Tibetan lamas. It begins with a narrative account of a moment in the summer of 1994, when I was wondering alone through the Chang Tang—a virtually uninhabited and mountainous plateau in northern Tibet. One day, as I was trekking through the Chang Tang, a single lama on horseback materialized out of nowhere,...
July 27, 2018
Henry M. Vyner
Chapter 10 begins with a Zen legend that explains that the human mind has two modes of self-awareness. It then describes egoless self-awareness and establishes that two modes of self-awareness create and define the differences between the egoless and egocentric states of mind. Chapter 10 also explains that one way to understand the difference between these two modes of awareness is that they...
July 27, 2018
Henry M. Vyner
There is much that we do not know about the stream of consciousness. We have no idea of whether or not the people who painted animals on the walls of the caves at Lascaux seventeen thousand years ago had a stream of consciousness. Or if the poet who wrote the Gilgamesh had a stream of consciousness. Contemporary philosophers of mind allege that we cannot even tell if another human being has a...
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
July 26, 2018
Jeremiah Carey
4 citations
The concept of dispassion has been an important part of many different ethical traditions, and yet it has received very little direct attention from moral philosophers.In this paper, I try to give an account of the ethical ideal of dispassion, with a particular focus on Buddhism, Stoicism, and Eastern Christianity.I try to show that there is a common core shared between these otherwise very...
Neuropsychologia
July 21, 2018
Enrico Fucci, Oussama Abdoun, Anne Caclin et al.
58 citations
Non-dual meditation aims to undo maladaptive cognitive and affective patterns by recognizing their constructed and transient nature. We previously found high-amplitude spontaneous gamma (25-40 Hz) oscillatory activity during such practice. Nonetheless, it is unclear how this meditation state differs from other practices, in terms of perceptual information processing. Here, we hypothesized that...
July 17, 2018
Seiso Paul Cooper
This chapter explicates differences in style and intention of zazen – Zen sitting meditation – beginning with a discussion of the limits of the typical etymological definition of zazen as simply derivative of the Indian dhyana (meditation). Despite the fact that zazen holds a central position across various Zen sects, there are diverse descriptions regarding its form, function, goals, and...