Contemporary Buddhism
January 2, 2018
Paul R. Fleischman
1 citation
Vipassana meditation in the tradition of S.N. Goenka is based upon neutral, non-judgemental, non-reactive awareness of the arising and passing of body sensations. This focus for meditation has two advantages. First, it is a practical focus that most people find they can work with, and that derives from a historical connection to the Buddha’s words. Second, this meditative focus puts the...
SSRN Electronic Journal
2018
Kitti Kittisaro
preprint
Not having greed, hatred and delusion is living a life with the real happiness. Unwholesome or greed, hatred and delusion, destroys the happiness in life. To relieve the unwholesome roots is significant. Those who cannot relieve the unwholesome roots have to live stressful and sorrowful, and cannot find the find the way to meet the bright side of life. The practitioners in Satipatthana...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
2018
David I. Dubrovsky
1 citation
The global crisis of terrestrial civilization is steadily increasing. A necessary condition for overcoming it is the change in mass consciousness, such negative qualities as irrepressible consumerism, aggressiveness, excessive egoism. As the Dalai Lama emphasizes: “We badly need a fundamental change in human consciousness”. According to him, science is of great importance in solving this...
Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição
2018
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
1 citation
During meditation, consciousness/awareness is usually enhanced because of higher attention and concentration, which inter-dependently co-arise thru appropriate interactions between neural signals. Nāgārjuna rejects ‘inherent existence’ or ‘essence’ in favor of co-dependent origination (Pratītyasamutpāda), and that is also why he rejects causality; the entities that lack inherent existence...
Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição
2018
Edilene De Souza Leite, Alfredo Pereira
1 citation
We review the variety of meditation practices and discuss the non-dual view of the mind and the body, proposing the concept of a Feeling Self, which is empty of essence and constituted by the dynamics of experience. This concept is consistent with the principles advanced by Nagarjuna in the Buddist Mahayana tradition and the interdisciplinary ontology of Triple-Aspect Monism. The principles of...
MacSphere
2018
Christopher Jensen
6 citations
This project explores the evolution of medieval Chinese Buddhist perspectives on dreams through a series of in-depth comparisons between the oneiric narratives preserved in Huijiao's (慧皎) "Biographies of Eminent Monks" (Gaoseng zhuan 高僧傳 [GSZ]) and Daoxuan's (道宣) "Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks" (Xu gaoseng zhuan 續高僧傳 [XGSZ]), drawing inspiration from contemporary Sinological and...
Creative Education
2018
Dorothy A. Sisk
4 citations
This article explores the use of mindfulness practices in a leadership program, and highlights two major contributors to the development of mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk and Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn, a physician. Selected mindfulness programs are reviewed, and a research study integrates mindfulness practices in a leadership program, and the effect of mindfulness practices on student...
Technical Transactions
2018
Péter Győri, Albert Fekete, Agnes Herczeg
The paper reviews some recent attempts that describe the meaning of dry gardens that can be found in Zen Buddhist monasteries in Japan.When researchers try to figure out the meaning of the visual elements, its structure or the placement of the stones, they usually stay on the level of understanding.However, the daily meditational practice among these walls near the dry garden provides a...
Open Scholarship Institutional Repository
2018
Brent Nakamoto
I’m interested in the way we read images—they way we see through an image’s surface in order to perceive its illusion, in the same way that we see through words in order to understand their meaning. I’m interested in this relationship, in both images and texts, between surface, illusion, and meaning. In Buddhist philosophy, the source of suffering is in our attachments to the self-as-image. The...
Sinergie Italian Journal of Management
2018
Vittorio Mascherpa
Vittorio MascherpaUna ricerca per il termine "mindfulness" sul database MEDLINE della National Library of Medicine, che raccoglie tutte le riviste scientifiche indicizzate a livello internazionale, restituisce oggi un totale di 3.350 articoli.La stessa ricerca effettuata su Amazon.comci informa dell' esistenza di 18.238 libri pubblicati sull'argomento, e di ben 40.345 prodotti vari che in...