Numen
January 30, 2018
Roberto Serafim Simões
1 citation
O período antigo do ioga emerge em meio a uma sociedade indiana estratificada e influenciado por religiões como o samkhya e o hinduísmo bramânico, sistematizando-se como um dársana ortodoxo hinduísta por meio da escritura antiga Ioga Sutras (IS) alguns séculos antes de era cristã. O IS explica tanto as causas do sofrimento humano quanto a promessa de uma boa vida iogue, baseando-se na teoria...
Numen
January 30, 2018
Catón Eduardo Carini
El presente artículo se centra en indagar en la historia de la organización budista internacional Vipassana Meditation. Primero, realiza un recorrido por el desarrollo del budismo en Asia, haciendo hincapié en su afincamiento en Birmania. Luego, explora las trayectorias vitales de los líderes religiosos que formaron la mencionada organización y analiza los principales rasgos de la cosmovisión...
Numen
January 30, 2018
Otávio Augusto Vieira
O presente artigo apresenta a meditação vipassana, também conhecida como meditação do insight ou analítica, como ensinada incialmente por Sidarta Gautama e transmitida pela tradição de S.N.Goenka. As técnicas de meditação da atenção plena (anapana-sati), analítica (vipassana-sati) e do amor compassivo (metta), assim como a filosofia prática de Buda são transmitidas durante o retiro de silêncio...
Current objectives of postgraduate American studies
January 14, 2018
Stefan Benz
This article examines the epistemological concerns of Michael McClure’s poem “Double Moire for Francis Crick” (2010). Beyond showcasing McClure’s persistent interest in the natural sciences as well as in the Chinese and Japanese mystical traditions, this poem lyrically appropriates the physical phenomenon of the moiré effect and thereby exemplifies how a cooperation between these different...
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...