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Oxford Scholarship Online June 22, 2017 Jay L. Garfield
This essay explores the role of the two aspects of mindfulness (smṛti and samprajanya) in ethical discipline. It argues that mindfulness understood as the union of these two attitudes is essential to the kind of perception and attention necessary for spontaneous moral engagement with the world. The essay first discusses why mindfulness is so important in Buddhist ethics. It then turns to the...
Religions June 8, 2017 Kyriacos C. Markides 3 citations
It is generally assumed by western scholars and spiritual seekers that mystical, experiential religion and spirituality are primarily a hallmark of the far East, as exemplified by Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and tribal religions like native American shamanism. In this overview, based on thirty years of field research as a sociologist, I have tried to show that such mystical practices and...
Personality and Individual Differences June 8, 2017 Adam W. Hanley, Anne Baker, Eric L Garland
The association between mindfulness and selflessness is firmly grounded in classical Indo-Sino-Tibetan contemplative traditions, but has received limited empirical attention from Western researchers. In Buddhism, the relationship between mindfulness and the self is of central concern to the cultivation of well-being. Mindfulness is believed to encourage insight into the truly insubstantial...
Argument Biannual Philosophical Journal June 1, 2017 Kamil Nowak
Undifferentiating insight in the Chan Buddhist meditation and its early Buddhist analogies: In the paper a comparative analysis of Chan Buddhist meditation and the early Buddhist meditation has been conducted. In the first part the meditational instructions present in Zuochan yi and the corresponding texts of Chinese Buddhism have been demonstrated. Subsequently, based on those texts, the ideal...
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies June 1, 2017 Andrew Pickering
I discuss different scientific and nonmodern worlds as they appear in a performative (rather than representational) idiom, situating my analysis in relation to the recent ontological turns in STS and anthropology. I propose an ontology of decentred becoming that can help us take seriously the multiplicity of ‘found’ ontologies. A key concept is that of ‘islands of stability,’ which enables a...
CrossCurrents June 1, 2017 Peter Heinegg
Religiously Flavored Therapy, Therapeutically Flavored Morality Peter Heinegg Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. By Robert Wright, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2017. xii + 321 pp. $27. There is no one quite like Robert Wright on the American literary scene today, an ex‐Baptist secular humanist (agnostic, not atheistic), intellectual journalist...
April 28, 2017 Lawrence W. Barsalou 6 citations
The dysfunctional roles of mind-wandering have been noted widely both in contemplative traditions and in Western science. This chapter attempts to apply dual-process theories to contemplative practices that have existed for thousands of years in Buddhism. According to Buddhism, several important types of Involuntary Initial Response (IR) underlie dissatisfaction and unhappiness: grasping and...
April 24, 2017 Hong Lin
Is Chan (Zen) Still Relevant in 21st Century? What do you get in the studies of Chan ontology, history, Chan’s reflections on Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, Chan utterances and debates, Chan and mystics, and Chan poems and drawings? What is your mindset when thinking about Chan in modern societies? Chan is clearly a philosophy that impacts human are view about the essence of science and...
Apple Academic Press eBooks April 21, 2017 Arvind K. Birdie, Kuldeep Kumar
276 The present workplace and world is blooming complicated and stressful day by day. The present chapter reviews the role of mindfulness in workplace. Mindfulness is gaining a growing popularity as a practice in daily life, apart from Buddhist insight meditation and its application in psychology. Not that long ago, meditation was seen widely as the preserve of hippies and saffron-clad monks,...
University of Illinois Press April 20, 2017 Madhuri M. Yadlapati
This chapter explores several notes of ambiguity or self-correction in Hindu faith: the relationship between mystical certitude and discursive doubt in the Upanishads; bhakti (devotional faith) and the limitations of dharma in the epics; the questioning of assumptions about reality spurred by the doctrine of maya; and the paradoxical character of Hindu theism as reflected in the figure of...