Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
June 7, 2025
Bronwyn Finnigan
Abstract There is substantial evidence that mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have beneficial effects for a range of disorders, though their underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Prominent developers of MBIs have proposed the Buddhist concept of no-self as a core mechanism driving their efficacy. The idea of no-self has been interpreted as the process of reducing, attenuating or...
Tourism Management
June 7, 2025
YiTing Zhou, Zhiwei Lin, IpKin Anthony Wong
7 citations
This research explores Zen retreats through the psychological transformation perspective, focusing on the general population's broader mental vulnerabilities. Using a multimethod qualitative approach, including online traveler reflections and communications, onsite observations, and interviews, it reveals a multifactorial interaction framework in which tourists seek personal betterment,...
International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology
June 1, 2025
Prakash Thapa, Harikumar Pallathadka, Yam Bahadur Kshetry
Buddhism is a philosophy which is centered on awakening from suffering and achieving mindfulness through ethical conduct, meditation and insight into the nature of reality. Moreover, Buddhism teaches love, kindness, compassion and freedom, and a man can search for his inner dimension of life. It helps man to live in positivity, freedom and self- exploration. It helps every individual to...
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
June 1, 2025
Mahendra Samarawickrama
This paper examines the limitations of analytical and computational methods in understanding reality, highlighting the secondary role of language and mathematics, which often leads to paradoxes. Gödel’s incompleteness theorems underscore the inherent incompleteness and undecidability in logical and computational systems, such as the Turing machine. We propose that consciousness, operating as a...
Religions
May 27, 2025
Peter D. Hershock
The technological advances and material control that have resulted from reductive and deterministic practices of science are quite real. The digitally mediated expansion of experiential freedoms-of-choice and the transformative problem-solving potential of artificial intelligence are undeniable. But for all its successes, reductive physicalism has failed to solve the so-called hard problem of...
May 27, 2025
Prai Wattanatakulchat, Julieta Galante, Timothy Wood et al.
preprint
Objective. Unwanted meditation-related experiences commonly occur and alternate with positive experiences over time. So far, effects have been studied as discrete events, creating difficulties to predict challenging experiences. We explored meditation experiences through a developmental lens, investigating whether a modern interpretation of the Stages of Insight (SoI), a Buddhist model of...
Brazilian Journal of Development
May 26, 2025
Pei Fuen Ng
This is a review article which examines the nature of Buddhist influence on four ‘mindfulness-based interventions’ (MBI): the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme, the Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT). It also examines the operational constructs utilised in psychological research with an...
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
May 21, 2025
Tenzin Namdul
1 citation
Although tukdam-a meditative state entered through various practices resting in extremely subtle consciousness while dying-is seen to only be achieved by adept practitioners, the philosophy and psychology that underpin tukdam inform Tibetan communities beyond just accomplished adepts and frame the very way death and dying is conceived. Based on an 18-month ethnographic study, this article...
Mindfulness
May 20, 2025
Eviatar Shulman
5 citations
Abstract This article offers a new interpretation of Brahma-vihāra meditation (BVM) in early Buddhism, positioning it between ethical cultivation and development of samādhi ; BVM can thereby perfect ethical practice by creating a comprehensive meditative state that is thoroughly ethical. The fact that the radically ethical states of mind of BVM are sometimes included in the path to liberation,...
BMC Psychology
May 20, 2025
Bahr Weiss, Van Vu, Hoang-Minh Dang et al.
2 citations
Depression presents a substantial world-wide public health burden. Although evidence-based treatments exist, the majority of individuals with depression do not receive evidence-based treatments, particularly in low-and-middle-income countries, due to (a) scarcity of mental health professionals, and (b) mental health-related stigma. One approach addressing these issues is task-shifting, transfer...