The most influential student of Phra Ajarn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera was Phrassong Saiphra Ajarn Man Phurithatto. Ajarn Man, as he was commonly known, focused on the vipassana field and spent his time meditating in forests and caves. This paper analyses the Thai forest tradition of Phrassong Saiphra Ajarn Man Phurithatto with a focus on vipassana, or meditation. The article details the doctrine...
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CONTEXT Meditation is proposed as an anti-stress practice lowering allostatic load and promoting well-being, with brief formats providing some of the benefits of longer interventions. OBJECTIVES PsychoNeuroEndocrinoImmunology-based meditation (PNEIMED) combines the teaching of philosophy and practice of Buddhist meditation with a grounding in human physiology from a systemic and integrative...
Wie generiert ein neuronales System komplexe bewusste Wahrnehmungen, beispielsweise die Farbe Rot, den Ton einer singenden Amsel oder den Geruch einer Lilie? Diese Fragen bilden die Basis für eine der interessantesten neurowissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen. Erst wenn wir verstehen, wie aus neuronalen Aktivierungsmustern subjektive Erfahrungen entstehen, können wir möglicherweise Bewusstsein...
According to several conceptualizations of meditation, the interplay between brain systems associated to self-related processing, attention and executive control is crucial for meditative states and related traits. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate such interplay in a highly selected group of "virtuoso" meditators (Theravada Buddhist monks), with long-term training in the two...
This article examines the relation of contemplative exercises with enhancement of students' experience during neuroscience studies. Short contemplative exercises inspired by the Buddhist tradition of self-inquiry were introduced in an undergraduate neuroscience course for psychology students. At the start of the class, all students were asked to participate in short "personal brain...
Based on evidence of parasympathetic activation, early studies defined meditation as a relaxation response. Later research attempted to categorize meditation as either involving focused or distributed attentional systems. Neither of these hypotheses received strong empirical support, and most of the studies investigated Theravada style meditative practices. In this study, we compared...
Dualities such as self versus other, good versus bad, and in-group versus out-group are pervasive features of human experience, structuring the majority of cognitive and affective processes. Yet, an entirely different way of experiencing, one in which such dualities are relaxed rather than fortified, is also available. It depends on recognizing, within the stream of our consciousness, the...
이 논문은 ‘종교체험(religious experience)’을 분석의 도구로 삼아 신비주의의 비교 연구(comparative study of mysticism) 관점에서 간화선을 분석한다. 간화선 전통이 속해 있는 선불교는 수행과 체험의 관계를 믿음이나 은총과 같은 개념에 의지하지 않고 이성에 호소해 설명하려는 대표적인 신비주의 전통이다. 수행 전통으로서의 간화선의 특징을 종교체험과 신비주의라는 개념을 활용해 분석하면 이 점이 훨씬 분명하게 드러난다.BR 비교의 관점에서 간화선은 여타 전통에 비해 다음과 같은 특성을 보인다. 첫째, 간화선은 인간 언어의 한계를 명확하게 인식하면서도 언어를 수행에 적극적으로 활용한다. 둘째, 간화선은 여타 전통보다 개인의 체험에 초점을 맞추는 철저한 경험주의와...
Preface Contributors General Editor's Introduction, Steven T. Katz JUDAISM, edited by Moshe Idel CHRISTIANITY, edited by Bernard McGinn ISLAM, edited by Peter Awn HINDUISM, edited by Arvind Sharma BUDDHISM, edited by John Powers CONFUCIANISM AND DAOISM, edited by Livia Kohn NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS, edited by John Grim
The concept of mindfulness is based on Vipassana, a Buddhist meditation technique. The present study examines the physiological indices of attention and autonomic regulation in experienced Vipassana meditators to test the claim that mindfulness is an effective therapeutic tool due to its effects on increasing awareness of present experience and emotional self-regulation. Ten male experienced...