Psychoneuroendocrinology
June 1, 2011
Tonya L Jacobs, Elissa S Epel, Jue Lin et al.
435 citations
Telomerase activity is a predictor of long-term cellular viability, which decreases with chronic psychological distress (Epel et al., 2004). Buddhist traditions claim that meditation decreases psychological distress and promotes well-being (e.g., Dalai Lama and Cutler, 2009). Therefore, we investigated the effects of a 3-month meditation retreat on telomerase activity and two major contributors...
Clinical Psychology Review
May 13, 2011
S. Keng, Moria J Smoski, Clive J. Robins
Within the past few decades, there has been a surge of interest in the investigation of mindfulness as a psychological construct and as a form of clinical intervention. This article reviews the empirical literature on the effects of mindfulness on psychological health. We begin with a discussion of the construct of mindfulness, differences between Buddhist and Western psychological...
Contemporary Buddhism
May 1, 2011
Mirabai Bush
142 citations
This paper explores the introduction of mindfulness into courses in higher education. Some of these courses are taught by Buddhist scholars; others are taught by scholars within other disciplines who themselves have a meditation practice. Those scholars included here represent a much larger number in diverse settings, including state universities, liberal arts colleges, Ivy League institutions,...
Contemporary Buddhism
May 1, 2011
Martine Batchelor
42 citations
In this article I share some of my experiences of practising Korean Zen meditation and how, without ever mentioning the word ‘mindfulness,’ this practice helps us to become mindful. This leads me to suggest that the main ingredients of Buddhist meditation are samatha (which I will translate here as ‘concentration’) and vipassanā (which I will call ‘experiential enquiry’). No matter which...
Contemporary Buddhism
May 1, 2011
Rupert Gethin
402 citations
The Buddhist technical term was first translated as ‘mindfulness’ by T.W. Rhys Davids in 1881. Since then various authors, including Rhys Davids, have attempted definitions of what precisely is meant by mindfulness. Initially these were based on readings and interpretations of ancient Buddhist texts. Beginning in the 1950s some definitions of mindfulness became more informed by the actual...
Contemporary Buddhism
May 1, 2011
Bhikkhu Bodhi
620 citations
The purpose of this paper is to determine the meaning and function of mindfulness meditation using as the source of inquiry the Pāli Canon, the oldest complete collection of Buddhist texts to survive intact. Mindfulness is the chief factor in the practice of satipa hāna, the best known system of Buddhist meditation. In descriptions of satipa hāna two terms constantly recur: mindfulness (sati)...
Contemporary Buddhism
May 1, 2011
Paul Grossman, Nicholas T. van Dam
540 citations
The Buddhist construct of mindfulness is a central element of mindfulness-based interventions and derives from a systematic phenomenological programme developed over several millennia to investigate subjective experience. Enthusiasm for ‘mindfulness’ in Western psychological and other science has resulted in proliferation of definitions, operationalizations and self-report inventories that...
Journal of Seon Studies
April 30, 2011
Ja-Rang Lee
본 논문에서는 율의 학처에 나타나는 분노로 인해 발생하게 되는 악행에 대해 살펴보고, 분노의 주된 치유 방법인 자애(mett?)의 구체적인 실천 방법을 『위슏디막가(Visuddhimagga)』를 중심으로 고찰해 보고자 한다. 불교에서는 분노를 삼독(三毒)이라는 3가지 근본 번뇌 가운데 하나로 헤아리며 그 단멸의 중요성을 강조한다. 분노는 정서적인 문제이므로 사실상 그 자체가 율의 조문에서 직접적으로 다루어지지는 않지만, 마음을 산란하게 할 뿐만 아니라, 실제로 욕이나 폭력, 중상모략 등과 같은 악행을 불러일으키며 자타를 파괴시킬 수 있는, 말하자면, 불교수행의 근간이라고 할 수 있는 계율의 실천을 방해하는 근본 요인으로써 경계한다. 이와 같이 분노는 불도수행에 있어 반드시 제거해야 할 번뇌인데, 그...
Emotion
April 1, 2011
Baljinder K Sahdra, Katherine A Maclean, Emilio Ferrer et al.
203 citations
We examined the impact of training-induced improvements in self-regulation, operationalized in terms of response inhibition, on longitudinal changes in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning. Data were collected from participants undergoing 3 months of intensive meditation training in an isolated retreat setting (Retreat 1) and a wait-list control group that later underwent identical...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2011
Pascal L Faber, D. Lehmann, Patricia Milz et al.
IntroductionThe measure of complex dimensionality assesses the number of independent processes that generate an observed time series.ObjectivesTo investigate whether meditation exercises are associated with fewer or more independently active brain processes, and whether different meditation traditions show different results.AimsDoes brain electric complex dimensionality differ between the state...