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...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2011
Patricia Milz, A. Theodoropoulou, Shisei Tei et al.
IntroductionDifferent meditation practices reportedly affect brain electric activity.ObjectivesTo assess common characteristics in brain electric activity during the state of meditation across different meditation traditions.AimsDo meditation traditions share commonalities in EEG spectral power changes from task-free resting to meditation?MethodsData from 71 experienced meditators of five...
Milestone Documents of World Religions
January 30, 2011
“Zazen Wasan” (“Song of Meditation”) was written in the early eighteenth century ce (ca. 1718) by the Japanese Zen master Hakuin Ekaku, the first Buddhist master in history to put forth the idea of common Zen, the Zen practiced by the ordinary masses, to make the complicated and mysterious Zen thinking and practice understandable in plain, everyday terms. Zazen is a term of Zen Buddhism that...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
January 19, 2011
Alberto Chiesa, Peter Malinowski
456 citations
Mindfulness-based approaches are increasingly employed as interventions for treating a variety of psychological, psychiatric and physical problems. Such approaches include ancient Buddhist mindfulness meditations such as Vipassana and Zen meditations, modern group-based standardized meditations, such as mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and further...
2011
Matthew Chu Ho-tat
A growing body of research has supported the benefits of mindfulness practice. However, not many studies investigated its effects on positive human functioning. In addition, most studies treated mindfulness as skills and techniques for achieving bare awareness, without addressing its philosophical underpinnings. In the Buddhist tradition, mindfulness is paying close attention to one’s immediate...
Rutgers University Community Repository
2011
Samantha Mary Costanzo
My analysis demonstrates Luigi Pirandello’s application of spiritual modes of thought ranging from Eastern mysticism to the modern Western movements of Theosophy, Spiritualism and Parapsychology. Using Antonio Illiano’s seminal work, Metapsichica e letteratura in Pirandello (Metapsychics and Literature in Pirandello) as a point of departure, my research incorporates the various philosophical,...