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Educational Media Reviews Online October 29, 2008 Jessica Schomberg
Distributed by Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-FROG (3764)Produced by Freedom Behind Bars ProductionsDirected by Jenny Phillips, Andrew Kukura, and Anne Marie Stein2007, DVD, color, 76 min. This film documents a program to teach Vipassana (Insight Meditation) to inmates at Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in Alabama. The intensity of the program...
Biomedical Research October 1, 2008 Shr-Da Wu, Pei-Chen Lo
Phenomenon of the heart rate variability (HRV) during various meditation techniques has been reported. However, most of these techniques emphasized the skill of slow breathing (<0.15 Hz). This paper reports our study on HRV during meditation which emphasizes inward attention. Inward attention has been an important approach for the Zen-meditation practitioners to enter into transcendental...
The Journal of Sexual Medicine July 2008 Lori A Brotto, Rosemary Basson, Mijal Luria
Despite their widespread prevalence, there are no existing evidence-based psychological treatments for women with sexual desire and arousal disorder. Mindfulness, the practice of relaxed wakefulness, is an ancient eastern practice with roots in Buddhist meditation which has been found to be an effective component of psychological treatments for numerous psychiatric and medical illnesses. In...
Psychophysiology May 22, 2008 Sahib S. Khalsa, David Rudrauf, Antonio Damasio et al. 276 citations
Attention to internal body sensations is practiced in most meditation traditions. Many traditions state that this practice results in increased awareness of internal body sensations, but scientific studies evaluating this claim are lacking. We predicted that experienced meditators would display performance superior to that of nonmeditators on heartbeat detection, a standard noninvasive measure...
Foundation Books May 16, 2008 Jean L. Kristeller, Kobita Rikhye 14 citations
Indian psychology has a rich history of meditative and related practises. In fact, most of the contemporary interest in the psychology of meditative practice in the West can be traced back to Hindu-based mantra meditations or to the multitude of Buddhist meditative practises, which have many of their roots in India (Goleman, 1988). Common elements of meditative practice, such as cultivating...
Sibirica 2008 Katherine Metzo 1 citation
T he three articles in this issue of Sibirica focus on the ways in which sacred landscapes have been (re)integrated into the ritual life of indigenous Buriats, as well as how they can become contested terrains.Once considered the opiate of the masses by Soviet leaders, religion is no longer "dangerous" in Russia.Decades of institutionalized atheism have taken their toll, however, as sacred...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University) 2008 20 citations
The present study investigated the incidence of lucid dreaming within a Japanese university student sample. From 153 Japanese students 47% reported experiencing a lucid dream at least once and 19% were frequent lucid dreamers (frequency equal or higher than once a month). Dream recall frequency was significantly related to lucid dream frequency. In the Japanese sample the incidence of lucid...
Arc The Journal of the School of Religious Studies December 1, 2007 Livia Köhn
hinese mysticism has a long and varied history: from the early thinkers of the Axial Age through various permutations in the middle ages to modem versions of both theory and practice.It spread throughout the different aspects of the Chinese tradition and was present as much in the dominant school of Confucianism and the foreign religion of Buddhism as in Daoism, the indigenous higher religion...
Zen Ritual November 22, 2007 Taigen Dan Leighton
Abstract Chapter 5 addresses what many today would consider the central ritual of Zen—zazen—or seated meditation. Although zazen is commonly understood by way of instrumental logic as a means or method for attaining enlightenment, from the Sōtō Zen perspective initiated by Dōgen and featured in this essay, the order of cause and effect is reversed—zazen is “the practice‐realization of totally...
Zen Ritual November 22, 2007 David E. Riggs
Abstract Chapter 8 seeks to uncover the historical origins of kinhin, the ritual of walking meditation as it has been practiced in the Sōtō school of Japanese Zen. Practiced today between periods of zazen, the Sōtō style of kinhin entails an exceptionally slow pace of walking in order to coordinate each step with a full cycle of respiration. Although Sōtō monks typically attribute this practice...