Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1984
Daniel Brown, Michael Forte, Michael Dysart
89 citations
Tachistoscopic presentation of light flashes was used to test for differences in visual sensitivity among 3 groups of practitioners of Buddhist mindfulness meditation and non-meditator-controls. Meditation practitioners were able to detect light flashes of shorter duration than the non-meditators. There were no differences among the meditator groups. There were no differences among the groups...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1984
Daniel Brown, Michael Forte, Michael Dysart
82 citations
Practitioners of the mindfulness form of Buddhist meditation were tested for visual sensitivity before and immediately after a 3-mo. retreat during which they practiced mindfulness meditation for 16 hr. each day. A control group composed of the staff at the retreat center was similarly tested. Visual sensitivity was defined in two ways: by a detection threshold based on the duration of simple...
Anthropology & Education Quarterly
March 1, 1984
Thomas P. Rohlen
8 citations
Many Japanese companies, including the bank reported here, offer moral and spiritual training for new employees. Zen meditation, endurance walks, military boot camp experiences and the like teach fortitude, cooperation, self‐confidence and other qualitites of character and spiritual development. The attention to such education by modern corporations is notable. It reflects the particularly...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1984
C. Becker
This paper examines Buddhist meditation techniques as they apply to Pure Land visions and deathbed visions, particularly with their parallelism to modern American near-death and deathbed visions.
Etudes théologiques et religieuses
1981
C. Izard
Etude de la meditation Zen qui interesse a la fois le theologien, le psychophysiologiste et le psychotherapeute. L'A. detaille les differents Zen, essaie de specifier les niveaux de conscience, puis aborde la question des effets psychophysiologiques de la meditation, expose differents points de vue chretiens sur le Zen (U. von Balthasar, E. Lassalle). Fondee sur l'Ecriture et la Parole de...
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
1977
Winston L. King
4 citations
The attainment of cessation (nirodha-samāpatti) is the highest meditational state possible in Theravada Buddhism. Those in this state are to all appearances dead, for it is the extinction of all feeling and perception, continuing for as long as seven days. It is seen as the actual realization of Nibbana in this life. The basic technique of this achievement is yogic. The meditator proceeds...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
October 1, 1976
G D Grâce
The purpose of this research was to verify the effect of Zen meditation on personality and values. Two groups of Ss were formed, an experimental group of 9 Ss and a control group of 14 Ss. The California Psychological Inventory and the Study of Values were administered to both groups at the beginning and at the end of the experiment. The EG practised Zen meditation for the 5 months between the...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1974
Albin R. Gilbert
1 citation
Western sage psychologists, such as the Murphys (1968), have long felt the need to inform themselves and their confn!res on Asian psychology, now looming so large on the western horizon, Like western psychology, Asian psychology developed a scientific methodology, first, by observing mind phenomena, called dharmas, introspectively.Originally, the Hindus turned to introspection for other than...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1974
Robert A. C. Stewart
2 citations
Systems for promoting self-realization have come both from the West and the East.Two basically Eastern systems of "therapy," in the Zen tradition and the Hindu Yoga meditative tradition, are now attracting substantial interest in the West.There is now substantial Western concern to evaluate their effectiveness in the way that many other psychotherapeutic traditions have been examined.In...
Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
1974
Robert A. C. Stewart
The “name of the game” for all types of psychotherapy is ultimately the maximization of human happiness. All psychotherapy then becomes concerned with such notions as self-realization, self-actualization, human fulfilment, etc., although a given system may not use such terminology.This paper looks at some Eastern contributions to the promotion of self-realization—in particular a technique in...