International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
February 20, 2024
Michael R. Sheehy
A classic set of eight similes of illusion (sgyu ma’i dpe brgyad) are employed recurrently throughout Indian and Tibetan Buddhist literature to illustrate the operations of cognition, its correlative perceptions, and experiences that emerge. To illustrate a Buddhist psychology of metaphor, the fourteenth century Tibetan scholar and synthesizer of the Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) or Great Perfection...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
February 20, 2024
Debashish Banerji
5 citations
Contemporary Buddhism has been fashioned from cross-cultural interactions between a long history of Asian traditions and the expansionist drive of modernity. As part of this engagement, Buddhism, particularly in the West, has developed a close relation with transpersonal psychology. This essay forms an introduction to the special issue of articles approaching this relation between Buddhism and...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
February 20, 2024
Elías Capriles
2 citations
In the debate between Freud and Romain Rolland the latter asserted the infants’ oceanic feeling to be saner than the adults’ limited sense of self, and that mystics recover the oceanic feeling without losing the learning achieved during socialization. Freud retorted that the oceanic feeling involved a sense of shelterlessness, and whoever went through derealization was psychotic and needed to...
International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology
February 20, 2024
Marta Nešković
6 citations
Abstract This paper explores the intersection of spirituality and martial arts through an in-depth examination of Shaolin Kung Fu as practiced within the Shaolin Monastery in Henan Province, China. Conducting fieldwork from April 2018 to August 2020, the study employs theories of practice and embodiment to understand how religious teachings are interwoven into physical movements and martial...
Religions
February 16, 2024
K. Taylor, Eli Kramer
In this paper, we will present Rinzai practices from Zen Masters Ikkyū Sōjun (一休宗純, 1394–1481) and Hakuin Ekaku (白隠 慧鶴, 1686–1769) as offering a distinctive kind of spiritual exercise: disruptive reorientation to transcendence (enlightenment) through immanence (a return to the world in all its ugly distractions, beauty, and insight). This paper seeks to explore Hadot’s philosophy as a way of...
BUDDHIST STUDIES
2024
V.V. Vorobyov
The article is devoted to analyzing two main approaches to the study of consciousness proposed by philosopher David Chalmers: the third-person approach and the first-person approach. The first approach, characteristic of the Western scientific tradition, views consciousness through objective observation and physical correlates such as neural activity and behavior. The second approach, proposed...
Nursing Philosophy
January 2024
Buyandelger Batmunkh, Munguntuul Enkhbat
Mongolian philosophical underpinnings of well-being were expressed in the form of mythology, shamanism and Mongolian Buddhism before the development of modern nursing in Mongolia. Among these forms, the philosophical underpinnings of well-being, mythology and shamanism were formed as a result of the roots of Mongolian philosophy, whereas Buddhism spread relatively late. As a result of Mongolian...
Kom : casopis za religijske nauke
2024
Ilija Dabetić
The oldest religious beliefs of the ancient China were characterized by personification of natural phenomena, cult of ancestors with a developed magical element and frequent practice of alchemical experimentation. Sorcery continues to exist in later ages, as a feature of classical Chinese autochthonous religions, especially Daoist mystical efforts. In the period from the fourth to the second...
International Journal of Philosophical Practice
2024
Imi Pui Yin Lo
This study explores the convergence and disparities between The Dhammapada, a classic Buddhist text, and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, aiming to synthesize their social and ethical doctrines as practical life directives. Over five months, the researcher meticulously analyzed the texts, elucidating core arguments and linguistic nuances. Three main sections delineate shared principles,...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
2024
Tianyuan Yu
In this article, I introduce a “Zen-informed spiritual research paradigm” rooted in an Eastern Buddhist worldview that fundamentally transcends Western mainstream functionalism. I first propose a definition of “spiritual research” and discuss its philosophical and methodological implications. I then elaborate on the features of a Zen-informed spiritual research paradigm concerning ontology,...