Neuroimage
January 3, 2015
Anne Hauswald, Teresa Übelacker, Sabine Leske et al.
Experienced meditators are able to voluntarily modulate their state of consciousness and attention. In the present study, we took advantage of this ability and studied brain activity related to the shift of mental state. Electrophysiological activity, i.e. EEG, was recorded from 11 subjects with varying degrees of meditation experience during Zen meditation (a form of open monitoring...
Asian Philosophy
January 2, 2015
Monima Chadha
11 citations
One of the major aims of this article is to provide the theoretical account of mindfulness provided by the systematic Abhidharma epistemology of conscious states. I do not claim to present the one true version of mindfulness, because there is not one version of it in Buddhism; in addition to the Abhidharma model, there is, for example, the nondual Mahāmudrā tradition. A better understanding of...
2015
Kelly Graves, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Lynn Kwiatkowski et al.
This research will examine the unique cultural context of Japanese Zen as it is practiced, embodied and shared in an American monastic setting. It will look at how this particular “culture of meditation” (defined as the U.S. Zen monastic culture) promoted within these communities may influence the way a person frames their bodies, sense of self and environment. Through this process, I suggest...
BioMed Research International
2015
Ido Amihai, Maria Kozhevnikov
73 citations
Cognitive and neuroscience research from the past several years has shed new light on the influences that meditative traditions have on the meditation practice. Here we review new evidence that shows that types of meditation that developed out of certain traditions such as Vajrayana and Hindu Tantric lead to heightened sympathetic activation and phasic alertness, while types of meditation from...
Философия образования
2015
1 citation
narrative: the problem of self-reflexive new intellectual history.-Odyssey.Man in History.
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2015
Jijimon Alakkalam Joseph
1 citation
Comparing Eckhartian and Zen1 Mysticism2 Jijimon Alakkalam Joseph Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260–1328?), often referred to as “the man from whom God hid nothing,” is one of the great Christian theologians and philosophers of all time. But it is as a mystic that Eckhart is generally known. So any serious study of mysticism, in our times, cannot overlook this Dominican whose birth, childhood, and...
The journal of Japanese philosophy/Journal of Japanese philosophy
2015
Steve Odin
Reviewed by: Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen, and the Psychedelic Eschaton by Cunningham, Eric Steve Odin Cunningham, Eric. Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen, and the Psychedelic Eschaton Eric Cunningham’s Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen and the Psychedelic Eschaton is an adventurous, original, and illuminating work that with deep insight undertakes an...
Frontiers in Psychology
2015
Phebe B Kemmer, Ying Guo, Yikai Wang et al.
In the last decade, a number of neuroimaging studies have investigated the neurophysiological effects associated with contemplative practices. Meditation-related changes in resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) have been previously reported, particularly in the default mode network, frontoparietal attentional circuits, saliency-related regions, and primary sensory cortices. We collected...
BioMed Research International
2015
Henrique Adam Pasquini, Guaraci Ken Tanaka, Luis Fernando Hindi Basile et al.
This study aimed to verify the electrophysiological correlates of the changes in long-term regular meditators. We use modern techniques of high-resolution electroencephalography applied to slow potentials, power spectra, and potencies related to the events. To obtain encephalographic records, we use an assembly of 128 channels in 31 subjects (17 Soto Zen Buddhist meditators). The motivation of...
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
2015
Michael Stoeber
This paper explores Christian contemplative meditation, focusing on the prayer of Recollection as it is developed especially by Evelyn Underhill and St. Teresa of Avila. It outlines the practice and explores possible theoretical and therapeutic dynamics, including some comparative reflections of this form of Christian meditation with Buddhist Samatha Vipassanā meditation and Mindfulness Based...