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...
December 1, 2014
G. Rozenberg
Dans cet ouvrage issu de sa these de doctorat, Erik Braun s’arrete sur un moment cle de l’histoire du bouddhisme birman, au tournant du xxe siecle. Dans un contexte colonial ou la monarchie a ete abolie (1885) et ou le gouvernement britannique pratique une politique de non-engagement dans les affaires religieuses, les Birmans sont fortement preoccupes par le devenir de la religion bouddhique,...
International Journal of Dharma Studies
December 1, 2014
Harrison Blum
23 citations
This study presents the findings of the first pilot series of the Mindfulness Allies Project (MAP), and focuses on the intersection of mindfulness, Western Buddhism, socioeconomic status (SES), and race. While much has been published about the efficacy of mindfulness meditation with various clinical and non-clinical populations, understudied populations still include people of low SES and...
The Psychoanalytic Review
December 1, 2014
Paul D. Cooper
The author reviews the literature on the relation between Buddhist meditation and psychoanalytic listening and argues that the influence of the dynamic unconscious is not addressed in this literature, which engenders a pragmatic overvaluation of attention and an accompanying unexamined devaluation of the analyst's experiences of inattention. The article emphasizes contemporary psychoanalytic...
Brain and Cognition
October 2014
Barbara Tomasino, Alberto Chiesa, Franco Fabbro
The most diffuse forms of meditation derive from Hinduism and Buddhism spiritual traditions. Different cognitive processes are set in place to reach these meditation states. According to an historical-philological hypothesis (Wynne, 2009) the two forms of meditation could be disentangled. While mindfulness is the focus of Buddhist meditation reached by focusing sustained attention on the body,...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
August 21, 2014
Jakub Urbaniak
This article seeks to explore the mystical approaches to suffering characteristic of both Buddhism and Christianity. Through the analysis of the meanings, the two traditions in question ascribe to suffering as a ‘component’ of mystical experience; it challenges the somewhat oversimplified understanding of the dichotomy ’sage-the-robot versus saint-the-sufferer’. Thus it contributes to the...
Buddhist Studies Review
July 24, 2014
Terry Hyland
7 citations
Recent philosophical and neuroscientific writings on the problem of free will have tended to consolidate the deterministic accounts with the upshot that free will is deemed to be illusory and contrary to the scientific facts (Blackmore 2011; Harris 2012). Buddhist commentaries on these issues have been concerned in the main with whether karma and dependent origination implies a causal...