Indian journal of medical sciences
July 1, 2013
Alessandra Fiorentini, Josuel Ora, Luigi Tubani
Background: Meditation in its various forms is a traditional exercise with a potential benefit on well-being and health. On a psychosomatic level these exercises seem to improve the salutogenetic potential in man.Especially the cardiorespiratory interaction seems to play an important role since most meditation techniques make use of special low frequency breathing patterns regardless of whether...
Literator
June 4, 2013
M. Sienaert
The aim of this article is twofold: • To postulate the Buddhist notion of selflessness as central to the art and writing of Breyten Breytenbach. • To provide an overview of the philosophy this implies and of the way in which it offers a reading of the Breytenbach-oeuvre. The Buddhist concept of selflessness as expressed in the work of Breytenbach is by way of contrast firstly set against the...
Journal of Behavioral Addictions
June 1, 2013
Edo Shonin, William van Gordon, Mark D Griffiths
Purpose In the last five years, scientific interest into the potential applications of Buddhist-derived interventions (BDIs) for the treatment of problem gambling has been growing. This paper reviews current directions, proposes conceptual applications, and discusses integration issues relating to the utilisation of BDIs as problem gambling treatments. Method Aliterature search and evaluation...
Transgressions
2013
Sue Erica Smith
This Buddhist program has provided a unique opportunity in an Australian context to consider some effects of a designated weekly half-hour values program that utilises reflection to teach about values and promote self-knowledge. Teachers in this program have used a variety of meditation techniques. We began with, and have maintained, awareness of breath meditations and imaginative heart-focused...
PLoS One
2013
Nicolás Fayed, Yolanda López-del-hoyo, Eva Andres et al.
This work aimed to determine whether (1)H magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) are correlated with years of meditation and psychological variables in long-term Zen meditators compared to healthy non-meditator controls. Design. Controlled, cross-sectional study. Sample. Meditators were...
2013
Eric Haynie
Prologue: Skepticism in Buddhism and Science Part I: Restoring Our Human Nature 1. Toward a Revolution in the Mind Sciences 2. Buddhism and Science: Confrontation and Collaboration 3. Buddhism and the Mind Sciences 4. A Three-Dimensional Science of Mind 5. Restoring Meaning to the Universe 6. What Makes Us Human? Scientific and Buddhist Views 7. Achieving Free Will Part II: Transcending Our...
LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)
October 1, 2012
Faustino Luiz Couto Teixeira
The comparative study of mysticism and inter-religious spirituality has gained more space in universities and research centers that radiate everywhere. They are also research involving Eastern religions, in its peculiar mystical trait. Also in the context of Buddhism one can talk on spirituality, understood as a search path of liberation. This article presents the theme of Zen Buddhist...
October 1, 2012
Faustino Teixeira
The comparative study of mysticism and inter-religious spirituality has gained more space in universities and research centers that radiate everywhere. They are also research involving Eastern religions, in its peculiar mystical trait. Also in the context of Buddhism one can talk on spirituality, understood as a search path of liberation. This article presents the theme of Zen Buddhist...
Philosophy Compass
October 1, 2012
John Spackman
5 citations
Abstract Recent years have seen a growing interest in Buddhist thought as a potential source of alternative conceptions of the nature of the mind and the relation between the mental and the physical. This article considers and assesses three different models of what contemporary philosophy of mind can learn from Buddhist thought. One model, advocated by Alan Wallace, holds that we can learn...
Consciousness and Cognition
September 1, 2012
Madelijn Strick, Tirza H J Van Noorden, Rients R Ritskes et al.
In two experiments and two different research paradigms, we tested the hypothesis that Zen meditation increases access to accessible but unconscious information. Zen practitioners who meditated in the lab performed better on the Remote Associate Test (RAT; Mednick, 1962) than Zen practitioners who did not meditate. In a new, second task, it was observed that Zen practitioners who meditated used...