Consciousness and Cognition
December 2010
Fred Travis, Jonathan Shear
This paper proposes a third meditation-category--automatic self-transcending--to extend the dichotomy of focused attention and open monitoring proposed by Lutz. Automatic self-transcending includes techniques designed to transcend their own activity. This contrasts with focused attention, which keeps attention focused on an object; and open monitoring, which keeps attention involved in the...
November 29, 2010
I. W. Ferreira
Book review : Turning-points in Buddhist mysticism and philosophy / Jacobus S. Kruger. ISBN: 978-0-6203-9731-5. Publisher: Aurora Press, New Mexico, pp. 192.
International journal of cardiology
November 5, 2010
Caroline Peressutti, Juan M Martín-González, Juan M García-Manso et al.
The dynamic interactions among physiological rhythms imbedded in the heart rate signal can give valuable insights into autonomic modulation in conditions of reduced outward attention. Therefore, in this study we analyzed the heart rate variability (HRV) in different levels of practice in Zen meditation (Zazen). Nineteen subjects with variable experience took part in this study. In four special...
Kontakt
October 20, 2010
B. Allan Wallace
Povaha a účel šamatyBuddhistický výzkum přírody vychází z naprosto odlišného východiska než západní věda, a podobně se tedy liší i metody jejího zkoumání.První průkopníci vědecké revoluce, včetně Kopernika, Keplera a Galilea, projevili počáteční zájem o povahu fyzických objektů, nacházejících se nejdál od lidské subjektivity: jednalo se o záležitosti relativních pohybů Slunce a Země, struktury...
Buddhist Studies Review
September 7, 2010
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
2 citations
Throughout years of war and political upheaval, Buddhist women in Laos have devotedly upheld traditional values and maintained the practice of offering alms and other necessities to monks as an act of merit. In a religious landscape overwhelmingly dominated by bhikkhus (fully ordained monks), a small number have renounced household life and become maekhaos, celibate women who live as nuns and...
CrossCurrents
June 1, 2010
Bruce M. Sullivan, Bill Wiist, Heidi A. Wayment
1 citation
The Buddhist Health Study: Meditation on Love and Compassion as Features of Religious Practice Bruce M. Sullivan, Bill Wiist, and Heidi Wayment Love and compassion are most important, most precious, most powerful, and most sacred. Practicing them is useful not only in terms of true religion but also in worldly life for both mental and physical health. They are the basic elements supporting our...
Mentálhigiéné és Pszichoszomatika
June 1, 2010
Tibor Porosz
Az írás áttekintést ad a buddhista pszichológia tradicionális irodalmának nyugati recepciójáról, illetve egyes gondolatainak a nyugati pszichológiával történt összehasonlító elemzéseiről. Ezt követően a nyugati és a buddhista pszichológia általános jellegzetességeit veti egybe, hasonlóságaikat és különbségeiket foglalja össze. Ehhez kapcsolódóan a cikk a nyugati tudományosság és a buddhista...
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
February 16, 2010
Yujiro Ikemi, Hitoshi Ishikawa, J.R.M. Goyeche et al.
As practices of altered states of consciousness (ASC) have become more widely used among psychotherapists who have become aware of the limitations of psychoanalytic, educational and behavioral approaches, negative aspects (‘Makyo’) of ASC have drawn their special attention. For the purpose of controlling or preventing these side-effects, (1) the problem of indication is most important, (2) and...
Emotion
February 1, 2010
Joshua A Grant, Jérôme Courtemanche, Emma G Duerden et al.
Zen meditation has been associated with low sensitivity on both the affective and the sensory dimensions of pain. Given reports of gray matter differences in meditators as well as between chronic pain patients and controls, the present study investigated whether differences in brain morphometry are associated with the low pain sensitivity observed in Zen practitioners. Structural MRI scans were...
The Behavior Analyst
2010
Roger Bass
Zen's challenge for behavior analysis is to explain a repertoire that renders analysis itself meaningless-a result following not from scientific or philosophical arguments but rather from a unique verbal history generated by Zen's methods. Untying Zen's verbal knots suggests how meditation's and koans' effects on verbal behavior contribute to Enlightenment and Samādhi. The concept of stimulus...