The American Journal of Chinese Medicine
2003
Pei-Chen Lo, Ming-Liang Huang, Kang-Ming Chang
64 citations
According to the experimental results and practitioners' subjective experience, we report some hypotheses that may account for meditative phenomena during the practice of Zen-Buddhism. Orthodox Zen-Buddhist practitioners, aiming to prove the most original true-self, discover and uncover the inner energy or light on the way towards their goal. Perception of the inner light can be comprehended as...
Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
June 30, 2001
Yeon Ja Choi
According to a discipline of Buddhist philosophy, cognitive understanding is believed to be based above all on the name (general concept) under the assumption that understanding is controlled by language. Hence, the discipline proposes Sasimsagwan (a thorough and deep insight on 4 things, i.e. name, thing, one's real nature and difference) as a means to free the subjects from the fixed language...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
May 3, 2001
Noori B. Gillani, Jonathan C. Smith
43 citations
This study is an attempt to rigorously map the psychological effects of Zen meditation among experienced practitioners. Fifty-nine Zen meditators with at least six years of experience practiced an hour of traditional Zazen seated meditation. A control group of 24 college students spent 60 min silently reading popular magazines. Before relaxation, all participants took the Smith Relaxation...
Oxford University Press eBooks
December 7, 2000
Ninian Smart
This chapter shows that while Brahmanism rested on a kind of sacramental and mantric ritual, Buddhism did not encourage such rites. Buddhism looked mostly on concentration, involving the purification of consciousness. The Buddhist theory of causation was inimical to both mantric causation and the use of ritual other than in a psychological manner. There could not be any strict revelatory...
Progress in Brain Research
2000
L Rapgay, V L Rinpoche, R Jessum
The Tibetan Buddhist classification of mind, its divisions and the system of meditation practices aimed at achieving ideal states of being are a complex presentation of psychological, behavioral and spiritual concepts and processes that demand thorough understanding before assessing their value and outcome (Yeshe, 1995). It is the authors' belief that with the rapid advances in the neuroscience...
Shofar
March 1, 1999
Richard G. Marks
2 citations
Jewish-Buddhist Meetings: Review Essay Jewish-Buddhist Meetings Review Essay Richard G. Marks Washington and Lee University 93 The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India, by Rodger Kamenetz. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. 304 pp. $12.00. That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist, by Sylvia Boorstein. New York:...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
1999
Myron J. Stolaroff
In the fall of 1996 issue of the Buddhist magazine Tricycle, various teachers of Buddhist meditation practice commented on the value of psychedelic experiences, with opinions of them ranging from helpful to harmful. Here, the author hopes to explain these conflicting viewpoints by describing important aspects of employing psychedelics that must be taken into account for effective results. These...
Buddhist Studies Review
June 16, 1996
A. Solé-Leris
Meditation. Sogyal Rinpoche. Rider, London 1994. 90 pp. (+ 2 pp. Notes). £6.99. Metta. Loving kindness in Buddhism. Khun Sujin Boriharnwanaket. Translated from the original Thai by Nina von Gorkom. Triple Gem Press, London 1995. 120 pp. £7.95.
Journal of Chinese Philosophy
February 10, 1996
Rachel Β. Blass
1 citation
This paper distinguishes between two conceptions of philosophical counseling. The one focuses on the clarification of the individual’s psychological and philosophical self and the other on the transcendence of that self. A comparison of the latter conception with the self-transcendence that rakes place through Zen Buddhism contributes to the examination of the question of whether philosophical...
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
October 1, 1995
S Hajicek-Dobberstein
34 citations
In the legendary biographies of some Buddhist adepts from the 2nd- and 9th-centuries there are some clues which can be interpreted to reveal that the adepts were consuming psychedelic Amanita muscaria, 'fly agaric', mushrooms to achieve enlightenment. This secret ingredient in the alchemical elixir they used to attain 'realization' was, of course, unnamed, in keeping with their vows to maintain...