Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2025
Meenal Katarnikar
preprint
“Meditation means dissolving the invisible walls that unaware has built” This is said by the well-known spiritual Master Sadhguru. With this, he is suggesting that meditation means going beyond all barriers, conditionings and labels. Not only him, but all those who practice meditation and/or engaged with it in the same way or the other echo the same feeling that meditation takes you closer to...
International Journal of Physiology Health and Physical Education
July 1, 2025
Ankit Ranga, Poonam Ahuja
Pranayama, the yogic art of breath regulation, occupies a central position in classical Yoga literature, bridging physiological practice and spiritual realization. This study presents a comparative analysis of pranayama as conceptualized in the Yoga Raj Upanishad and the Yoga Chudamani Upanishad, highlighting their distinct methodological approaches, philosophical orientations, and intended...
BMC Psychology
April 26, 2025
Yanhe Deng, Taoyuan Du, Xianglong Zeng et al.
1 citation
The primary purpose of the Loving-kindness and Compassion Meditations (LKCM) in Buddhism was the cultivation of kindness, but many modern LKCM trainings focused on happiness, and even used the "kindness for happiness" strategy that advocate cultivation of kindness for the benefit of happiness. This study investigated whether cultivating kindness was lesser desired than enhancing happiness for...
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
March 18, 2025
Oscar R. Gómez
Several clinical studies demonstrate how exercises from Vedic traditions, such as Yoga, or Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, as well as tantric practices, have a significant psychobiological impact. This study seeks to identify the neurophysiological correlates of practices referred to as tantric and non-tantric meditations through a qualitative systematic review of collected data. First, the...
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
March 18, 2025
Oscar R. Gómez
Several clinical studies show how tantric practices and exercises of Vedic traditions—such as Yoga—or Theravada or Mahayana Buddhism have a significant psychobiological impact. This study compares the neurophysiological correlates of practices called tantric and non-tantric meditations through a qualitative systematic review of the collected data. It was evidenced that tantric practices produce...
Journal of Indian Philosophy
March 14, 2025
Jacob D. Fisher
2 citations
Abstract This paper examines whether Mādhyamikas meditate, or if their insight into reality is purely a theoretical one. While traditional scholarship in India and Tibet is of a single voice in considering Madhyamaka fundamentally a meditative tradition, contemporary interpretations frequently neglect its meditative dimension by getting embroiled in its metaphysical aspects, via the lenses of...
Poornaprajna International Journal of Management Education & Social Science
February 28, 2025
P. S. Aithal, Ramanathan Srinivasan
Purpose: Advaita Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism represent two profound non-dualistic philosophies that challenge conventional perceptions of separation and multiplicity. This study examines their distinct interpretations of reality, exploring how each tradition articulates the unity of existence through differing metaphysical frameworks. Advaita Vedanta posits an absolute, formless Brahman as the...
IntechOpen eBooks
January 13, 2025
Matthew Furnell, William van Gordon
The concept of enlightenment has long intrigued scholars and contemplation practitioners alike, often associated with profound insights into the nature of self and reality. This chapter explores the notion of enlightenment through the lens of non-dualism, emphasizing the dissolution of the independent, single, permanent self and the emergence of self-transcendent experiences. Such experiences...
Comparative philosophy of religion
2025
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
1 citation
AbstractMysticism is mostly employed in the context of theistic religions because historically, mysticism aims at a unification with God. It must be clarified if the project of comparative mysticism that this book suggests can be properly carried out when including non-theistic religions. The chapter examines phenomena such as quietism, ekstasis, and contemplation. Further, the relationship...
Filozofija i Društvo
2025
Rick Repetti
This prolegomenon sketches issues central to a philosophy of meditation, develops only some of them here, and refers readers to other works where some not covered here are addressed. A complete philosophy of meditation would include accounts of: the differences between meditative practices, states, and traits; religion-based meditative traditions; novel contemporary meditative practices and...