Buddhist Studies Review
June 14, 1988
Bhikkhu Pāsādika
Was ist der Weg - er liegt vor deinen Augen. Zen-Meditation im japanischen Garten ('What is the Way? It is right in front of you. Zen Meditation in Japanese Gardens'). Rudolf Seitz, with contributions by Kim Lan Thai and Masao Yamamoto. Kosel-Verlag, Munich 1985. 176 pp., including 72 monochrome plates. N. P.
Buddhist Studies Review
June 13, 1988
Nissim Cohen
Tranquillity and Insight. An Introduction to the Oldest Form of Buddhist Meditation. Amadeo Solé-Leris. Century Hutchinson, London, and Shambhala, Boston 1986. 176 pp. £6.95 / $7.95.
Buddhist Studies Review
June 13, 1988
Maurice Walshe
The Way of Buddhist Meditation. Serenity and Insight according to the Pali Canon. Kheminda Thera. Lake House, Colombo 1982. xiv, 66 pp. For free distribution.
Religious Studies
March 1, 1988
Michael McGhee
I have meditated regularly, following simple Buddhist procedures, for more than ten years, and that seems just about long enough for me to start to offer some preliminary account of it, despite the limitations of my progress and experience, and the difficulty of describing the more intimate and less explored reaches of the mind. I think I have learned enough to say that through prolonged...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 1987
Michael Forte, Daniel Brown, Michael Dysart
A survey of 110 subjects was conducted to investigate the differences in the phenomenological quality of mindfulness mediators who attended retreats of either two days (twenty-seven subjects), two weeks (twenty-five subjects), or three months (fifty-eight subjects). A questionnaire, the Profile of Trance, Imaging, and Meditation Experience (TIME), was used for the survey. Discriminant analyses...
American Journal of Psychotherapy
April 1, 1987
M DelMonte
Meditation experiences are viewed from a constructivist perspective. Concentrative and mindfulness approaches are compared. It is concluded that, although these meditative techniques differ (and often are used in conjunction), they both yield insight into how the mind processes experience at both the preverbal and verbal levels.
Journal of Religion and Health
September 1, 1986
P Novak
Information overload is one of the factors behind current alarming statistics on stress. Meditation helps the body-mind resist the deleterious effects of the information onslaught. Though meditation is well known as a relaxation technique, its noetic value is often overlooked. Its benefits extend well beyond superficial soothing: it trains attention; it increases pattern recognition; and it...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1986
Michael C. Dillbeck, Panayotis D. Assimakis, Dennis Raimondi et al.
50 college students practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program were administered the Culture Fair Intelligence Test and Group Embedded Figures Test. Significant longitudinal increases over a 3- to 5-yr. period were found in performance on both measures. In the context of normative data, these findings indicate that the practices contribute to an increase in the effectiveness...
Psychosomatic Medicine
March 1, 1986
E M Morrell, J G Hollandsworth
The present study reexamined an investigation that found enhanced plasma norepinephrine (NE) levels during isometric handgrip after 30 days of meditation practice. Since hemodynamic activity did not show corresponding increases, it was suggested that meditation had down regulated the cardiovascular response to sympathetic stimulation. The present study assessed response to venipuncture as well...
International Journal of Neuroscience
March 1986
Michael C. Dillbeck, S A Vesely
This study assesses variation in frontal bilateral EEG coherence among normal subjects during trials of a concept learning task; the task used a concept-reversal paradigm found from prior research to distinguish frontal lobe patients from normal adults. Subjects were either participants in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program or controls matched for age, sex, and intellectual ability, and...