Purpose Western business ethics frameworks, such as utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics and stakeholder theory, guide ethical reasoning; however, ethical failures within organizations remain a widespread phenomenon. This study aims to address this gap by integrating Buddhist ethical philosophy, specifically the Eightfold Noble Path, the Four Noble Truths and Vipassana meditation, into...
This chapter will be divided into two parts. The first section analyses and explains Lāhījī’s teachings concerning the necessary prerequisites for the mystical path of the ṭarīqat . The Way of the Sufi friends and darvīshes is a way of life that involves the daily practice of a host of ascetical and contemplative practices. When practised sincerely under the spiritual guidance of a living Sufi...
We examine the claim that a minimal-conceptual, “bare” awareness underlies ordinary experience, and whether this pre-conceptual awareness (PCA, or minimal-dual awareness) should be understood primarily as an earlier, biologically rooted developmental baseline, or as a disclosure of a deeper ontological reality. The Retrieval hypothesis treats PCA as a cognitive–neural default mode that can be...
Understanding how intention and karmic accumulation occur within Buddhist ethics benefits from examining the cognitive sequence (citta-vīthi) described in Theravāda Abhidhamma. Standard manuals describe this process for isolated stimuli, but leave open how competing or overlapping objects are resolved under the system’s timing constraints. This paper introduces a typology of attentional capture...
A expansão de programas de meditação em contextos escolares tem sido sustentada por um corpus crescente de evidências científicas, cuja produção permanece concentrada no Norte Global e desvinculada das condições socioculturais dos contextos que os recebem. Este artigo analisa como a implementação da atenção plena nas escolas expressa e reproduz a colonialidade do saber, identificando três...
Sleep quality is thought to be crucial for the development of the body, mind, and brain during adolescence. Due to erratic daily schedules, academic demands, and psychological stress, sleep-related problems among teenagers are quickly increasing in the modern era. The current study's goal was to find out how chanting the Shiva Sankalpa Sukta affected teenagers' sleep quality. Seventy teenagers...
This study aims to describe the practice of Chan Meditation carried out by the Mahayana Buddhist community at Ekayana Serpong Temple, Tangerang Regency, Banten, and to examine its adaptation and effectiveness in the digital era. A qualitative method with a psychology of religion approach was used, involving observation, in-depth interviews with practitioners and community leaders, and...
.I study what is known about the extent to which group minds shape the content of dreams and suggest we can interact consciously with some group minds during the lucid dreaming state. Typical dreams are thoroughly social, typically depicting dreamer interactions with characters that represent the group minds he/she is a member of.
I examine more closely the question of whether and how we can voluntarily access and benefit from accessing group mind content. I argue that some of the experiences on serotonergic psychedelics can be seen in terms of unstructured access to a variety of group minds. The ego dissolution experience on psychedelics can be viwed in terms of fusion between the individual and some salient group mind.
Chapter 10 : The Doors of Perception explores how altered states unlock consciousness’ vast but ordinarily constrained potential. Drawing on Aldous Huxley’s mescaline experiments and his notion of the brain as a “reducing valve,” the chapter follows how chemical mysticism, meditative practices, and rational inquiry by figures such as Richard Feynman open access to hidden territories of...