A report on Meditation
Practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
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Passage Meditation
1 linksBook by Eknath Easwaran, originally published in 1978 with the title Meditation.
Book by Eknath Easwaran, originally published in 1978 with the title Meditation.
The book describes a meditation program, also now commonly referred to as Passage Meditation.
Acem Meditation
0 linksAcem Meditation is a meditation technique developed in Norway since 1966 by the Acem School of Meditation and is now taught in many countries.
The Relaxation Response
1 linksBook written in 1975 by Herbert Benson, a Harvard physician, and Miriam Z. Klipper.
Book written in 1975 by Herbert Benson, a Harvard physician, and Miriam Z. Klipper.
The scientific characterization of the relaxation response was initially prompted by research studies on Transcendental Meditation ("TM"), a yogic meditation technique, that was presented primarily to people in the Western world.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
0 linksPhilosopher, speaker and writer.
Philosopher, speaker and writer.
His interests included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, holistic inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society.
S. N. Goenka
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Satya Narayana Goenka (ISO 15919: Satyanārāyaṇ Goyankā; ; 29 January 1924 – 29 September 2013) was an Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation.
Theta wave
1 linksTheta waves generate the theta rhythm, a neural oscillation in the brain that underlies various aspects of cognition and behavior, including learning, memory, and spatial navigation in many animals.
Theta waves generate the theta rhythm, a neural oscillation in the brain that underlies various aspects of cognition and behavior, including learning, memory, and spatial navigation in many animals.
Meditation has been shown to increase theta power.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
0 linksPresentation of the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead or Bardo Thodol.
Presentation of the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead or Bardo Thodol.
The book explores: the message of impermanence; evolution, karma and rebirth; the nature of mind and how to train the mind through meditation; how to follow a spiritual path in this day and age; the practice of compassion; how to care for and show love to the dying, and spiritual practices for the moment of death.
Neidan
1 linksArray of esoteric doctrines and physical, mental, and spiritual practices that Taoist initiates use to prolong life and create an immortal spiritual body that would survive after death.
Array of esoteric doctrines and physical, mental, and spiritual practices that Taoist initiates use to prolong life and create an immortal spiritual body that would survive after death.
Neidan shares a significant portion of its notions and methods with classical Chinese medicine, fangshi and with other bodies of practices, such as meditation and the methods for "nourishing life" (yangsheng).
Plotinus
1 linksNeoplatonic philosopher likely to have been born in Lycopolis (modern day Asyut), Roman Egypt, and is regarded by contemporary scholarship as the founder of neoplatonism.
Neoplatonic philosopher likely to have been born in Lycopolis (modern day Asyut), Roman Egypt, and is regarded by contemporary scholarship as the founder of neoplatonism.
Henosis for Plotinus was defined in his works as a reversing of the ontological process of consciousness via meditation (in the Western mind to uncontemplate) toward no thought (Nous or demiurge) and no division (dyad) within the individual (being).
Dervish
2 linksDervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from, Darvīsh) in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (tariqah), or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty.
Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from, Darvīsh) in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (tariqah), or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty.
They practice meditation, as is the case with most of the Sufi orders in South Asia, many of whom owe allegiance to, or were influenced by, the Chishti order.