Sentences with phrase «buddhist spiritual practice»

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«Mindful attention,» which Schwartz draws from the Buddhist tradition, is a spiritual discipline right in line with the practice of detachment employed by the Church's desert fathers.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

Join Mindful Families of Durham, a Buddhist - inspired spiritual community that supports area parents, caregivers, and their children in the practice of mindfulness and the understanding of the...

To test his theory, Newberg has scanned the brains of more than 20 adherents of spiritual practices, including Christian prayer and Tibetan Buddhist meditation.

That is not surprising, because the Buddhist texts put particular emphasis on the fact that all spiritual practices — whether mental, physical or oral — are directly or indirectly intended to transform the mind.

She is a reporter, coach, and educator who has been practicing Buddhist meditation for twenty years and combines powerful storytelling with scientific research and spiritual depth.

When Tiger Woods announced he was back to meditating daily and returning to his Buddhist roots, did you think that his spiritual practice would also...

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Dive into your spiritual practice as you visit one of the many exquisitely - adorned temples; listening to soulful mantra and practicing meditation techniques with some of the most ancient Buddhist monks in Southeast Asia.

A former student of Buddhist Studies with a master's from Harvard Divinity School, McGarvey came to the Ed School interested in how spiritual practices can influence people's lives for the better, and how they work consciously and rationally with deep emotional reactions that often overwhelm.

Since 1968, he has pursued a variety of spiritual practices, including guru kripa; devotional yoga focused on the Hindu spiritual figure Hanuman; meditation in the Theravadin, Mahayana Tibetan, and Zen Buddhist schools; karma yoga; and Sufi and Jewish studies.

Raised partly in a secluded Buddhist temple in Okayama, Japan, she says her spiritual practice informs her exploration of simplicity and reduction.

(Shepp called jazz a «lily»; in catalogue essay, Schoonmaker explains that he chose the lotus for its Buddhist connotation of spiritual redemption, though in practice the reference seems tenuous.)

In the 1990s, her Buddhist meditation practice, her relationship with her aging mother and the birth of her daughter converged, resulting in a lyrical and openly spiritual new body of work, friends said.

Beginning with the famous «An Icelandic Saga,» in which Iannone narrates her journey to Iceland (where she meets Dieter Roth and leaves her husband to live with him), this singular volume traces Iannone's search for «ecstatic unity» from its carnal beginnings in her relationships with Roth and other men into its spiritual incarnation as she becomes a practicing Buddhist.

Like Reinhardt, Mr. Morris (a practicing Buddhist) is also interested in the spiritual aspects of an all - black canvas.

Simulating the reproductions of the one - thousand - armed bodhisattva of compassion known as Senju Kannon, Sugimoto's images signify the Buddhist practice of replicating manifestations of a deity in order to achieve spiritual merit.

The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness uncovers the essential Buddhist teachings at the heart of this powerful anti-stress program, enabling you to deepen your historical and spiritual understanding of MBSR and nourish your practice.