Sentences with phrase «buddhist traditions»

Mindfulness - based programs are based on the Buddhist traditions of mindfulness meditation and adjusted to mental health care based on the Western science of psychology.

She has served on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute's faculty since 1999, taught Sensorimotor Psychotherapy at Naropa University for 12 years, and has trained as a meditation instructor in the Shambhala and Buddhist traditions.

Rice Lake, WI About Blog Red Cedar Buddha Sangha is a mindfulness community practicing meditation and studying in the Buddhist traditions of Soto Zen and Thich Nhat Hanh.

A tiny Himalayan kingdom that's long been fiercely protective of its ancient Buddhist traditions wants to transform its capital into an electric car city.

Abandoning these Western values based in individualism and hierarchy, Gaines further described how his epiphany occurred when he turned away from the Western canon as a young man and began to investigate Muslim and Buddhist traditions of artistic practice, in which individual expression and emotional affect were secondary to systematic, mathematically derived formal investigations.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: «Tibet and India: Buddhist Traditions and Transformations» (closes on Sunday) Floating high in a small mezzanine gallery above the museum's South and Southeast Asia galleries, this jewel of a show asks how Buddhism, fading out in India, managed to find its way over the Himalayas and blossom to life in Tibet.

Samira Abbassy's self - portraiture and mixed - media sculptures explore cultural identity, knitting together disparate visual languages, conventions and myths drawn from Arab - Iranian, Persian, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist traditions.

Luang Prabang's quiet charm, local Buddhist traditions and relaxed ambiance make the Laotian city a perfect complement to Southeast Asia's other top destinations.

View serene statues of deities from Hindu - Buddhist traditions across Indonesia, and exquisite gold and jewels in the Treasure Rooms.

It took me to ashrams and temples throughout India and the Far East where I lived for months on end, and it gave me the opportunity to become exposed to the Tibetan Buddhist traditions as I taught English to Tibetan Buddhist nuns living in exile in North India.

I am not Buddhist, but my mother is and we were raised around many Buddhist traditions and practices, so I felt that the ritual would be an important one to observe.

Throughout many decades of colonial and military rule, the people of Myanmar held fast to their ancient Buddhist traditions.

Wisdom is leading English language publisher specializing in Buddhist literature including translation of reference texts, and commentaries, meditation manuals and teachings by past and contemporary teachers from all Buddhist traditions.

In response, Shambhala Publications offers this free eBook consisting of excerpts from some of our books from a variety of Buddhist traditions that encapsulate values of love and nonviolence, which we can all practice ourselves.

There are many versions of his story spread throughout different regions of China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, coming from both Taoist and Buddhist traditions, though mythologists date the most popular version back to the Han Dynasty in the 2nd Century BC.

This resource is designed to meet the standards of the new Higher RMPS exam (valid from August 2016) and to help pupils to explain what is worship and to analyse the importance of worship in the two main Buddhist traditions: Theravada and Mahayana.

In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, Cintamani is a wish - fulfilling jewel.

The Gate, more appropriately titled Le temps des aveux in French, is based on the memoirs of a man named François Bizot (Raphaël Personnaez) who was arrested by the Khmer Rouge while he was innocently researching Buddhist traditions at monasteries.

The service is an alternative dating site focused on the niche of mindfulness — a form of meditation with roots in Buddhist traditions that aims to get people in tune with their own body and environment.

Believed to bring peace, calm, and a greater synchronization with the universe, om is a meditative mantra found in both Hindu and Buddhist traditions, represented by the omkara symbol.

Indeed, Beverly was voicing an interesting and persistent misunderstanding that the yoga meditation traditions teach only what she referred to as samadhi — by this she meant concentration practices — and that the Buddhist traditions primarily stress insight, or vipassana, practice.

Additionally, he has extensive years of study and training in: Bon, Sakya, and New Kadampa Buddhist Traditions; Shamatha, Mantra, Dzogchen, and Zen Meditation; Taoism; and Ayurveda.

Though rare in the scientific literature, the broader range of effects including meditation - related difficulties have been documented in Buddhist traditions, the researchers wrote.

Yet when they find this absent in most Buddhist traditions, they do not automatically deny that Buddhism is «a religion.»

The speakers were monastics from the Christian and Zen Buddhist traditions, as well as an Islamic scholar, who seemed impressed with the hospitality of her Benedictine hosts.

I raise this question particularly with Pure Land Buddhists because the affirmation of other power, or what Christians call grace, seems to place a greater emphasis on the metaphysical character of the world and human experience than is present in other Buddhist traditions.

Sources for socially engaged Buddhism can certainly be found in Buddhist traditions, and Buddhists can point to important instances of social action for noble causes in their history.

Other Buddhists have found grounds for a more active involvement in social issues in Buddhist traditions.

Increasingly applied in western psychology, the practice of mindfulness comes out of the Buddhist tradition of meditation, and is championed by a growing number of celebrities, athletes and executives.

No one is saying that the other religions / philosopies are not as bad, although I have never heard of a politician who follows Buddhist tradition trying to stop legalization of abortions, or an adherent of Jainism trying to stop same sex marriage.

«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.

Nor is it to suggest that the Buddhist tradition contains no comparable elements.

Nevertheless, certain ideas did become central to the Buddhist tradition.

If we look at the Buddhist tradition,.

He apparently holds that since this is possible, there is no reason to consider other embodiments of compassion outside the Buddhist tradition.

Nevertheless there have been both rejection and criticism of the mainstream Buddhist tradition by Zen.

Nevertheless, I continue to wonder whether the embodiment of compassion must be found in the Buddhist tradition?

In the Buddhist tradition the liberating truth is not mainly a matter of rational assent but of practical understanding of the cause and cure of human suffering.

A cosmic mandala image from the Buddhist tradition appears in several places.

Many in the Christian west have been attracted to the non-theistic and more humanistic character of the Buddhist tradition, or to the deep mystical spirituality of the Hindu tradition; others have been attracted to the more physical practice of spirituality to be found in Chinese tradition.

(Siksasamuccaya, adapted from William Theodore de Bary, The Buddhist Tradition (New York: Vintage Books, 1972) 84 - 85.)

The author's thesis is this: dialogical encounter with Buddhist tradition — in this case illustrated by the esoteric teachings of Kukai — and Western ecological models of reality emerging in the natural sciences and Christian process theology, may energize an already evolving global vision.

The meaning of «Amida» is bound up with the Buddhist tradition and that of «Christ» with the Christian one.

In a 2007 study, Davidson compared the attentional abilities of novice meditators to experts in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

This is the point at which he cites the authority of the Buddhist tradition with good results.

I presume that a contemporary Buddhist would stand in a similarly problematic relation to the ancient Buddhist tradition.

The Buddhist tradition dictates that the human mind is like a drunken monkey stung by a bee frantically swinging from branch to branch.

In this doctrine I not only follow James, Whitehead, and von Wright, but also rejoin the ancient Buddhist tradition as well as one of the traditions in Islam.

I repeat: it is time to rejoin the Buddhist tradition, the most subtle of all very old international philosophical - religious traditions.

The Dalai Lama has often drawn parallels between scientific inquiry and the Buddhist tradition of self - reflection and meditation.