The Metaphysics Of Meditation

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Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation

Author : Rick Repetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000575748
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation written by Rick Repetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the state of the field of the philosophy of meditation and engages primarily in the philosophical assessment of the merits of meditation practices. This Handbook unites novel and original scholarship from 28 leading Asian and Western philosophers, scientists, theologians, and other scholars on the philosophical assessment of meditation. It critically assesses the conceptual and empirical validity of meditation, its philosophical implications, its legitimacy as a phenomenological research tool, its potential value as an aid to neuroscience research, its many practical benefits, and, among other considerations, its possibly misleading interpretations, applications, and consequences. Following the introduction by the editor, the Handbook’s chapters are organized in six parts: • Meditation and philosophy • Meditation and epistemology • Meditation and metaphysics • Meditation and values • Meditation and phenomenology • Meditation in Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions A distinctive, timely, and invaluable reference work, it marks the emergence of a new discipline therein, the philosophy of meditation. The book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience in the fields of philosophy, meditation, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, theology, and Asian and Western philosophy. It will serve as the textbook in any philosophy course on meditation, and as secondary reading in courses in philosophy of mind, consciousness, selfhood/personhood, metaphysics, or phenomenology, thereby helping to restore philosophy as a way of life.

The Metaphysics of Meditation

Author : Stephen Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350412422
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Meditation written by Stephen Phillips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Stephen Phillips focuses on one of the most important poems about meditation in world literature, as understood by two of the greatest philosophers of India, one classical, one modern. Sankara's commentaries on the Upanisads are a core of the Vedanta tradition and Aurobindo is a towering figure of 20th-century Hindu thought. This is the first time their approaches have been studied together. The Isa (c. 500 BCE) an Upanisad belongs to a genre of adhyatmika learning-concerning self and consciousness-in early Indian literature. According to the Ancient Indian tradition of yoga, meditation is antithetical to willful bodily and mental action. Breathing is all you do. In the conception of the Isa Upanisad, we are told that the best that comes from meditation is because of what the Lord is. In Sankara's interpretation it comes to block out the little you, whereas according to Aurobindo it comes as a divine connection, an occult Conscious Force belonging to truer part of oneself, atman, and an opening to that self's native energy. Framed around Aurobindo's translation of each of the Isa's eighteen verses, along with a translation of each verse, Phillips follows a different reading of Sankara as laid out in his commentary. All this is done against the backdrop of modern scholarship. Convergences and divergences of these streams are the focus throughout. Appendix A presents the Upanisad with the two readings side by side. This book traces a worldview and consonant yoga teaching common to two authors who are typically taken to be oceans apart, not only chronologically but in intellectual stance. Addressing a huge gap in the contemporary literature on meditation in the Hindu traditions, Phillips presents a compelling new way of thinking about meditation in the Advaita Vedanta philosophy and Upanisad.

Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141936061
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings written by René Descartes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece. This volume consists of not only a new translation of the original Latin text and the expanded objections and replies, but also includes selected correspondence and other metaphysical writings from the period 1641-49.

Meditations on First Philosophy

Author : René Descartes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780941736121
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Meditations on First Philosophy written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metaphysical Meditations

Author : Yogananda (Paramahansa)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphysical Meditations written by Yogananda (Paramahansa) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metaphysical Meditations (Japanese)

Author : Paramahansa Yogananda
Publisher : Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780876122396
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysical Meditations (Japanese) written by Paramahansa Yogananda and published by Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Paramahansa Yogananda offers prayers and affirmations that beginners and experienced meditators alike can use to awaken the boundless joy, peace, and inner freedom of the soul. Features more than 300 uplifting meditations, prayers, affirmations, and visualizations as well as introductory instructions on how to meditate.

Discourse on the Method

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300067736
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Discourse on the Method written by René Descartes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the arts. This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on Method and Meditations, and presents essays by leading scholars that explore his contributions in each of those fields and place his ideas in the context of his time and our own. There are chapters by David Weissman on metaphysics and psychoanalysis, John Post on epistemology, Lou Massa on physics and mathematics, William T. Bluhm on politics and ethics, and Thomas Pavel on literature and art. These essays are accompanied by others by David Weissman and by Stephen Toulmin that introduce the idea of intellectual lineages, discuss the period in which Descartes wrote, and reexamine the premises of his philosophy in light of contemporary philosophical, political, and social thinking.

Six Metaphysical Meditations

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Six Metaphysical Meditations written by René Descartes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Six Metaphysical Meditations" by René Descartes (translated by William Molyneux). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Waking, Dreaming, Being

Author : Evan Thompson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538316
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Waking, Dreaming, Being written by Evan Thompson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain. Thompson shows how the self is a changing process, not a static thing. When we are awake we identify with our body, but if we let our mind wander or daydream, we project a mentally imagined self into the remembered past or anticipated future. As we fall asleep, the impression of being a bounded self distinct from the world dissolves, but the self reappears in the dream state. If we have a lucid dream, we no longer identify only with the self within the dream. Our sense of self now includes our dreaming self, the "I" as dreamer. Finally, as we meditate—either in the waking state or in a lucid dream—we can observe whatever images or thoughts arise and how we tend to identify with them as "me." We can also experience sheer awareness itself, distinct from the changing contents that make up our image of the self. Contemplative traditions say that we can learn to let go of the self, so that when we die we can witness its dissolution with equanimity. Thompson weaves together neuroscience, philosophy, and personal narrative to depict these transformations, adding uncommon depth to life's profound questions. Contemplative experience comes to illuminate scientific findings, and scientific evidence enriches the vast knowledge acquired by contemplatives.

Metaphysical Meditations

Author : Paramahansa Yogananda
Publisher : Crystal Clarity Pubs
ISBN 13 : 9781565891791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysical Meditations written by Paramahansa Yogananda and published by Crystal Clarity Pubs. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysical MeditationsThe reprint of the original 1952 editionMost people want to meditate but do not know how to do so. The purpose of meditation is to connect the little joy of the soul with the vast joy of the Spirit with focused practice.Meditation is not the same as concentration which consists in freeing the attention from objects of distraction and focusing on one thing at a time. Meditation is that special form of concentration in which the attention has been liberated from restlessness, and is focused on the Infinite, to be focused only on God or sacred thoughts and ideas.Meditation consists in certain physical, psychological, and metaphysical processes - by which the static of restlessness can be removed from the body, mind, and soul radios, which can then be tuned in with the Infinite. By calm, continuous, one pointed attention the ego must be kept connected to the Spirit until they both become merged into everlasting bliss.In this book Yogananda gives some concrete metaphysical methods of meditation, for the student who has already struggled through the mobs of rowdy thoughts and crossed the portals of silence. The instructions will be found in the various sections of the book preceding each type of meditation: prayers or demands addressed to the Divine, affirmations about God, and those spoken to the individual consciousness.

Self, Reason, and Freedom

Author : Andrea Christofidou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415501067
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Self, Reason, and Freedom written by Andrea Christofidou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on the role of freedom in Descartes' thought and defends the theory of an internal relation between freedom and reason in his metaphysics.

Further Mystical Insights

Author : Paul Leon Masters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996459686
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Further Mystical Insights written by Paul Leon Masters and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Metaphysics of Descartes

Author : Leslie John Beck
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Descartes written by Leslie John Beck and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1979 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mind in the Balance

Author : B. Alan Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231519702
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Mind in the Balance written by B. Alan Wallace and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world. Wallace begins by exploring the relationship between Christian and Buddhist meditative practices. He outlines a sequence of meditations the reader can undertake, showing that, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar insight into the nature and origins of consciousness. From this convergence Wallace then connects the approaches of contemporary cognitive science, quantum mechanics, and the philosophy of the mind. He links Buddhist and Christian views to the provocative philosophical theories of Hilary Putnam, Charles Taylor, and Bas van Fraassen, and he seamlessly incorporates the work of such physicists as Anton Zeilinger, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking. Combining a concrete analysis of conceptions of consciousness with a guide to cultivating mindfulness and profound contemplative practice, Wallace takes the scientific and intellectual mapping of the mind in exciting new directions.

The Metaphysics Journal

Author : RD king
Publisher : 大賢者外語
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics Journal written by RD king and published by 大賢者外語. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything You Know About Metaphysics May Be Completely Wrong! Let’s face it – We all know the fact that we are not born with supernatural powers. If we are, we'd be making hundreds of thousands of dollars using our supernatural abilities and attract what we want in life. Anybody – Regardless of their circumstances can equip themselves with these information about entrepreneur mindset. Well, you are not alone. I’ve once walked down this lost path and I told myself that I would do whatever it takes to figure out the solution. And after years of research and hardship, I’ve finally found the solution, which I want to share with you today. Here’s What You'll Learn: Metaphysics Basics Metaphysics & Meditation Creating Sacred Spaces Learn Inner Guidance Skills Learn Remote Influencing

Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy

Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316571599
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy remains one of the most widely studied works of Western philosophy. This volume is a refreshed and updated edition of John Cottingham's bestselling 1996 edition, based on his translation in the acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. It presents the complete text of Descartes's central metaphysical masterpiece, the Meditations, in clear, readable modern English, and it offers the reader additional material in a thematic abridgement of the Objections and Replies, providing a deeper understanding of how Descartes developed and clarified his arguments in response to critics. Cottingham also provides an updated introduction, together with a substantially revised bibliography, taking into account recent literature and developments in Descartes studies. The volume will be a vital resource for students reading the Meditations, as well as those studying Descartes and early modern philosophy.

Practical Metaphysics

Author : Eric Butterworth
Publisher : Unity Books
ISBN 13 : 9780871593696
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Practical Metaphysics written by Eric Butterworth and published by Unity Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Butterworth has earned the trust of millions with his sound, hard-hitting advice on how to make life better through the practice of metaphysics. This adaptation from A Course in Practical Metaphysics is packed with insights, activities, and meditations which will increase your spiritual awareness and help you live a more fulfilling life. Learn about the background of metaphysics, the aspects of God, the will of God, Jesus, spiritual awakening, and how words and thought affect your life. Explore the practicality of metaphysics focusing on subjects such as faith, the presence and power of God, love, prayer, healing, prosperity, and mroe. Compiled by Mark Hicks from A Course in Practical Metaphysics and edited by Michael A. Maday.