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Dynamic Martial Arts as Meditation: Vipassana as a Philosophical and Practical Synchronicity
Knowledgeable Research A Multidisciplinary JournalMartial arts and Vipassana meditation differ in form but share profound philosophical and practical similarities, making martial arts a unique form of dynamic meditation. Despite the differences between martial arts and Vipassana meditation, both share a
Devendra Singh
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Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 279-290, September 2025.ABSTRACT A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that people must learn how to do. Adding to this well‐established focus on the socialization of religious subjects, I argue that becoming religious ...
Daniel Winchester
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AnveṣaṇāThe vipassanā meditation method developed as a distinct meditation tradition in Burma during the nineteenth century and gained widespread popularity not only in Asian countries but also in Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Venerable
Welampele Ratanasara
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Mind–Body Health Technique : Its Creation, Transition, and Formalization
SAGE Open, 2020 Liu Zi Jue , a traditional mind–body health technique, is highly regarded and has been widely spread nowadays due to its easy learning, easy operation, and demonstrable physical and psychological therapeutic value.
Juan Shi, Rou-Jia Wang, Feng-yan Wang
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Brain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2025.How do we accurately measure mind wandering? This review compares five methods: from self‐reports (prone to bias) to brain scans (precise but expensive). No single method captures all aspects, so we propose the MAMW framework—a unified approach combining strengths of each technique.
Sholeh Nazari +2 more
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Journal of Pineal Research, Volume 77, Issue 2, March 2025.ABSTRACT Growing evidence demonstrates that meditation practice supports cognitive functions, including attention and interoceptive processing, and is associated with structural changes across cortical networks, including prefrontal regions and the insula.
Emanuele R. G. Plini +2 more
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Psychophysiology, Volume 62, Issue 2, February 2025.Abstract This study investigates the proposed mechanism of mindfulness, its impact on body awareness and interoception, and its potential benefits for mental and physical health. Using psychophysical assessments, we compared 31 expert meditators with 33 matched controls (non‐meditators who engage in regular reading, more than 5 h per week) in terms of ...
Maik Mylius +4 more
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Vipassana Meditation and Teacher Decision-Making [PDF]
, 2011 The purpose of this grounded theory study was to build a theory about the process and function teachers construct around the effect Vipassana meditation has on stress, teaching, and decision-making.
Glogowski, Jeffrey Ronald
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The practice of mindfulness: from Buddhism to secular mainstream in a post-secular society
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2012 The article focuses on the practice of mindfulness, which has migrated from being part of a religion, Buddhism, to being an integral part of Western psychology.
Liselotte Frisk
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PHYSICAL AND MENTAL PURIFICATION THROUGH VIPASSANA
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, 2022 Modern life moves so quickly that there isn't even time to breathe. Science, business, political structures, and other areas of human endeavour have advanced dramatically. They are seeing an upsurge in mental illness, delinquency, crime, drug addiction, alcoholism, and suicide, among other things, despite their advancements in these domains.
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