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Vipassana-Meditation, Sechswöchige Einheit mit Schüler:innen der Oberstufe
Die vorliegende Masterarbeit befasst sich mit der Durchführung einer sechswöchigen Vipassana-Meditationseinheit mit zwei Klassen einer 1. Sekundarschulklasse in der Schweiz.
Hubatka, Anne-Sophie
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PLoS ONE, 2019 So far, the large and expanding body of research on meditation has mostly focussed on the putative benefits of meditation on health and well-being. However, a growing number of reports indicate that psychologically unpleasant experiences can occur in the
Marco Schlosser +4 more
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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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AGNOSTIC MEDITATIONS ON BUDDHIST MEDITATION
Zygon, 2010 I first attempt a taxonomy of meditation in traditional Indian Buddhism. Based on the main psychological or somatic function at which the meditative effort is directed, the following classes can be distinguished: (1) emotion‐centered meditation ...
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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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American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 12, December 2024.ABSTRACT Buddhist Jhāna meditation and the Christian practice of speaking in tongues appear wildly distinct. These spiritual techniques differ in their ethical, theological, and historical frames and seem, from the outside, to produce markedly different states of consciousness—one a state of utter calm and the other of high emotional arousal.
Josh Brahinsky +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 ObjectiveTo develop a fine-grained phenomenological analysis of "pure awareness" experiences in meditators.MethodsAn online survey in five language versions (German, English, French, Spanish, Italian) collected data from January to March 2020. A total of
Alex Gamma, Thomas Metzinger
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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 423-441, December 2024.This article uses the life and career of Parwati Soepangat as a case study to shed light on the narrative of Buddhist women in postcolonial Indonesia. It contends that, unlike Theravāda Buddhist‐majority nations in mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's lack of a patriarchal monastic authority allowed Buddhist women, like Parwati Soepangat, to emerge ...
Jack Meng‐Tat Chia
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Ostium, 2016 The paper shows connection between the cultivation of attention in Buddhist meditation vipassanā and the phenomenological theory of affectivity. At first, it shortly describes the way how the praxis of meditation achieves progress of mindfulness.
Jan Puc
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