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Vedanta and Vibrating Particles: One Truth, Two Languages

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June 28, 2025 0

In India, spirituality is not just about rituals or temples — it’s deeply rooted in…

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The 5 Most Misunderstood Teachings of Buddha ! Buddha Never Said Life is Suffering.

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June 24, 2025 0

Buddhism, with its serene imagery and profound philosophy, has captivated millions worldwide. Yet, like any…

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• When the Corpses Rise: Some Tibetan Ro Langs Stories
  June 25, 2025 by Per-Arne Berglie
  In the evening I crossed the river and started for home. Then I saw the corpse running on the other side of the river. It was completely naked, but carried its belt in one hand and its boots in the other. Then I saw a wolf coming after it, felling it to the ground.
• Dose–response Relationship of Reported Lifetime Meditation Practice With Mental Health and Wellbeing: A Cross-Sectional Study
  June 20, 2025 by Nicholas Bowles
  Historical meditation practice (accumulated lifetime hours) was significantly associated with favorable psychological outcomes.
• World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination
  June 19, 2025 by Shannon Mattern
  How did a packaging company get into the publishing business — into the containment and distribution of information? How were geographic imaginations changed in the process?
• Phenomenological Fingerprints of Four Meditations: Differential State Changes in Affect, Mind-Wandering, Meta-Cognition, and Interoception Before and After Daily Practice Across 9 Months of Training
  June 19, 2025 by Bethany E. Kok
  body scan led to the greatest state increase in interoceptive awareness and the greatest decrease in thought content, loving-kindness meditation led to the greatest increase in feelings of warmth and positive thoughts about others, and observing-thought meditation led to the greatest increase in meta-cognitive awareness.
• The Two Arrows of Pain: Mechanisms of Pain Related to Meditation and Mental States of Aversion and Identification
  June 19, 2025 by Valentina Nicolardi
  the evidence about the causal influences of identification on pain highlights a self-related factor of relevance in pain experiences that can be modulated by mindfulness.
• Which Meditation Technique for Whom?: An Experimental Single-Case Study Comparing Concentrative, Humming, Observing-Thoughts, and Walking Meditation
  June 17, 2025 by Karin Matko
  Participants in the concentration condition benefitted more if they had a high motivation to develop certain skills and a low motivation to seek spiritual experiences. Participants practicing humming showed greater treatment gains if they had a motivation to [relax]. In contrast, participants practicing observing thoughts benefitted more if they sought spiritual experiences and less if […]
• Trends and Developments in Mindfulness Research over 55 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications Indexed in Web of Science
  June 16, 2025 by Anuradha Baminiwatta
  The most frequently co-occurring keywords were meditation, depression, stress, and anxiety. Co-citation analysis of the early period (1966–2015) revealed how scholarly work on spiritual themes inspired early mindfulness research. Recent trends (2016–2021) revealed a rising interest in mechanisms and moderators, long-term meditators, neuroscientific studies, and smartphone/online delivery of interventions.
• The Divinity of the Dalai Lama and its Scriptural Sources: A Study in Tibetan Political Theology
  June 15, 2025 by Ian MacCormack
  The fifth Dalai Lama was figured as the state’s absolute ruler on the basis of a power in excess of his own person. In technical terms, he was the latest in a rebirth line of Avalokiteśvara, here assuming the novel identity of a “renunciate king” or vow-bound sovereign.
• The Mortality of the Dalai Lama and its Scriptural Sources: More on Tibetan Political Theology
  June 15, 2025 by Ian MacCormack
  The prospect of embodied divinity was not uncommon in Tibetan discourse and practice in general. The point is that this choice of terms forces the issue. To assert a human god’s ongoing karmic dependency is to define divinity and mortality in terms that are direct inversions of one another.
• The Individual and His Environment: A Central Thai Outlook
  June 15, 2025 by Jack Bilmes
  The influence of สิ่งแวดล้อม¹ are directed out from the individual to his environment; the influence of สิ่งแวดล้อม² are directed inward from the environment to the individual.