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consciousness where the mind is not aware of anything in particular. During mediation, breathing slows and practitioners tend to p...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
being and his conviction that he is in a certain location, dressed in a certain way, but then goes on to compare his situation wit...
apply to all of them. First, in the Buddhist tradition, there is no charge for any part of the program. Hosts not only do not ch...
In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...
The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...
This 3 page paper gives an explanation of how meditation can help healing. This paper includes the practice of meditation for heal...
In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....
In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...
beginning of all things--the Buddha. And for those in a hurry --there developed the satori-- or sudden enlightenment. It was often...
components of our existence. From a historical perspective meditation has played a tremendously important role even in the United...
the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...
the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
at stress and productivity specifically will draw on the other relayed information. II. What is Stress? According to the Tex...
leads to the meditative absorptions states known as jhana (Novak, 1989). The second, insight meditation, contemplates the "true n...
basis, he reports that it enabled him to achieve a state that can only be described as transcendence, as TM, at this point in his ...
approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...
while remaining completely conscious" (Religion, 2001). When the meditator reaches the fourth stage, he has abandoned "any sense o...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
clutter and entanglements with regular meditation is one of the most effective ways to maintain a healthy existence. "The basis o...
the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...
A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...
acknowledges that this is somewhat of a surprise, given that, since the 17th century, mysticism, science and healing have gone in ...
parables, or a book of varied quotes. As an example, in the Sixth Book he notes, "Do not ever conceive anything impossible to ma...