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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 ...
components of our existence. From a historical perspective meditation has played a tremendously important role even in the United...
In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...
In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....
This 3 page paper gives an explanation of how meditation can help healing. This paper includes the practice of meditation for heal...
beginning of all things--the Buddha. And for those in a hurry --there developed the satori-- or sudden enlightenment. It was often...
the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...
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 ...
at stress and productivity specifically will draw on the other relayed information. II. What is Stress? According to the Tex...
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 ...
leads to the meditative absorptions states known as jhana (Novak, 1989). The second, insight meditation, contemplates the "true n...
to be" (Nozick 22). After first acknowledging that connections with others are crucial throughout life and comforting at its end...
really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...
known. Basically, Descartes questions whether or not someone is dreaming. If one is dreaming, they sometimes believe that they are...
be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...
at the moment to meet our destiny will be available to us. It is at this point that we alter our relationship with the future. W...
you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...
He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...
In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...
In fourteen pages this report considers meditation practices in an assessment of its spiritual impact, benefits, and effectiveness...
In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...
there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...
thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....