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Transcending Daily Life Through Meditation

In one page this paper examines how daily life can be transcended through meditation with the Buddhist example of Prince Siddharth...

Evaluating Childbirth Pain Management Alternative Proposal

drugs. In reality, pain management in labor delivery can include not only pharmacological approaches but also behavioral approach...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

Daily Living Through Zen Buddhism

karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...

Theories on Stress and How It May Be Treated

the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...

Reviewing 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

Meditation Types

while remaining completely conscious" (Religion, 2001). When the meditator reaches the fourth stage, he has abandoned "any sense o...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

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...

Productivity and Stress in the Workplace

at stress and productivity specifically will draw on the other relayed information. II. What is Stress? According to the Tex...

Augustine, Aurelius And Guibert

Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...

Disease Treatment Through Alternative and Holistic Medicine Approaches

approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...

Analyzing Universal Doubt

known. Basically, Descartes questions whether or not someone is dreaming. If one is dreaming, they sometimes believe that they are...

Meditation on Dying by Robert Nozick

to be" (Nozick 22). After first acknowledging that connections with others are crucial throughout life and comforting at its end...

States of Consciousness

is indicative of REM sleep. If one has reached Stage IV, it is indicative that one will shortly be entering the REM stage where d...

Modalities of Self Care and Holistic Nursing

help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...

PSYCHOLOGY AND STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

acknowledges that this is somewhat of a surprise, given that, since the 17th century, mysticism, science and healing have gone in ...

Goal of Meditation in the Buddhist Tradition

leads to the meditative absorptions states known as jhana (Novak, 1989). The second, insight meditation, contemplates the "true n...

Savannah, Tybee Island and Meditation

demands of the world, which are often overwhelming, and get back in touch with their inner selves. This paper is not a "how to" es...

Reaction Paper to Rosenthal's Transcendence and Healing

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 ...

Sexuality and Gender in David Henry Hwang’s Madame Butterfly

roles and how to identify themselves accordingly (Warmoth). Through experience, interaction, and acculturation, they develop perc...

Herman Daly's Beyond Growth

economic theory; operational policy; national accounts; population; international trade; pioneers in the field; and ethics and rel...

A Review of Beyond Growth by Herman Daly

faces limits and that is unthinkable" (Daly, 1997, p. 34). And he also rejects the idea that its going to be possible to replace ...

Steady State Economy According to Rene Girard and Beyond Growth by Herman Daly

Sustainable Development A. Chapter 4, "Operationalizing Sustainable Development by Investing in Natural Capital" - defines incom...

Mechanical Philosophy's Changes and Important Elements

dominated by Aristotelianism (McMullen, 2002). Due to the dominance of Aristotelianism, the idea of mechanical philosophy did not...

Rene Fortunato's Film The Power of the General

One is not expressly privy to the formative influences in his life, but the directors suppositions are obvious. Those that Trujill...

Surrealism

The writer discusses the artistic school known as surrealism and the characteristics of this form, as well as its influence. The w...

Children and Social Attachment Issues

as a baby," (Harmon, 7, 2001), which should serve to remind us that "infants and toddlers are part of relationships and that to un...

Act Two, Scene Two of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

to address the illusions that nobody else was originally able to see. HAMLETS PSYCHE Indeed, Hamlet was at the end of...

Knowledge of Humanity, Empiricism vs. Rationalism

is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...