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Meditative postures or meditation seats are the body positions or asanas, usually sitting but also sometimes standing or reclining, used to facilitate...

repertoire of Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism. Since the 19th century, Asian meditative techniques have spread to other cultures where they have also found application...

Varieties of the Meditative Experience is a 1977 book by American psychologist Daniel Goleman. It was republished under the title The Meditative Mind in 1988...

Meditative Story is a podcast that combines first-person storytelling, mindfulness prompts and original cinematic music, to create a unique listening experience...

Meditative poetry combines the religious practice of meditation with verse. Buddhist and Hindu writers have developed extensive theories and phase models...

doctrinal context. It is either an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience. In Theravāda Buddhism...

Phowa (Tibetan: འཕོ་བ་, Wylie: 'pho ba, Sanskrit: saṃkrānti[citation needed]) is a tantric practice found in both Hinduism and Buddhism. It may be described...

"tranquility of the mind"; "tranquillity of awareness"; "serenity"; "calm"; "meditative calm"; or "quietude of the heart." The Tibetan term for samatha is ཞི་གནས་...

Daniel Goleman Thubten Chodron Martine Batchelor Stephen Batchelor Works The Varieties of the Meditative Experience Related Meditation and pain Category...

commentators to refer to some type of meditative practice. Some scholars see Merkavah-Heichalot mysticism as using meditative methods, built around the biblical...

literature on western Alchemy. Neidan is part of the Chinese alchemical meditative tradition that is said to have been separated into internal and external...

Monochromatic painting has played a significant role in modern and contemporary Western visual art, originating with the early 20th-century European avant-gardes...

Udraka Ramaputra), learning meditation and philosophy, particularly the meditative attainment of "the sphere of nothingness" from the former, and "the sphere...

17th century. He is believed to have chosen to be enshrined alive in a meditative state in front of his disciples at the site of the temple. Thousands of...

artwork that has survived is damaged and they show some overlap with meditative Buddha-related artwork, but the presence of Shiva's trident and phallic...

5th century CE, and variations of the principles developed over time: A meditative means of discovering dysfunctional perception and cognition, as well as...

the mind that includes ethical training and kindness toward others, and meditative practices such as sense restraint, mindfulness, dhyana (meditation proper)...

states of jhāna called rūpa jhāna ("form jhāna"), and four additional meditative attainments called arūpa ("without form"). Meditation and contemplation...

right mindfulness, and right samadhi ('meditative absorption or union'; alternatively, equanimous meditative awareness). In early Buddhism, these practices...

the essential nature of Mary's heavenly Assumption or Dormition and her meditative role. It was necessary that the body of the one who preserved her virginity...