Day: November 25, 2024

@article{analayo2023-function-of-silence-in-agama, title={{T}he {F}unction of {S}ilence in \textit{Āgama} {L}iterature}, author={Bhikkhu Anālayo}, publisher={Soka Gokkai International}, address={Tokyo}, year=2023, month=mar, journal={The Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology}, volume=26, pages={67--76}, keywords={hermeneutics,silence,koan}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/5-personen/analayo/functionsilence.pdf} } Source link

… this article explores how the early Buddhist teaching can challenge and enrich how we think of persons and bodies in relation to other beings and environments. Through a discussion of the powerful emotion of fear and the importance of vulnerability, the article develops thoughts on how Buddhist emotional practices as practices of care can inspire new approaches in today’s times of escalating ecological crisis and acute vulnerability in coexisting and intersecting human and nonhuman pluriworlds. Source link

… in Huayan philosophy in particular the notion of interconnectedness or interdependence arose, according to which all phenomena relate to each other in one way or another. Despite its traction in the contemporary setting, this notion needs to be recognized as a later development that is by no means identical with the basic Buddhist teaching on dependent arising. Source link

… meditation may have salutary effects on telomere length by reducing cognitive stress and stress arousal and increasing positive states of mind and hormonal factors that may promote telomere maintenance. Aspects of this model are currently being tested in ongoing trials of mindfulness meditation. Source link