Transcendental Meditation

were introduced to Japan. In 805, the Tendai sect came to be which branched off more important sects. The Jodo sect was founded by Honen. This sect was popular because it was attainable by all classes of people. Its simple theories attracted most of their followers. The principle is that when believing in the Buddha then a prosperous life will follow. The Zen sect was founded in 1175 and was introduced from China. The sect was found most popular by military classes because of the…

In my opinion, mindfulness meditation, both formal and unformal, is an innocuous counseling approach one could use with those afflicted with depression and/or anxiety, and I feel it would be prudent for me as a future therapist to develop. According to our book, formal training in meditation gives individuals that are depressed the potential to experience positive emotions by reducing rumination and psychological distress enabling them to appreciate pleasant everyday occurrences and improving…

Mindfulness is the instinctive condition of our judgment: paying attention, being circumspect, non-overcritical, relaxed, and opened. Mindfulness enable us to be aware of our present moment and environment, and enables us to assimilate from our experience and gaining the strength of letting go our regrets and reflection of the past, and our worries about the future. We usher in awareness to our experience in the current moment. A research study done by (Mrazek et al., 2012) stated that ‘‘when…

Doing time, Doing Vipassana are forced into minimum or no-wage labor, they rely on mediation to relieve themselves of the burden of their incarceration in such a capitalistic system. Many of the inmates of people of color, but it shows that Buddhist meditation techniques provide a spiritual and mental counter to the materialism of capitalism, which got many of these prisoners into the prison system. The film Dhamma Brothers also defines the impact of vipassana mediation on four incarcerated…

personality disorder [and] provides training in mindfulness meditation to foster improvements in affect tolerance” (Bishop et al., 2004). “Acceptance and Cognitive Therapy (ACT)…integrates the core mindfulness concepts of awareness and acceptance with cognitive behavioral principles,”…

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a documentary that explores the use of a meditation technique named Vipassana in one of India’s most harshest prisons as a means of rehabilitation for the prisoners. The filmmakers spent a lot of time inside the Tihar Central prison in New Delhi where they interviewed the inmates and the jail officers along with the woman who introduced the Vipassana meditation technique to the prison, a woman named Kiran Bedi, a former General of Prisons in India. The film…

In this paper, I will explain Rene Descartes’ response from his Sixth Meditation to his dreaming argument from the First Meditation. Descartes’ Meditations are the processes of thinking that he attempted to create a stronger basis for our ways of thinking by doubting on various beliefs that are skeptical. In his Sixth Meditation, Descartes found an answer to his doubt and used that to refute his first premise of the dreaming argument. He knew that he could actually tell the different whether he…

Descartes is trying to prove the existence of God, and the reason he is doing so he can further try to prove the existence of everything else. He did so by going through a series of meditations. In his fifth meditation Descartes said that the mind and the body are two distinct substances. His main premise was Cogito Ergo Sum which means I think therefore I am. With Cogito Ergo Sum he is certain of his existence. He differentiates understanding a concept and imagination, then goes onto say that…

René Descartes’ dream argument supports his overarching argument for hyperbolic doubt, described in his Meditations on First Philosophy. The dream argument questions one’s perceptions, conscious and unconscious, and how one determines what is true and what is false. He does this by comparing experiences while awake or dreaming. Descartes continues on that since one also cannot tell the difference between what is a dream and what is real life, our perceptions could overall be false, and “assumes…

In Descartes’ Meditations and John Pollock’s Brain in a Vat share some similarities, these similarities that include versions of the evil demon theory the narrator witnesses’ surgeons in a laboratory removing a man named Harry’s brain from his body and placing it in a vat…