Good sleep gets harder as we age, but mindfulness could help
Jo Abbott, Swinburne University of Technology
and Imogen Rehm,
Swinburne University of
Technology
Monday, 29 February 2016
Monday, 22 February 2016
Thanissaro Bhikkhu : We are not one
http://www.tricycle.com/feature/we-are-not-one
We Are Not One
Interdependence is not what you (and many others) may think.
Paticcasamuppada by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
http://www.dhammatalks.net/Books6/Bhikkhu_Buddhadasa_Paticcasamuppada.htm
The doctrine of paticcasamuppada [dependent origination] taught by the Buddha is profound; consequently, majority of people cannot understand the law of dependent origination. Nonetheless, it is as valid today as it was when the Buddha explained the doctrine to Ven. Ananda some 2500 years ago. The doctrine of dependent origination, the core of Buddhism, is so difficult to comprehend that people commit serious errors in understanding it, and thereby distort the Buddha Dhamma. Buddhadasa Bhikkhu reveals the root of the distortions, and carefully scrutinizes and analyzes it in the book. The root of the distortions may be traced back to the primitive Buddhism period, but the earliest relevant record can be found in Buddhaghosa's essay written some 1500 years ago.
Paticcasamuppada : Practical Dependent Origination
by Buddhadasa BhikkhuThe doctrine of paticcasamuppada [dependent origination] taught by the Buddha is profound; consequently, majority of people cannot understand the law of dependent origination. Nonetheless, it is as valid today as it was when the Buddha explained the doctrine to Ven. Ananda some 2500 years ago. The doctrine of dependent origination, the core of Buddhism, is so difficult to comprehend that people commit serious errors in understanding it, and thereby distort the Buddha Dhamma. Buddhadasa Bhikkhu reveals the root of the distortions, and carefully scrutinizes and analyzes it in the book. The root of the distortions may be traced back to the primitive Buddhism period, but the earliest relevant record can be found in Buddhaghosa's essay written some 1500 years ago.
ANATTĀ & REBIRTH by Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu
http://www.buddhismwithoutboundaries.com/Anatta_and_Rebirth.pdf
A talk originally addressed to students of Puget Sound University in Seattle, Washington The explanations of rebirth they had heard seemed to contradict the principle of anattā. Tan Ajahn was asked to clarify the seeming contradiction.
ANATTĀ & REBIRTH by Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu
A talk originally addressed to students of Puget Sound University in Seattle, Washington The explanations of rebirth they had heard seemed to contradict the principle of anattā. Tan Ajahn was asked to clarify the seeming contradiction.
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Ethics, culture and relativism: Some reflections on teaching medical ethics in Sri Lanka.
Ethics, culture and relativism: Some reflections on teaching medical ethics in Sri Lanka.
February 9, 2016, 5:59 pm
By S. N. Arseculeratne, R. Simpson, P. D. Premasiri, P. V. R. Kumarasiri
This paper is the first of two that set out to explore issues that arise at the interface between globalised systems of biomedicine and bioethics on the one hand and non-western traditions of medicine, healing and ethics on the other. At this interface, fundamental questions of relativism and context are in evidence. Here we offer a preliminary overview of these questions in relation to medical education in Sri Lanka and attempts by local scholars to develop curricula that incorporate indigenous traditions in ways that are both appropriate and realistic. In the paper, we argue for approaches that go beyond simply accumulating and juxtaposing knowledge of different traditions.
Friday, 5 February 2016
Monday, 1 February 2016
A selection of Mindfulness Articles
A selection of Mindfulness Articles
A
selection of Mindfulness articles
June 5, 2015
Mindfulness has lost its Buddhist roots, and it may not be doing you good
Miguel Farias,
Coventry University
and Catherine
Wikholm, University of
Surrey
The mindfulness
technique is being blindly sold and we are buying it hook line and sinker.
How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable
Zoë Krupka, La Trobe University
Mindfulness can improve living with a disability
Yoon-Suk Hwang,
Australian Catholic
University
Meditation, mindfulness and mind-emptiness
Ramesh Manocha,
University of Sydney
Mindfulness: how to be in the moment … right here, right now
Maarten Immink,
University of South
Australia
Mindfulness therapy alleviates soldiers' PTSD, but only in the short term
Ian Hickie, University of Sydney and Jane Burns, University of Melbourne
How a mindful approach to computer and smartphone use might just make you happier
Anastasia
Papazafeiropoulou, Brunel
University London and Jeremy Hunter,
Claremont Graduate
University
How mindfulness could give you the gift of a calmer Christmas
Anna Leyland,
University of Sheffield
February 13, 2015
From A to zen: mindfulness in seven days
Alessandro
R Demaio, Harvard
University
If you’re anything like me,
one thing you find really hard to do - is nothing. I mean, really - doing
nothing. Taking a moment out for yourself, meditating on life, reflecting on
your day, getting to that…
Mindfulness meditation offers help with the travails of chronic illness
Monika Merkes,
La Trobe University
‘Mindfulness’ training improves self-control for youth in jail
Approach your laptop mindfully to avoid digital overload
Anastasia
Papazafeiropoulou, Brunel
University London
When it comes to information overload, we’re like frogs in boiling water
Andy
Tattersall, University
of Sheffield
Rumination and remedy: five ways to improve your outlook
Peter
Kinderman, University of
Liverpool
January 18, 2012
Beyond spirituality: the role of meditation in mental health
Jonathan
Krygier, University of
Sydney and Andrew H Kemp,
University of Sydney
Meditation has
traditionally been associated with Eastern mysticism but science is beginning
to show that cultivating a “heightened” state of consciousness can have a major
impact on our brain, the way…
Why meditation should be taught in schools
Lea Waters, University of Melbourne
How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education
Matt Wall, Imperial College London
How science can teach us to be more relaxed
Trudi Edginton,
University of Westminster
How branding 101 can make leaders more mindful of diversity
Renée
Richardson Gosline, MIT
Sloan School of Management
May 15, 2015
Mental health momentum mustn’t give way to political expediency
Tony Warne, University of Salford and Sue McAndrew,
University of Salford
Knitting your way to a healthier, happier mind
Ian Hickie, University of Sydney and Jackie Randles,
University of Sydney
From decisions to disorders: how neuroscience is changing what we know about ourselves
Barbara
Sahakian, University of
Cambridge; Abdul Mohammed,
Linnaeus University;
Alejandro
Anton Fernandez, Polytechnic
University of Madrid; Andrea Santuy,
Cajal Institute;
Diana
Furcila, Cajal Institute;
Francesco
Cavarretta, University
of Milan, and Léon Homeyer,
University of Stuttgart
Yoga may be the missing link to stroke survivors' rehabilitation
Maarten Immink,
University of South
Australia
Mass online meditation lets you zone out in cyberspace
Sue Thomas, Bournemouth University
April 8, 2015
Students with autism need targeted attention – not a cage
Leigh Burrows,
Flinders University
A review has been announced
into school policies in Canberra after it was reported that a school was
restraining a child with Autism in a cage-like structure.
January 26, 2015
The unhealthy underside of the wellbeing agenda
Andre Spicer,
City University London
and Carl
Cederström, Stockholm
University
Last week, the 0.1% met at
World Economic Forum annual gathering in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos.
While the official excuse to go there is to discuss and shape the global agenda
– the theme dominating…
January 22, 2015
Well-being programmes in schools might be doing children more harm than good
Kathryn
Ecclestone, University
of Sheffield
Apocryphal depictions of an
unprecedented crisis in young people’s mental ill-health and their general vulnerability
have been accompanied by increasingly alarmist claims that only schools can
address…
23 January, 2016
It’s the relaxation technique of choice, popular with
employers and even the NHS. But some have found it can have
unexpected effects
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