Meditation, the process by which human consciousness reaches deeper states of awareness
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Victor Turner Prize: Alan Klima for The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand and Hugh Raffles for In Amazonia: A Natural History
Accepted instances include a brief take-off on Christina Rossetti's long poem "Goblin Market" (the complete text is of course included), a free-verse meditation dovetailing with the "Holy Sonnet XIV" by John Donne, and an English-language invention on Catullus' erotic poem "Number 51" (submitted in the original Latin), itself inspired by Sappho's Ancient Greek (Aeolic) fragment Sappho 31.
Referring to the constitution Dei Verbum the document emphasizes that all Christian prayer and meditation should "proceeds to converge on Christ" and be guided by the gift of the Holy Spirit.
In 1973, attempting to locate the original source of meditation, Bruce traveled to India where he underwent rigorous daily training in Pranayama, Hatha yoga, Raja yoga and Tantra with many Gurus, experiencing what in the east is known as “Kundalini Shakti”.
This was a very witty statement using the story of the Buddhist monk Daruma Daishi who faced a wall in China's Shaolin Monastery and after doing zen meditation for nine years, achieved enlightenment.
Dhyāna focuses on mental and spiritual development through meditation and min zin.
Among his best known paintings are The Decapitation of St John the Baptist (1881), in the Art Institute of Chicago; Prayer (1884), The Return of the Flock, and Meditation.
He studied qigong, philosophy, meditation, and internal martial arts with Taoist master Kwan Saihung for thirteen years, and studied with two other masters before that.
The movement has expanded branches to over eighteen countries worldwide and is promoted via a Buddhist satellite network or Dhamma Media Channel (DMC.TV) with 24 hour-a-day Dharma and meditation teachings broadcast to worldwide.
His book Ejercitatorio de la vida espiritual, i.e. "exercises for the spiritual life" was published at Montserrat in 1500 and was an important book on formal prayer and Christian meditation which influenced Saint Ignatius of Loyola, becoming one of the primary sources for his Spiritual exercises.
Great Auspicious Beauty, one of Seventeen Tantras of Menngagde, styles of meditation and ritual which arose in India around fifth century; Great Auspicious Beauty is described as "teaching how to establish nature of awareness and how to identify basis of confusion and unmistaken wisdom"
At November 11, 2012 the quinquennial anniversary of the centre of meditation was celebrated with the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg Dr. Thomas Löhr and a lecture by the journalist and theologian Klaus Hofmeister of the Hessischer Rundfunk.
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August 2007 the diocese Limburg intended the church on instruction of former bishop Franz Kamphaus to the center for Christian meditation and spirituality.
On November 28, 2003, Monteiro was conferred the "Lifting Up The World With A Oneness-Heart" lifetime achievement Award by Sri Chinmoy, who is the leader of the interfaith Peace Meditation at the UN (since 1970) and also the leader of the International Peace Centre.
Blofeld became a pupil of Hsu Yun but actually received training in Chan (Zen) meditation from Hsu Yun's pupils at a monastery near Kunming, Yunnan.
Influences on his life and teaching include Unity Church, est, the Landmark Forum, yoga and meditation; as well as the Anonymous fellowships and the work of Bill W.
In Zen Buddhism, the keisaku (Japanese: 警策, Chinese: 香板, xiāng bǎn; kyōsaku in the Soto school) is a flat wooden stick or slat used during periods of meditation to remedy sleepiness or lapses of concentration.
One belongs to the Vethathiri Maharishi's Temple of Consciousnes and the other to the Maithreyi centre.Many people visit these two places for natural cure and meditation.
(2001) The Physiological Correlates of Kundalini Yoga Meditation: A Study of a Yoga Master, Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback, Jun 2001; 26(2): 147 - 53, PubMed Abstract PMID 11480165.
He was well versed in Eastern-influenced religious practices, informing Stanislavski about yoga, meditation and the nature of Prana.
Luang Por Mun Bhuridatta in Udon Thani who taught him the pursuance of a secluded life and the practice of meditation and Dhamma in the jungles.
Prem Rawat (born 1957), teacher of a meditation practice he calls Knowledge
Specific works include Tony Scott's Music for Zen Meditation (1964), Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mantra (1970), Hymnen (1966–67), Stimmung (1968), and Aus den sieben Tagen (1968), Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time (1941), and Ben Johnston, whose Visions and Spells (a realization of Vigil (1976)), requires a meditation period prior to performance.
They also practice meditation, spiritual reading and visits to the Blessed Sacrament.
Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi (2005) Muraqaba: The Art and Science of Sufi Meditation.
Bed of nails, a device sometimes used in meditation and physics demonstrations
A few of the meditation centres in and around Najafgarh are Radha Swami Satsang Beas at Ranaji Enclave & Dindarpur, Ashram of Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu, Osho Dham (of Guru Rajneesh), Ashram of Sudhanshu Ji Maharaj at Bakkarwala, and Nirmal Dham of Nirmala Devi.
In 1973 a similar large group of students joined him in New Zealand on Lake Rotoiti for a three-month meditation retreat.
Neigong, also spelled nei kung, neigung, or nae gong, refers to any of a set of Chinese breathing, meditation and spiritual practice disciplines associated with Daoism and especially the Chinese martial arts.
It welcomes foreign visitors to participate in a Sunday morning Zazen meditation session, or even to stay overnight.
It was built on the grounds of the Kalki Bhagavan ashram at an estimated cost of $75 million, and is claimed to be the largest pillar-less meditation hall in Asia.
His musicals include Kink! a musical about 1950's pin-up icon Bettie Page,The Adventures of Wanda & Jack, an alt-country meditation on life on the road, written with partner Michele Brown, and Songs for a Dark Lady, re-assembling the words of William Shakespeare into a one-man musical about Shakespeare's tortured relationship with his muse, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets.
There is a mosaic of Jesus seated in a meditation pose above a lotus like an Indian holy man.
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana released in 1997 documented a large scale meditation program at Tihar Prisons in India with over a thousand inmates.
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She introduced yoga and large scale meditation programs at that prison and these programs were filmed and released as the documentary Doing Time, Doing Vipassana.
Puran Bair has worked with Dr. Herbert Benson and other researchers to document the physiological changes that occur during the different stages of meditation, including metabolism, heart rhythm, brain waves, light emission and electromagnetism.
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In Living from the Heart Puran Bair introduces Heart Rhythm Meditation (HRM); the method is based on meditation techniques gleaned from Sufi, Hebrew, and Christian sources.
The Relaxation Response, a term coined by Herbert Benson and a book of the same name in which he describes his research into the effects of meditation
In 1926 he collaborated with Nyogen Senzaki, a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk, in opening the first official Zen meditation hall (zendo) in San Francisco.
The meditation center averaged approximately 500 monks per biannual retreat, which was unheard of since the days of Hui Neng and Ma Tzu.
No benefits are gained by where and to which family the person is born to – All have to undertake the rigours of Simran (meditation) and Sewa (selfless service) to progress spiritually.
Gilligan also developed a new therapy, known as self-relations psychotherapy, using ideas from Ericksonian, Aikido, Buddhism, meditation, and the performance arts.
In 1986, at the First International Yog Conference in New Delhi, Swami Shyam was awarded the Yog Shiromani Award by the President of India, Giani Zail Singh, for his work in the field of meditation and Self Realization and the 1974 Integrity Award presented by Geoff Stirling on behalf of Apache Communications in Gander, Newfoundland.
The Dhamma Brothers has been compared with another documentary, Doing Time, Doing Vipassana (released in 1997), which documented a large scale meditation program at Tihar Prisons in India with over a thousand inmates using the same meditation retreat format.
As one first enters the Garden, one walks through a dry Zen meditation garden (Karesansui) containing a large grass-covered mound, representing Tortoise Island, a symbol of longevity, and a Three Buddhas arrangement of stones.
Goleman quickly covers contemporary research on meditation and also research on relaxation.
Meditation played a very important role in the life and teachings of Vivekananda.
This is observed in various centres of Ramakrishna Math and Mission in a traditional Hindu manner which includes mangalarati, special worship, homa (fire-ritual), meditation, devotional songs, religious discourses, sandhyarati (versper service in the evenings), and so on.
In contemporary China, the term "Chán" (禪), being simply one of many terms for forms of meditation, is not limited to the Chán school alone.