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See, for example, the page on the four applications of mindfulness at Rigpa Wiki. The arguments against merger are very strong and the arguments in favor are weak. Should I go ahead and remove the merger template? Porelbiencomun 19:57, 26 April 2013 (UTC) Opposed. Mindfulness and the foundations practices are not the same thing, and deserve ...
Buddhist karma and karmic reincarnation are feared to potentially lead to fatalism and victim blaming. Paul Edwards says that karma does not provide a guide to action. Whitley Kaufman, in his 2014 book, cross-examines that there is a taut relationship between karma and free will and that if karma existed, then evil would not exist because all victims of evil just get "deserved". [1]
Contemporary Insight Meditation teachers identify the five hindrances as obstacles to mindfulness meditation. Within the Mahayana tradition, the five hindrances are obstacles to samadhi. They are part of the two types of obstructions (Sanskrit: āvaraṇa), i.e. the obstacles to Buddhahood.
Śaṅkara elaborates on these arguments against various schools of Buddhism, partly presenting refutations which were already standard in his time, and partly offering his own objections. [ 77 ] Śaṅkara's original contribution in explaining the difference between Advaita and Buddhism was his "argument for identity" and the "argument for the ...
The prohibition on killing had motivated early Buddhists to form a stance against animal sacrifice, a common religious ritual practice in ancient India. [38] [39] According to the Pāli Canon, however, early Buddhists did not adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. [26] [39] In Early Buddhist Texts, the role of the five precepts gradually develops.
One argument Elitzur makes in favor of dualism is an argument from bafflement. According to Elitzur, a conscious being can conceive of a P-zombie version of his/herself. However, a P-zombie cannot conceive of a version of itself that lacks corresponding qualia. [8] In his 1996 book The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers questioned interactionism.
Becoming the first former UK prime minister to support the bid to legalise assisted dying, Lord David Cameron countered that “‘thin end of the wedge’ arguments can be used against almost ...
Ānāpānasati (Pali; Sanskrit: ānāpānasmṛti; Chinese: 安那般那; Pīnyīn: ānnàbānnà; Sinhala: ආනා පානා සති), meaning "mindfulness of breathing" ("sati" means mindfulness; "ānāpāna" refers to inhalation and exhalation), is a form of Buddhist meditation now common to the Tibetan, Zen, Tiantai, and Theravada ...