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MindScience Academy curates a series of articles with the intention to gloss and approach the ongoing exchange between scientific research and contemplative traditions. Through such endeavor, we shall try to expand the tools at the disposal of the critical reader and researcher, without the pretense of exhausting debate, on the contrary, multiplying and hybridizing its languages. This way, our column resembles the laboratory itself; critical, enzymatic, open to surprise and transformative experience.
MSA Facco stati non ordinari
focus on july 2024

"Non-ordinary mind expressions" by Enrico Facco

The term "non-ordinary" avoids any prejudice or implicit idea of abnormality or apparent and suspicious strangeness, emphasizing instead the diversity of these conditions compared to what is conventionally admitted.
MSA Classification of jhana
focus on july 2024

Toward a Unified Account of Advanced Concentrative Absorption Meditation: A Systematic Definition and Classification of Jhāna

A fascinating example of research in the field of contemplative science, and specifically the study of advanced meditation.
MSA Tenzin Palmo
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“Cave in the Snow” - Recommended Readings

Tenzin Palmo embarked on an incredible journey: she undertook a twelve-year retreat in a secluded cave in the Himalayan mountains. At over 4,000 meters above sea level, she dedicated herself to spiritual practice and deep meditation.
MSA Tetsugen Serra misticismo e meditazione
focus on june 2024

"Mystical Realization as Poetry" by Rev. Carlo Tetsugen Serra

In my view, we can perhaps compare poetry to mystical realization and prose to meditation. Two sides of the same coin, both practicable and with interdependent values, otherwise, they would be removed from the Buddhist vision (...) of interdependence, and no less from that of cause and effect.
MSA esperienza religiosa Filoramo
focus on june 2024

"The Religious Experience in the West and the East: A Comparative Reflection" by Giovanni Filoramo

The concept of ‘religious experience’ has enjoyed varying degrees of prominence in religious studies, influenced partly by shifting interpretive trends and partly by the diverse ways in which these studies have engaged with, and been influenced by, different religious traditions.
MSA Sonam Wangchuk tre tipi di meditazione
focus on june 2024

"Three Ways of Meditation" by Ven. Sonam Wangchuk

If one wants one's mind to dwell happily, one must rely on the antidote to the conception of a self and, in this regard, one must meditate on the absence of a self.
MSA Giovanni della Croce satipattanasutta
focus on june 2024

"Catholic Mysticism in Light of the Satipatthana Sutta: The Case of 'Nothing' by Saint John of the Cross" by Claudio Colaiacomo

Both the "nothing" of John of the Cross and the Buddhist emptiness imply a detachment from material and psychological attachments. In both cases, detachment is a means to achieve a deeper understanding of reality.
MSA ISCR Padova
Consciousness and Inner Reality

Participation in the 2nd Annual ISCR Event in Padova as a First-Person Perspective

MSA samadhi yoga classico Rigopoulos
focus on june 2024

"The Samādhi of Classical Yoga" by Antonio Rigopoulos

In the technical lexicon of classical Yoga, the term samādhi, derived from the Sanskrit verbal root dhā with the prefixes sam- and ā-, literally denotes the "bringing together" of attention, its focus. It can be translated as perfect absorption, as it refers to continuously focusing attention on a specific object.
Bruno Neri ricerca UniPi
Body, Mind and Emotions

What Happens to the Brain When We Meditate: The Study by the University of Pisa Conducted at the Sera Jey Monastic University in India

A study by the University of Pisa published on Frontiers in Psychology in the Consciousness Research section investigates the neural bases of meditation activity, employing an exceptional group of volunteers: the monks of Sera-Jey, the Tibetan Monastic University in Karnataka, India, as part of an active collaboration since 2018.
MSA Robina Courtin Happiness felicita
focus on may 2024

"Unraveling Our Delusions" by Ven. Robina Courtin

We have to be facing our attachment every day, feeling the pain of it, seeing it. And then, the second we start to do that, somehow we become fulfilled, satisfied. That is what is interesting. When we start to give up being a junkie, we start to become happy. We begin to taste our own potential. As long as we continue to follow attachment, which is so deep, we will never be happy.
MSA felicità Conversano Ciacchini
focus on may 2024

"The Practice of Happiness" by Ciro Conversano and Rebecca Ciacchini

Happiness is more likely a state of mind rather than a more intense emotion, culture-dependent, dependent on the relationship with others (whether an individual or something else), and essential to an inner journey of compassion and search, a choice, and also a certain awareness of one's needs.

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