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Silence in Shamatha, transcendental, and stillness meditation: An evidence synthesis based on expert texts
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명TJ Woods, JM Windt, O Carter
- 학회/출판사/기관명Frontiers Media S.A.
- 출판년도2020
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Frontiers in psychology
- 발행사항
- ISBN/ISSN16641078
- 소개/요약Shamatha is a Tibetan Buddhist practice2. The Shamatha meditator cultivates attention on a meditation object, and then at a very advanced stage releases the object and enters the contentless experience (Wallace, 2006a). According to TM experts, the TM technique formed part of the Vedic tradition of ancient India (Shear, 2006c, pp. 23–24; Pearson, 2013, p. 397; Roth, 2018, p. 38; cf. Williamson, 2010, p. 86). Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is said to have revived the technique in the 1950s, distilling it from the wider set of traditional Vedic practices and understandings (Shear, 2006c, pp. 24, 47; Rosenthal, 2011/2012, p. 4; Pearson, 2013, pp. 28, 44, 397, 437). The TM meditator repeats a mantra silently in their mind, and this is said to initiate a movement toward and into the contentless experience where awareness of the mantra is lost (Faber et al., 2017). Stillness Meditation was developed by an Australian psychiatrist, Ainslie Meares, in the 1960s (Meares, 1967/1968; McKinnon, 1983/2016). The Stillness Meditation practitioner gives up the effort of doing anything, beyond maintaining the meditation posture, and this is said to lead to the contentless experience.
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