Search results for "Contemplation"
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Nature Inspired Scenes for Guided Mindfulness Training: Presence, Perceived Restorativeness and Meditation Depth
2019
Practicing mindfulness-based stress reeducation and other contemplative practices generates a number of health and human performance benefits. However, limited access to qualified training and practice support, as well as poor practice environments, makes it difficult to sustain the habits necessary to develop the attentional regulation skills needed to benefit from mindfulness. In this paper, we report on our research, which focuses on developing immersive environments to support mindfulness-based stress reduction practices. We specifically look at how the design of a virtual environment can foster a restorative experience, if that restorative experience is associated with the depth of the…
La rencontre entre Thérèse d'Avila et Francisco de Osuna autour du Recueillement: des "Abécédaires spirituels" au "Livre des Demeures"
2015
International audience; A l’occasion de cette communication, je me propose d’aborder le thème de la rencontre entre Thérèse d’Avila et un de ses maîtres spirituels indirects, le Franciscain andalou Francisco de Osuna. C’est à travers la lecture du Troisième Abécédaire spirituel (1527) ―ouvrage rédigé dans un contexte polémique marqué par la récente condamnation de l’illuminisme par l’Inquisition de Tolède (1525)― que la jeune Thérèse s’est initiée en 1538 à l’oraison de Recueillement. Après une présentation rapide de la vie et de l’œuvre prolifique ―Abécédaires castillans et sermonnaires latins― de ce maître spirituel et prédicateur très apprécié au XVIème siècle, je tâcherai de donner une …
The ‘Perfected System of Criticism’: Schopenhauer's Initial Disagreements with Kant
2012
AbstractI would like to know who of mycontemporaries should be more competent inKantian philosophy than me.(Schopenhauer in a letter to Rosenkranz and Schubert, 18371)In this paper the attempt is made to show how Schopenhauer's critique of Kant leads from initial disagreements to a fundamental modification, even a new formation, of the Kantian concepts of understanding, reason, imagination, perception, idea and thing-in-itself. The starting point and the core of his critique is the demand for the appreciation of intuitive knowledge which is apart from and independent of reason. The intuitive knowledge goes back to images and its highest form is aesthetic contemplation. Without a participati…
Transnational monasteries: The economic performance of cloistered women
2015
Monastery research not only throws light on little-known aspects of Christianity in Africa, but also can make an important contribution to the understanding of the processes of social change and debates on globalization in African societies. The contemplative orders develop alternative economic forms, interact with their local environment, and build transnational networks or integrate into them. They emerge as local and transnational actors, change in the course of these processes, and contribute to the social change in the societies in which they participate. This interaction is the focus of the article, which is based on the analysis of a case study, a Benedictine abbey in Koubri, near t…
Conclusion: Discourses and Dreams on Becoming
2019
The contents in the chapters in this book have shown how ECEC institutions are both globally linked and locally constructed within networks of powers, discourses, philosophies, paradoxes and practices. The kinds of ‘becoming(s)’ that arise for these young children as a consequence are different – in an increasingly globalised world, we think, these are of great significance in thinking about the present and future realities that are posed accordingly. Thus, with this concluding chapter, we seek to address existing and future challenges, dreams and opportunities in contemplation of a future that we can only imagine, in consideration of the practices and discourses that structure becoming(s) …
Kontemplativ, handlingsrettet spiritualitet - Stille stund og ledelse i Oxfordbevegelsen belyst ved nedtegnelser fra Erling Wikborg
2014
Author's version of an article in the journal: Teologisk tidsskrift. Also available from the publisher at: http://www.idunn.no/tt/2014/04/kontemplativ_handlingsrettet_spiritualitet_-_stille_stund_ Contemplation and belief in guidance from God had a distinct design in the international ecumenical revival the Oxford Group which gained great support in the interwar period. In this movement, contemplation, called quiet time, was focused on intention and action in order to grasp and carry out God’s guidance. The article examines teaching about and practice of quiet time and guidance in the Oxford Group and shows how these phenomena relate to a broader historical context within Christianity. Note…
Défense du « Recueillement » face à l’ « Abandon » à travers le «Quatrième Abécédaire spirituel» de Francisco de Osuna (1530) : les contours de l’int…
2018
International audience; Si le XIX e est sans aucun doute le siècle de « la consécration de l'intime », pour reprendre l'expression de Françoise Simonet-Tenant 1 , le terme « intime » est lui bien antérieur. L'adjectif, du superlatif latin intimus et qui signifie « ce qu'il y a de plus intérieur », est déjà courant au XIV e dans le champ de la littérature religieuse en latin et s'étend rapidement aux langues vernaculaires pour inonder la littérature spirituelle en langue vulgaire-que ce soit en français ou en espagnol. Toutefois, pour bien comprendre la portée de l'adjectif « intimus » dans la prose religieuse, il nous faut revenir au sens que lui confère Saint Augustin lorsque, au livre III…
La question du bonheur dans l'oeuvre de Christian Bobin
2012
This thesis looks at happiness as perceived and shown in Christian Bobin's works. For this purpose, we used the approach of Bachelard to define Bobin’s symbolic element of happiness: the flame. To deal with the problem of time and its complexity, involved in our main problem, we applied theories of Bachelard, Bergson and those of modern physics, as well as the “logic of the contradictory” (of Lupasco). The images associated with intellect are analyzed based on Henry Corbin's works and are defined as “image- body-reality”. They testify of a mysticism which tends to “geopoetic” and the Unity of the universe. A language of “anima / animus” and a process of production of meaning, “the helix of …
Open-air Conservation of Ruins and the Concept of “Non-Dislocation”
2012
Most of the on-going debate is about “how” to protect archaeological ruins, whilst at the same time allowing the general public to enjoy them. Today it is clear how important it is, from the actual planning stages of excavations, to interact with experts from other disciplines, who are working on their own findings and offering them up for collective enjoyment. Whatever might be feasible for an indoor museum is not always feasible with an architectonic ruin, as regards both presenting objects with explicative apparatus that determines their significance, and exploring them in a new way when interpretations change or new ideologies are introduced. First of all, conserving excavations is the …
Teologia między słowem i milczeniem
2019
Człowiek jako istota rozumna i wolna, ze swej natury może i powinien docierać do prawdy, trwać przez niej i całe swoje życie opierać na prawdzie. Prawda jest „miejscem spotkania” rozumu i wiary, które tworzą między sobą głęboką i nierozerwalną jedność, uznając jednocześnie swoją autonomiczność w dochodzeniu do prawdy. Bogata historia dorobku ludzkiego intelektu świadczy o tym, że „człowiek w ciągu stuleci przebył pewną drogę, która prowadziła go stopniowo do spotkania z prawdą i do zmierzenia się z nią” (FR 1). Dzięki swej osobowej naturze, człowiek szuka prawdy ponadempirycznej, mającej wymiar egzystencjalny, związany z kontekstem jego życia. Właśnie w kontekście prawdy rozum i wiara nie p…