We are told that we can attain clear and distinct ideas of such things as God and the human mind (Meditation 4, 53).
Tibetan Buddhists, for example, regard the mandala (Sanskrit: "circle") diagram as a collection point of universal forces, accessible to humans by meditation.
Music education and human flourishing: a meditation on democratic origins.
His research is broadly focused on the neural bases of emotion and emotional style and methods to promote human flourishing including meditation and related contemplative practices.
Dr. Davidson is generally regarded as a leading scientific expert on the neural bases of emotion and on methods to promote human flourishing, including meditation and related contemplative practices.
In these respects Zhu differed from the eminent contemporary neo-Confucian Lu Jiuyuan, who saw no distinction between natural law and vital energy and believed in human perfectability through meditation.
How is there so much variation in a practice meant to better the human race through meditation, proper nutrition, and physical rehabilitation?
Carol Reed's follow-up to The Third Man is an existential meditation on human corruption.
That story edges toward sentimentality, then veers into something stranger: an affecting meditation on human intimacy.
Organized by Marc-Olivier Wahler, it reads as a rueful meditation on human isolation.
