Search results for "Contemplation" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Rooted in the ancient tradition of Christian asceticism and contemplation ... prayers often involved stillness and contemplation, similar to forms of ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 11:44, 22 January 2024
- knowledge of God through prayer and contemplation, even more than his substantial ... Symeon's attitude was one of mystical contemplation, more typical ...8 KB (1,279 words) - 20:50, 17 April 2023
- the next three years. This period of contemplation culminated in the writing ... the intelligent interpretation and contemplation of which leads one, inevitably ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- at a cross-faith conference on contemplation when he touched a badly ... from their inmost selves. The way to contemplation is still the way to reality ...21 KB (3,278 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- as the Smaller Pure Land Sutra; and the Contemplation Sutra, or Visualization ... Pure Land Sutra"); and the Contemplation Sutra (Visualization ...16 KB (2,491 words) - 14:15, 27 January 2023
- could be achieved through philosophical contemplation, the highest level and ... of the one. Thus, the function of contemplation to be the process of ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- for extending the monastic teachings of contemplation and self-denial to the layperson, and taught that the purpose of the Christian life was ...6 KB (862 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- in a state where the mind rests in the contemplation of the infinite goodness ... supreme end of life is such a union, in contemplation or intellect and in intense ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- was through an intellectual ascent to the contemplation of ever higher beings, culminating in contemplation of the First Cause (God) and the temporary ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- lives dedicated to isolation and contemplation. Such discipline allows ... from the unreal through intense study and contemplation ...14 KB (2,256 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- God that is beyond human understanding is by the contemplation of these symbols. He then discusses the philosophy of these symbolic terms that appear ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- part of an ascetic lifestyle, often devoted to contemplation. The voluntary aspect has led it to be included among the counsels of perfection. ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
- Tukaram spent much of his time in contemplation and study of the works of Jnaneswar, Namdev and Eknath, famous saints of his native land. He ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- purging of the impure; illumination leading to contemplation; and nourishing perfection through contemplation. Of particular interest to twentieth-century ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- and cathedrals, a favored object of contemplation. This may partially be ... crucifix, sometimes looking at it in contemplation, or merely in front of ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- of the Guan Xin Lun (Treatise on the Contemplation of the Mind, written ... upāya; Wade Giles: fang-pien) for “contemplation of the mind,” advocating ...14 KB (2,174 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- world was not distinct from Dharma. Contemplation of poetry, art, literature or drama could lead to enlightenment, since, if done in the context ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- differed from Maimonides in emphasizing contemplation of goodness as a moral ... itself, while Maimonides stressed that contemplation should lead to positive ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- practice of Dzogchen teaching is Dzogchen 'contemplation,' which is rendered in English as "The View." "The View" when stabilized ...18 KB (2,673 words) - 01:18, 16 January 2023
- but also spent a good deal of time in silent contemplation. During the plague of 1583 at Granada, he ministered heroically to the sick, a sacrifice which ...8 KB (1,278 words) - 13:07, 5 September 2022
- spiritual self-concentration and inner contemplation, known in mystical nomenclature ... the “prayer of quiet” or acquired contemplation, is drawn from the well ...22 KB (3,548 words) - 03:48, 30 April 2023
- Stephen intended to retire to a life of holy contemplation and hand ... Stephen intended to retire to a life of holy contemplation and hand ...19 KB (3,077 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- that which is joined with Him in our contemplation, but all providence, ... and finally a darkness of the mind in contemplation of the God who cannot ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 18:10, 31 January 2023
- the head between the knees, absorbed in contemplation and murmuring prayers ... of which marked both the end of his contemplation and his lapse into unconsciousness ...26 KB (4,149 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- to the foreign-policy adventuring and contemplation of pre-emptive war, which culminated in German readiness for conflict in 1914. ...9 KB (1,394 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2020
- eternal and eventually a realization in contemplation that the true self merges ... in right mindfulness and right contemplation. Ninian Smart, The Religious ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- require some measure of faith in a divinity and contemplation of perhaps multiple methods of communication. For example, in the modern era; the ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- through philosophy and intellectual contemplation; * The belief that ... be liberated, or enlightened, through contemplation, leading to insight. ...32 KB (4,977 words) - 22:15, 30 November 2022
- of Amida. In addition to the Larger Sutra, the Contemplation Sutra and the Amitabha Sutra (The Smaller Sutra of Immeasurable Life) are important to the ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 13:45, 1 August 2022
- Eudaimonism is an ethical theory which maintains that happiness (eudaimonia) is reached through virtue (aretê). Eudaimonia and aretê are two ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- everyday world in order to practice true contemplation. Iamblichus devoted much of his work to the defense of mystic theurgic divine possession against ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- to persevere. Even though he sees contemplation of God as the highest ... Nature through physics can be seen as contemplation of God. Arne Næss, the ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- poems were his earnest attempts to instigate contemplation in those who viewed life and death as subtleties, and the musical and rhythmic nature of ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- Prayer/Contemplation/Reflection: For example, love of the Gospel of ... that there must be a spirit of prayer, contemplation, and reflection that ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- Hashanah Readings: Inspiration, Information, and Contemplation. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Pub, 2006. ISBN 978-1580232395. * Hoenig, Sidney ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- said about him, “Never in a human head was contemplation more separated from desire.” Wright died suddenly of a stroke on September 12, 1875 ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 00:45, 5 December 2023
- of essential breath energy. In contemplation, the practitioner watches thoughts as they arise and recede. [[Image:The_Immortal_Soul_of_the_Taoist_Adept ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- a fire that broke out, remaining in blissful contemplation while confusion and chaos reigned around him. When an epidemic struck Lima, 60 residents ...10 KB (1,693 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- certain practices that encourage the contemplation of the divine mysteries ... spent long periods in meditation and contemplation. Indeed, the tradition ...38 KB (5,451 words) - 00:07, 13 July 2021
- by human consciousness. Intuition is the direct contemplation of objects, and furthermore the assembling of the entire set of cognition from sensory perception ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- of its encouragement of solitary and silent contemplation. Before this, however, he traveled to Medina del Campo, where he met the charismatic Saint ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- was Upon Appleton House, a poem written as a contemplation of the merits of a life of public service as opposed to a life of inner insight. This marked ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 17:58, 27 July 2023
- philosophical tradition had elevated contemplation and ideas over actual ... visible and not just a quality of inner contemplation. Freedom was first experienced ...24 KB (3,560 words) - 18:02, 23 January 2024
- second is the devata, which corresponds to the Contemplation insofar as the devata is the method we use for developing the state discovered in the initial ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- where he passed his remaining years in religious contemplation, although he was still very much sought out as a diplomat by Pope Urban V. He died in Arquà ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- * [http://www.crystalrivers.com/poetry/brahma.html Contemplation of Brahmā - The creative power of the Infinite] * [http://www.dollsofindia.com/brahma ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- myself," said Fresnel, "by a pure contemplation of the facts, that it was not possible to discover the true explanation of double refraction ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- of her personal time was spent in religious contemplation. In 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt named Joseph Kennedy Ambassador to the Court ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- power is limited and soon exhausted in the contemplation of the things the truth of which it would find; therefore, of necessity, there must be something ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- counselor with time for reflection, contemplation and discourse with God as to their meaning. She has realized that her visions were not just ...13 KB (2,141 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- actions are to be purified of self-interest in contemplation of Him. His philosophy can be described as "Show love to all creatures, and thou wilt ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:42, 2 May 2023
- or more intense than the state of aesthetic contemplation" Clive Bell, Art (Illustrated Edition) (London, UK: Dodo Press, 2007, ISBN 1406547522 ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- prayers are unnecessary, but contemplation, both mystical and rational is encouraged. In Apollonius' supposed writing, On Sacrifices, we ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 15:49, 11 August 2023
- a knowledge of universal ideas to a contemplation of particular imitations ... of the good was accomplished through contemplation, much in the way in which ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 06:30, 12 August 2023
- author of the Guan Xin Lun (Treatise on the Contemplation of the Mind), written between 675-700 McRae, 1986, 119 ), a text once attributed to ...14 KB (1,945 words) - 17:46, 15 May 2020
- art. The aesthetic aspect lay in the way that contemplation of art carried a person beyond mundane, everyday preoccupations and secular desires to a serene ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- and the senses marked a great change from the contemplation on the biblical values of humility, introspection, and meekness that had dominated European ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- viwopisi [Russian icon painting. Colourful contemplation. Question of the meaning of life in early Russian religious painting], Moscow: Beliy Gorod, 2003 ...14 KB (2,018 words) - 20:09, 26 July 2023
- Walden emphasizes the importance of self-reliance, solitude, contemplation, and closeness to nature in transcending the crass existence that ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 20:52, 18 November 2022
- Pacceka Buddhas, having spent seven days in contemplation in the Gandhamādana, bathe in the Anotatta Lake and come to the habitations of men through ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 03:29, 23 December 2022
- as a straw and they set their hearts on the contemplation of Shiva.” [http://www.thenewyoga.org/guru_abhinavagupta.htm About Abhinavagupta: Five ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- unites itself in a confused and unconscious contemplation to the One, and sinks into it in the state of ecstasis. In the neo-Platonism of Plotinus ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- *Of Divine Contemplation or Vision (unfinished) (1624) *Of Christ's Testaments (1624) **I. Baptism **II. The Supper *Of Illumination (1624) ...15 KB (2,409 words) - 12:46, 6 November 2021
- for about a week. He spent his last days in contemplation of Vishnu and suffered agonies of separation from Him. The members of his family assembled ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- based on the 365 days of the year and contemplation of the mystical name of Abraxas. The Non-Being God of Basilides also bears some resemblance ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- of Gandhavyha sutra (Ipbeop gyepum chogi), Contemplation on the ten immeasurable revelations (Hwaeom sipmun ganbeop gwan), Explanation on the Sukavativyha ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 11:28, 18 April 2023
- provided the ideal environment for intellectual contemplation and personal development. [[Image:Cecil john rhodes00.jpg|thumb|right|Cecil Rhodes ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- of his greatest moments of joy in the contemplation of the order and beauty ... "Can I find God, who in the contemplation of the entire universe ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- to earn their living through work. No aids to contemplation, such as the processions, gyrations, and mutilations employed by Sufi dervishes, were permitted ...13 KB (2,064 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- The contemplation of his works made men better. It is said of one of the old Italian painters, that he never began a painting without first offering ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 21:34, 7 September 2023
- of all things who, after ages of silence and contemplation, gave rise to other beings by a process of emanation. The first series of beings, the aeons ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- Introspection can also be called contemplation on one's self, as opposed to "extrospection," the observation of things external ...17 KB (2,469 words) - 11:00, 6 March 2024
- | Second period after noon|| Personal: recreation, time for contemplation |- | Third period after noon||Inspect and review forces |- ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- who came to see him. He found joy in the contemplation of beauty, of art, of ideas, of service; of science, of nature. It was the joy of this knowing ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- as simple reasoning, communication, or contemplation of Universals. Concepts are specific to philosophy: Science has got "percepts," ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- quot; in traditional Hinduism involves inner contemplation, a rigorous system of meditation practice, ethics, metaphysics, and devotion to the one ...18 KB (2,929 words) - 09:05, 18 November 2022
- based. They were works of devotional contemplation, he said, in which the ... Respect for life, resulting from contemplation on one's own conscious ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- and lives in eternal bliss in devotional contemplation of God. Liberation, therefore, would be unflinching meditation on the nature of God and participation ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- a pillow. She spent all night in prayer and contemplation, reciting the Qur'an and chided herself if she fell asleep because it took her away from ...18 KB (3,164 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- it has come to the fore with more serious contemplation in the early years of the twenty-first century. Advocates of the tunnel are seeking funding ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- Sabbath took on new emphasis as a day of contemplation, prayer, and sacred rest. Circumcision, too, grew in significance as the special mark of the Israelites ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- hermit seeks solitude for meditation, contemplation, and prayer without the ... (liberation) through meditation and contemplation of God. The title Swami ...38 KB (6,105 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- "The contemplation of these effects induced me first to doubt infallibility of the old (free market) theory" (List 1827). In some respects ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- and thoughts,”Dumoulin, 95. stressing the contemplation of wisdom. The link between the Lankavatara Sutra and the “Bodhidharma school” is provided ...18 KB (2,660 words) - 12:22, 1 August 2022
- # Dhyāna paramita : one-pointed concentration, contemplation (禪定波羅蜜) # Prajñā paramita : wisdom, insight (智慧波羅蜜) ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- or escape from suffering in aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others ... from other experiences is that contemplation of the object of aesthetic ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- spends the rest of his life in spiritual contemplation. It is the last in the four phases of a man, which are referred to as brahmacharya, grihastha ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation nothing but an immense, an uninterrupted succession of causes and effects (Holbach, System ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 08:10, 20 September 2023
- bliss was through pure spiritual contemplation and worship of the Supreme Being, and that sacrificial rites were intended only for persons of ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- others toward religious dialog and contemplation. She was a courageous yet moderate pioneer for women in an age when to think, let alone to speak ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- font of Jewish mysticism, centering on the contemplation of Ezekiel's visions of the heavenly chariot. Known as Merkabah mysticism, this speculative ...21 KB (3,455 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- works that are objects of pure, disinterested contemplation, the chief criterion of the aesthetic experience. Their remoteness from mundane concerns ...20 KB (2,859 words) - 06:48, 18 April 2024
- * [http://www.crystalrivers.com/poetry/brahma.html Contemplation of Brahma - The creative power of the Infinite] Category:Hindu philosophical concepts ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- logic, Socratic dialogue and self-dialogue, contemplation of death, training attention to remain in the present moment (similar to some forms of Eastern ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- their collection of all my philosophical contemplation, counterbalances all these afflictions. And I beg you to take care of the children of Metrodorus ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- by a rational process, through the contemplation of man’s moral nature and condition. Reason would lead to common decisions about the right ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- wounds without any blood. Lengthy periods of contemplation, prayer, and ecstatic visions usually accompany the stigmata of many of these individuals ...21 KB (3,372 words) - 18:00, 21 October 2022
- his depth of religious thought and contemplation. His compositional forms bring out the changes between substantive climaxes and virtual silences ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 06:48, 31 July 2023
- engaging our capacities of reflective contemplation. Judgments of beauty ... For Arthur Schopenhauer aesthetic contemplation of beauty is the most ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
