What is "contemplative"

Usage examples of "contemplative".

No adequate study of contemplation can be conducted without a thorough investigation of its broader context of contemplative training as a whole.

Genuine mystical or contemplative experiences, for example, are seen as a regression or throwback to infantile states of narcissism, oceanic adualism, indissociation, and even primitive autism.

They can be experienced only by a transrational contemplative development, whose stages unfold in the same manner as any other developmental stages, and whose experiences are every bit as real as any others.

You, being given to a more contemplative and prayerful life, have a greater comprehension of the peril we face, and for that reason, I beseech you to address the Knights Hospitaler and urge them to be more militant in their actions, to do more than they have done to bring about the end of the vile bondage that holds Jerusalem in thrall to Saladin.

But robots of the nonspecialized, general purpose type were never designed for the contemplative life.

The research also dealt with psychoneuroimmunology, learned helplessness in mental health, the health benefits of meditation and contemplative prayer, and the impact of spiritually transforming experiences on the field of psychiatry itself.

Fevvers, however, contrived a contemplative and leisurely twenty-five, so that the packed theatre could enjoy the spectacle, as in slow motion, of every tense muscle straining in her Rubenesque form.

His clear-cut features, something too sharply defined for absolute regularity, with the unassertive effect of his straight auburn hair, his deliberate, contemplative glance, his reserved, high-bred look, the quiet decorum of his manner, were not suggestive of the tumult of his inner consciousness, and the unresponsiveness of his aspect baffled Briscoe.

These claims of Theravada Buddhist contemplatives obviously appear incredible in light of our commonsense assumptions about the mind.

I became so drawn to the integrated worldview, values, and way of life presented by the Tibetan scholars and contemplatives with whom I studied that for years I sought total immersion in this culture that was so far removed from my own.

I have sought out such encounters myself, including participating in a meditation retreat with the Dalai Lama and a group of Christian contemplatives in Prato, Italy, during the spring of 1999.

In part II, I present an alternative matrix of theories and practices for exploring consciousness, drawing from the writings of Western scholars and contemplatives such as Augustine, William James, Hilary Putnam, and Robert Forman and Eastern scholars and contemplatives such as Buddhaghosa, Vasubandhu, Asanga, and Padmasambhava.

When it came to probing the nature of subjective mental events or consciousness itself, these early philosophers had little to say, in comparison, for instance, to the contemplatives and philosophers of India during that same era.

During this era, the Devil figures prominently in the writings of Christian contemplatives and theologians, who appeared to be in constant fear of Satanic intrusion in prayer and all other aspects of the spiritual life.

However, Augustine and later Christian contemplatives maintained that while the nature of the mind cannot be discovered by observing external phenomena, it can be discovered by withdrawing the mind from all appearances that have been added onto it.