... on the contemplative gaze that links the central two figures of the painting, the yogini and the mynah, the chapter reflects on the image of meditation—and the practices of meditation—embodied in that pairing of human and bird. Madeleine Brainerd’s reflections on the poetics and politics of transspecies meditation...

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...This chapter suggests that the anonymous mystical treatise called the Cloud of Unknowing should be read in the light of the linguistic accounts of nonsignification examined in previous chapters. What emerges from such a reading is the central importance of the meditation technique...

...This final chapter begins with an extended treatment of the concept of musement as Peirce developed it in his Neglected Argument. Musement is characterized here as both an experiment and a kind of spiritual exercise, as inquiry and as prayerful meditation. The chapter then moves to a consideration...

... meditation” (or vipassanā) in Buddhism implies the same attentiveness to experience but stresses compassionate insight and conduct. It considers what the quest for a beatific vision has to do with the “problem of evil” in a naturalistic mysticism such as Santayana’s. The chapter also discusses Santayana’s...

... more inclusive radii of meaning. action being encounter meditation thought Bugbee appropriated the phrase “inward morning” from Thoreau in order to convey the experience of radical reflection: There is this bathing in fluent reality which resolves mental fixations and suggests that our manner...

... of this meditation is to move to a purified or apophatic conception of God. It concludes that prayer is a thinking about things which truly matter, a paradoxical thinking that goes beyond itself, and a thinking that is concerned with others. Anselm Saint Face the Prayer and attention Grace meditation love...

...James Earle Fraser's Lincoln in Jersey City, New Jersey is a thoughtful portrait of Abraham Lincoln, seated on a boulder, lost in either meditation or deep thought, contemplation. It is possible that the sculptor drew inspiration for seating Lincoln on a boulder from Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Adams...

... flesh, any number of us must work through habituated disgust, which threatens to expel the anomalous other. The theo-philosophical work of Simone Weil is here engaged in itself and as resource for thinking with “Christ as grotesque” (itself perhaps a version of corpse meditation)--as a way...

... units of measure and authenticity” —for instance, Orientalized monks and Eastern meditation— “are uncritically reproduced in larger Asian American discourses that continue to overlook the non-devotional and non-meditative practices of Buddhist laity.” Suh’s essay counters those discourses by engendering...

...In Bataille’s notions of inner experience and meditation, he returns persistently to the seemingly very traditional goal of attaining silence. This essay reminds us of Bataille’s rejection of the idea of the project, of end-oriented practices, in order to rethink his idea of silence in the context...