Why the West ignored mental silence »

Posted By marion58 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Health & Fitness

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The conceptualisation of meditation as involving mental silence is virtually absent in Western scientific discussion. Why has this important notion been ignored? How did contemporary, popular notions of meditation become almost diametrically opposed to the ancient Indian ideas which form their source? Some explanations are examined below. When René Descartes made the philosophical statement “cogito ergo [...]

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