Descartes starts his Meditations off and thinks that he should doubt all of his senses, because he fears that they have been deceiving him ever since he has had them. ... If that statement is indeed true, then by the end of the book Descartes can truly see that some of his skepticism was not in fact rational, and so he says that "the hyperbolic doubts of the last few days ought to be rejected as ludicrous" (Meditations 89; pg. 58). ... To some, that is a daunting task, but Descartes thinks that in this stage in his life, it is the right time for such an undertaking. ... Descartes understa...

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In the first two Meditations one is fascinated by his proofs and his finding the version of the cogito, or his nature, only to find their selves confused and not fully satisfied when it comes to his proof of the existence of God in Meditation III. ... Using his methods of doubt and analysis, he has examined all his beliefs and set aside those which he could call into to doubt until he reached a belief that he could not doubt. ... How could he doubt mathematics, something that could be scientifically proven and not doubt God. ... Not only do I think that his proof of existence of God was st...

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There are four successive stages of Nibbana, the highest of which is (Parinirvana). ... Through the rigors of self-denial, meditation, and by receiving religious teaching, nirvana is attainable. The samgha must shed the following ten predispositions: belief in anything permanent including the soul, doubt, attachment, craving both sensual and material, negative thoughts, conceit, and ignorance if they hope be freed from the cycle of death and rebirth. ... Meditation is the prescription for overcoming the world's evils for, "He who meets with the Guru, is Emancipated" (SG, 39). ......

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The poem I have chosen to deal with in this short piece of work is "Thanatopsis", or "meditation on death", by William Cullen Bryant. I liked it since the first time I read it since it was surprising the way in which a meditation on death is mixed up with a meditation on nature, and how the barriers between both things seem to fuzzy in this poem. ... When translated into English from Greek, "thanatopsis" means "meditation on death". ... On the other hand, the Greek expression might recall all the philosophic tradition of these people, and their taste for meditation and contemplation. ......

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Siddhartha like Gotama and Vasudeva has reached this stage of enlightenment and truth. ... Siddhartha told Gotama, "I did not doubt you for one moment. Not for one moment did I doubt that you were the Buddha, that you have reached the highest goal, which so many thousands of Brahmins and Brahmins" sons are striving to reach. You have done so by your own seeking, in you own way, through thought, through meditation, through knowledge, through enlightenment. ... Instead of denying himself though fasting, meditation, and waiting he would escape to temporary pleasure. ...

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No doubt religion means much or little according to the stage of development that has been reached, but, in its earliest as in its latest form. ... No doubt there are various forms of religion, but all of them man has the consciousness of having grasped the inner truth of things and attained to the completion of his being. Whether the divine is believed to be immediately present or be far off, there is never any doubt of its absolute reality. ... No doubt primitive man fears certain things for example spirits; but however his dread of these is not in fact religious, on the contrary, it exclu...

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They believe that this type of meditation clears the mind and leaves it more open to enlightening thoughts and realization. ... While the Buddha sat under the bodi tree, the tree of awakening, Mara bombarded Gutama with doubts and temptations like hunger, sensuality, fear, sloth, and the like in order to dissuade him from continuing on the path toward enlightenment, however all temptations failed. The Buddha then began a process of disengagement through the four stages of dhyana, which serve as the foundation of the abhijna (super knowledges). ...

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In the end he did become an enlightened one and from that point on set out to show people how meditation and following a Buddhist lifestyle will lead everyone on the right path. ... The Puranas show another stage of Hinduism. ... I doubt that I was able to hit upon a lot of the details that I could have gotten into with this topic. ...

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The word Magick is spelled with a "k" to distinguish between stage magic, for instance David Copperfield's work, and real magick the unexplainable or supernatural.' ... The Gishes claim that Halloween is a satanic holiday, ' and that incidents of poisoned candy and killings are no doubt one expression of satanic sacrifices ("Halloween Message..."). ... For instance prayer and meditation. ... Wiccans believe that this is not supernatural, ' but in fact everyone has the ability to do prayer and meditation. ...

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Most of Asia used the singing bowls as a means of meditation and spiritual religious involvement. ... A chakra "Represents stages in our development, different levels of consciousness and spiritual maturity. " (Regula, 2010). ... The frequency range is measured in hertz and affects the different stages of consciousness. The brainwaves mentioned in the table come from the different stages of sleep. The idea of vibrational therapy is to produce sound waves that will flow during each of the individual stages of sleep. ...

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And finally the third stage consists in the exposition, elaboration and diversification by the commentaries on the Brahma Sutras. ... But here we do not doubt the very authenticity of the object, rather we reject one of the aspects of the object. ...

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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of non-violence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. ...

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Their horror may be well conceived if we think that lots of that Negroes were found, at the end of their voyage, in different stages of suffocation; lots of them were foaming at the mouth and in their last agonies; many were already dead. ... The tumult they had heard was the frenzy of those suffocating wretches in the last stages of fury and desperation, struggling to extricate themselves. ... When I looked around the ship and saw a large furnace of copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one of their countenances expressing dejection and...

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Now, in the closing stages of the twentieth century after the birth of Christ, thanks to the crusading zeal of the Charismatic-Pentecostal Movement, Roman Catholicism and syncretistic liberalism, these shamanistic, occult practices are being advocated by churches professing the name of Christ. ...

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Usui's test was three weeks of fasting, prayer, and meditation on Mount Koriyama in Japan. ... He decided to accept what was coming and the answer to his meditation, even if it resulted in his death. ...

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When Shakespeare's company performed Act V, for instance, the noble men and women in the first audience of the play would be watching other noble men and women (Hippolyta, Theseus, Helena, Demetrius, Hermia, and Lysander) doing on stage exactly what they themselves were doing in real life: watching a play meant to entertain them at a wedding. ... His arrow missed, and pierced the flower instead, while "th'imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free."" ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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