I argue that central Buddhist tenets and meditation methodology support a view of free will similar to Harry Frankfurt’s optimistic view and contrary to Galen Strawson’s pessimistic view. For Frankfurt, free will involves a relationship between actions, volitions, and “metavolitions” (volitions about volitions): simplifying greatly, volitional actions are free if the agent approves of them. For...

The fading affect bias (FAB) is a robust phenomenon where unpleasant fades faster than pleasant affect. FAB believed to be coping mechanism designed make life appear in the face of hardships and adversities. persists across several cultures many event types (e.g., alcohol, religious, death), even though low has been demonstrated for social media events, videogame events labeled as but not spiri...

This contribution focuses on narratives and experiences of belonging exclusion among convert members Three Wheels, a Japanese Shin Buddhist temple in London, to investigate how difference is incorporated into transnational Buddhism. whose include both diasporic Europeans, occupies marginal position within Buddhism the UK’s (and broader religious) landscape. By embracing individual collective ma...

India is a place of variety with multicultural and multilingual dimensions. Various cultures are fused here the inner bond unity amid diversity. Thus, various religions like Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Sikhs coexisted friendship loyalty. regional barriers language or culture made unique in globe. It had history more than thousand years amalgamations different cultures. Every corner has s...

The article presents an ethnography of Buddhist practice groups in Wutong village, urban village the Shenzhen metropolis area, relating to village's predicament through 1990s and until 2019. It discusses relationship between two intertwined forms soft power employed by Chinese regime: 1) push for cultural consumption within framework re-development villages. 2) PRC’s re-definition Buddhism as a...

Mindfulness practice and mindful consumption have increasingly attracted the interests of academics general public worldwide. Despite fact that mindfulness meditation has its roots in Buddhism, little empirical research studied from Buddhist principles perspective active Buddhists who regularly dedicate themselves to with goal achieving liberation suffering. This study builds on extends previou...

Atheists are among the most disliked groups in America, which has been explained a variety of ways, one is that atheists hostile towards religion and anti-atheist prejudice therefore reactive. We tested this hypothesis by using 2018 American General Social Survey investigating attitudes atheists, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims. initially used general sample Americans, but then ide...

In three samples containing Buddhist and Christian participants from several nations, participants of both religions manifested a generally similar relationship between religiosity and intolerance. In all three samples, devotional religiosity (e.g. prayer frequency, faith devotion), was strongly correlated with coalitional religiosity (e.g. organized religious attendance, fundamentalism). Yet d...