Madden's dark face wore a meditative look.

As a spiritual basis for the refounded movement, Steiner wrote a Foundation Stone Meditation which remains a central meditative expression of anthroposophical ideas.

* By transcending such imaginative pictures, the meditant can become conscious of the meditative activity itself, which leads to experiences of expressions of soul-spiritual beings unmediated by sensory phenomena or qualities.

On his website, Brooks states that his potential followers must first prepare by combining the junk food diet with the meditative incantation of five magic " fifth-dimensional " words which appear on his website, some of which are words from Kundalini yoga.

Issues of interest include phenomena such as subliminal perception, blindsight, denial of impairment, and altered states of consciousness produced by psychoactive drugs or spiritual or meditative techniques.

There is concern that western schools of medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, and business leadership have appropriated ( possibly misappropriated ) the techniques of meditative practices denatured from their cultural and philosophical roots.

Lifestyles of communal ownership ( no individual property ) and the " vow of poverty " in many monastic traditions may also be intended to make selflessness easier to maintain ; that its practitioners may continuously remain in a meditative state of mind.

A sparse, meditative crime film set in Spain, it starred Isaach de Bankolé as a lone assassin with a secretive mission.

The action and ritual of offering keeps the mind in meditative state.

In order to assist in the meditative process place saffron paste or sandal paste on ring finger and anoint the forehead.

The icon sits cross-legged in a meditative posture, and the temple has two white towers of the classic North Indian form.

A meditative or contemplative state of being at peace with oneself and others is seen as Guanyin.

Thus, T ' ai chi ch ' uan in spite of its roots in martial arts has become similar in scope to Qigong, the purely meditative practice based on notions of circulation of qi.

The initial model for English odes was Horace, who used the form to write meditative lyrics on various themes.

The early English term is also used in the sense of " quiet ", reflecting calm, serene, and meditative approaches to family or group relationships that avoid quarreling and seek tranquility — an absence of disturbance or agitation.

The practitioner can repeat the mantra as many times as possible during the turning of the wheel, stabilizing a calm, meditative mind.

The early Buddhist texts discuss techniques for recalling previous births, predicated on the development of high levels of meditative concentration.

This included a general course of study based on meditative exercises ( intended to guide a meditant from « the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe .») and research departments focusing on areas such as education, medicine, agriculture, art, natural science, social science, and literature.

He believed that through freely chosen ethical disciplines and meditative training, anyone could develop the ability to experience the spiritual world, including the higher nature of oneself and others.

This mental state is also common to meditative practice.

* Meditation: The focus and calmness cultivated by the meditative aspect of t ' ai chi ch ' uan is seen as necessary in maintaining optimum health ( in the sense of relieving stress and maintaining homeostasis ) and in application of the form as a soft style martial art.

This involves meditative and moral practices.

On the contrary, the transcendence that is reached by such meditative work does not construct anything in the mind of the practitioner, but actually deconstructs all pre-conceived notions of the human condition.

** Jigme Lingpa discovers the Longchen Nyingtig ter through a meditative vision which brought him to the Boudhanath Stupa.

As well, in the 1970s advanced meditative techniques were introduced.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

All four types of message listed in Table 1 are permitted, although decorum and cocktail tradition require holding the commands to a minimum, while exclamations having complimentary intonations are more than customarily encouraged.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

Civilization itself -- tradition -- falls out of existence when the human spirit itself becomes confused.

Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can `` fall out of existence ''.

Thus with regard to the loss of tradition, in the change from order to disorder the metaphysics of change works itself out as a disruption of the individual soul, a change in which man continues as an objective ontological existent, but no longer as a man.

And when we consider the tenuous hold tradition has on existence, any weakening of that hold constitutes a crisis of existence.

The retention of a tradition confronted with such a crisis necessitates the introduction of new spiritual forces into the situation.

anxiety and deep insecurity are the characteristic responses evoked by the crisis in tradition.

The process of erosion need only undermine the tradition and a series of consequences begin unfolding within the individual, while in institutions a quiet but deep transformation of processes occurs.

Despite the hopelessness of the response, it is explicable in terms of the crisis of tradition itself.

But this truth is distorted by its extreme application: the assumption of the separate existence of tradition.

The reactionary misses the point that tradition exists ontologically only in the form of psychological-intellectual relations.

Reaction is rooted in a perception of tradition as a whole.

The reactionary is confused about the existential status of a decaying tradition, but he does perceive the unity tradition had when it was healthy.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.

Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

Sir Henry Howorth, writing in 1898, put himself firmly in the Lappenburg-Kemble tradition by attacking the veracity of the West Saxon annals.

Faust rescuing Helen from Menelaus' vengeance is the genius of renaissance Europe restoring to life the classic tradition.