从“守一”到“心灵的逍遥”

对于儒、释、道之特质,人们惯于用"儒家治世、道家治身、佛家治心"概括之。笼统地讲,这种表达不能算错,但却不准确。事实上,三教皆"外能治世,中可治身(家),内以修心",只不     

心灵的“海底坐垫”

海洋是永不止息的,风从不会平,浪从不会静。但在海底深处,却有一个风吹不到浪打不到的地方,叫做“海底坐垫”。任狂风暴雨搅翻大海,任龙吟海啸波涌浪滚,那个地方从来不会被搅动。当科学家挖掘海底,把“海底坐垫”上的动植物遗骸拿上来检测时,证实了这些遗骸一动不动地被存放了数千年之久,从未受到过打扰。     

略论华严宗判教思想对唐君毅“心灵九境”理论建构的影响

本文认为,华严宗在理论的系统性、以境界、教义分高下、由对教理的评析而归判境界,以及深刻的融通性、广大的包容性和适时适机的创造性等方面,都对唐君毅"心灵九境"的现代判教产生了重大的影响.     

佛教伦理思想中的生命关怀精神——兼论印顺法师的“人之正性”思想

佛教伦理以缘起论为理论基石,万事万物皆缘集而生、缘散而灭,启示人们应正视相互之间的依存性,自觉意识并担当起应尽的社会责任;佛教伦理以慈悲为怀,拔众生之苦痛、予众生以快乐,启示人们应积极投身到救灾扶贫、照顾鳏寡孤独等社会公益事业中来,为缓解弱势群体之困厄、促进社会之和谐作出应有的贡献;佛教伦理倡导忍辱精进精神,有助人们倡导和营建一个宽容而进取的社会。佛教伦理中蕴含的强烈的关注人生、关怀生命等精神价值资源,有益于人们在竞争日趋激烈的今天,调适自己的心灵,从而使生命得到真正地安顿。印顺法师的“人之正性”思想,立足于人心浮躁和困惑的现代人间世,吁求人们扬弃“众生性”而完满“人之正性”,进一步开显佛性,冀此来提升现代人的精神品质和追求,从而实现社会的和谐与安康。     

走出“围城”之后——关注离异群体——陈丰宴：让教会成为心灵受伤者的避风港

有人将婚姻比作“围城”．有人将婚姻比作“坟墓”,也有人将婚姻比作“鞋子”……而美国基督徒作家汤盖瑞则将婚姻比作“强力探照灯”,它是”无形的揭发者”．能够“直穿人性幽暗死角”。神说“婚姻,人人都当尊重”。     

突破语言对哲学的桎梏——意大利分析哲学协会（SIFA）2008“本体·心灵·语言”国际会议侧记

分析哲学一向被称为"英美分析哲学",这并非是由于这个20世纪最富影响力的治学方法诞生于英国或者美国,而是由于其主要的代表人物大都是英国或美国的哲学家,这无形当中也使英语成为分析哲学的"官方"语言.尽管英美的哲学家们都不大愿意承认他们在语言上所具有的得天独厚的优势,但是,当英语成为从事分析哲学的世界语言时,非英语国家的思想家们所面临的挑战就不仅仅是如何用英语来思考或者如何将自己的思想确切地用英语表达出来,而且还包括如何将分析哲学从英美学者的"垄断"中解放出来.     

论伊斯兰信仰与现代人的精神需求

长期以来,人类无情地向自然宣战。之所以如此是因为现代人觉得人们赖以生活的财富的匮乏,是因为现代人觉得人的幸福生活就在于丰富的物质财富。本文认为,伊斯兰教信仰有助于改变现代人类对人生追求的片面性,确立一种更加合理的、更符合人性的发展观和幸福观。     

The Spiritual Well-Being of Elderly People: A Study of a French Sample

The aim of our research was to identify predictors of the spiritual well-being of elderly people. More specifically, we postulated that subjective well-being and its components would be predictors of spiritual well-being, and more so than age and health status. We invited 133 people aged 60–95 to complete a questionnaire that included the French adaptation (Velasco and Rioux in Revue Canadienne des Sciences du Comportement 41(2):102–128, 2009) of Paloutzian and Ellison’s (Loneliness: A sourcebook of current theory, research and therapy, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1982) Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Ryff and Essex’s (Psychol Aging 7:507–517, 1992) Psychological Well-Being Scale (translated by Lapierre and Desrochers 1997), Salamon and Conte’s (Meas Eval Guid 15(3):194–200, 1982) Life Satisfaction in the Elderly Scale (validated by Rousseau and Dubé in 1993), and the French version (Blais et al. in Can J Behav Sci 21:210–223, 1989) of Diener et al. (J Pers Assess 49:71–75, 1985) Satisfaction with Life Scale. The results only partially confirm our hypothesis, because only satisfaction with life as a whole and two items in “Life Satisfaction in the Elderly Scale” make it possible to predict the spiritual well-being of elderly people. Moreover, neither health status nor age was found to be a significant predictor of spiritual well-being. This research helps understand better the links between the concept of spiritual well-being and that of subjective well-being of elderly people and could contribute to the development of a tool that could take into account the spiritual well-being of elderly people, whether they be believers, agnostic, or atheist.     

Religious/Spiritual Well-Being,Coping Styles,and Personality Dimensions in People With Substance Use Disorders

Religiosity and spirituality have been found to be negatively associated with a range of addictions. It has been suggested that religious/spiritual well-being might play an important role in the development, course, and recovery from addictive disorders. A sample of addiction in-patients (N = 389) was assessed using the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being (MI-RSWB) and compared with a matched group of nonaddicted community controls (N = 389). RSWB was found to be substantially lower in people with substance use disorders compared to the normal sample. Discriminate functional analysis showed that Experiences of Sense and Meaning, General Religiosity, and Forgiveness were the dimensions of RSWB that strongly distinguished the groups. Within the group of people with substance use disorders, RSWB was strongly positively associated with the personality dimensions of Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Openness as well as Sense of Coherence and positive Coping styles. The study suggests that therapeutic intervention programs focusing on building a positive and meaningful personal framework, akin to that of a religious/spiritual orientation, may contribute to positive outcomes in addiction treatment.     

Spiritual Care: Recognizing Spiritual Needs of Older Adults

SUMMARY

This paper explores aspects of spiritual needs and assessment, while emphasizing the importance of aged care providers being spiritually self-aware. The context of this exploration is meaning in life, spirituality and quality of life as experienced by older adults. Depression and dementia are frequently seen among older adults in residential aged care with resultant lowered quality of life. Pastoral and spiritual care may be used effectively to help alleviate depression and support older people who have dementia. However, to be able to provide appropriate spiritual care, spiritual needs should be assessed. Ways of assessing spiritual needs are suggested.     

Spiritual Semetism

The following text is an extract from the Memoirs of Gaston Zananiri OP, of which copies of the complete text have been deposited in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and the Dominican Historical Centre, Oxford. This extract allows us to relive the Jewish-Arab problem as it existed in the 1930s. Palestine was still under the British mandate, but its inhabitants were waiting for independence. This was the time when Pius XI declared, 'Spiritually we are all Semites.' Since then the Near East has witnessed political, nationalist and religious movements which have entirely changed the situation. We think it useful, in the present climate of renewed hopes and tensions, to publish this testimony from someone who was personally involved in this earlier period. The author, a Dominican priest in France since 1956, is an Alexandrian Melkite on his father's side, and a Jew on his mother's side.     

Spiritual Spontaneity

Abstract

Parent-child and parent-adolescent activity groups and parent-child occupation-based intervention meet different mental health needs and provide a different service than what is typically offered in a psychiatric setting. These interventions are designed to promote and/or develop positive interactions and engagement between parents and children in co-occupations.