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This Japanese word connecting mind, body, and spirit is also driving scientific discovery qz.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 4 years, 4 months ago

Conceptually, it unites the notions of heart, mind, and spirit: It sees these three elements as being indivisible from one other.
We should take the interrelationship of our thoughts, feelings, and desires into account in order to understand human experience.
“Are the familiar Western (and some distinctively English) concepts of mind, heart, spirit, will, consciousness, soul…the best way to describe and divide human experience?” asks Paul Swanson, a professor of humanities at Nanzan University in Japan.
He explained at a NIRC conference, “The human heart is rich in intuition; it possesses attributes such as illogicality, hunger for novelty, creativity, infinity and openness.
Buddhist brainsAmerican scientists have also explored the connection between body, mind, and spirit.