With The Heart In Mind: The Moral and Emotional Intelligence of the Prophet Muhammad

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Using a stethoscope– can listen to the ‘lub-dub’ sounds of the heart made by the valves opening and closing. This can help identify any abnormal sounds. We can’t consciously increase the speed or strength of our heartbeat, so this is where the subconscious part of our nervous system – known as the autonomic nervous system – is in control. It’s this process, and how it can go wrong, that Professor Alexander Gourine and his team at University College London are researching, with colleagues at Queen Mary University of London. Pythagoras (c. 570–c. 495 BC) had described the soul as consisting of three parts–intelligence, reason and passion. The seat of the soul extended from the heart to the brain, passion being located in the heart and reason and intelligence in the brain (Prioreschi, 1996). Clarke, J. J. 2001. The Tao of the West: Western Transformations of Taoist Thought. London and New York: Routledge. The mind has potential in the sense that it’s capable of “creating reality.” This is why we say the mind is the most powerful weapon. The soul is as important as the mind because without a soul, there won’t be a “living” being, and the mind will be useless. Is the soul in the heart or mind?

Zhu, Xi 朱熹. 2012. Collected Commentaries of the Four Books 四書章句集注. Beijing 北京: Zhonghua Shuju 中華書局. In addition to its extensive neurological interactions, the heart also communicates with the brain and body biochemically by way of the hormones it produces. Although not typically thought of as an endocrine gland, the heart actually manufactures and secretes a number of hormones and neurotransmitters that have a wide-ranging impact on the body as a whole.There is no more reason to believe that any human brain will be immortal than there is to think that one of my phonographic cylinders will be immortal… No one thinks of claiming immortality for the cylinders… Then why claim it for the brain mechanism or the power that drives it? Because we do not know what that power is, shall we call it immortal? As well call electricity immortal because we do not know what it is… After death the force or power undoubtedly endures, but it endures in this world, not in the next. And so with the thing we call life, or the soul – mere speculative terms for a material thing which under given conditions drives this way or that. It too endures in this world, not the other. Because we are as yet unable to understand it, we call it immortal. It is the ignorant, lazy man’s refuge’ (Marshall, 1910). Pali and Sanskrit define the mind by the same word, mana, which came from the root verb man, which means “to think.” However, if we think about it, the mind has more territory compared to the intellect, which includes senses and emotions as it’s a response to feelings that our thoughts arise in the process of labeling and understanding them.

Philosophers for Kung Fu: A Response.” The New York Times forum “The Stone,” December 21, 2010. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/philosophers-for-kung-fu-a-response/ (last accessed on November 17, 2020). The mind can make decisions without anything clouding its judgment, whereas the heart follows sentimental values. The meaning of the heart in spirituality is profound and takes much understanding to comprehend. Many cultures have magnified the importance of following your heart. When they say “listen to your heart,” they don’t mean the physical heart, but the spiritual heart. Our spiritual heart is said to be the key to our deepest fulfillment. Moreover , it’s a doorway to the profound relationship with the Creator. One defines it as the doorway to peace, gratitude, love, and joy. right. The Mohist concept of measurement standards ( fa法) remain central in this realist later Mohist phase. The We remain ‘children of Tantalus, frustrated by the failure to grasp that which seems within reach…’ (Wilson, 1998).V. S. Ramachandran, brain scientist at the University of California, San Diego, is less tactful. He said in an interview that there might be soul in the sense of ‘the universal spirit of the cosmos,’ but the soul as it is usually spoken of, ‘an immaterial spirit that occupies individual brains and that only evolved in humans—all that is complete nonsense.’ Belief in that kind of soul ‘is basically superstition,’ he said (Dean, 2007). Rabbi Zev Wolf of Nikolaiev told it as a parable. He told of the king who at the height of a one crazy, drunken party, announced that on a certain day anyone of his kingdom could come and take whatever they wished of the royal treasure. Then, the next morning he was sober and couldn't believe what he had done. Fortunately for him, his wise advisers came up with a plan. Moreover, Aristotle reasoned, saying a man’s body is his matter, and his soul is his form; in simpler words, the body is a collection of elements, and the soul is the essence. Wang, Miquan 王覓泉. 2016. “Mencius’ Human-Animal Distinction under the Perspective of Evolutionary Ethics 進化論倫理學視野下的孟子人禽之辨.” Journal of Tianjin University 天津大學學報 (Social Science edition) 18.3: 252–256.