
Mindfulness Revisited: A Buddhist-Based Conceptualization

all. Elsewhere (Neale, 2011, 2012), I have coined the term ‘McMindfulness’ for the recent trend in the Western mainstream, overemphasizing mindfulness meditation to the exclusion of the other disciplines, diluting the potency of Buddha’s psychology. My critique is based on two observations. First, extracted from the curricula of wisdom and ethics,
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Popular and scientific definitions of mindfulness neglect its traditional aim of insight, focusing instead on simple mindfulness understood as: “clear and single-minded awareness of what actually happens to us and in us at the successive moments of percep-tion” (Nyanaponika Thera, 1972, p. 5);
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There is a clear need for conceptual agreement on the meaning
of mindfulness, not only to facilitate communication about the construct but, most pragmatically, to create a stable platform of basic and applied research in this
still young area of investigation.
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