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,

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);