Mindfulness Revisited: A Buddhist-Based Conceptualization

However, despite this extensive focus on medical treatments, there was a noticeable lack of meaningful discourse about the mind itself—its connection to consciousness, its intangible aspects, and its role in shaping human experience beyond the framework of pathology. This glaring omission underscores a reductionist tendency in Western mental health

Mindfulness helps us become aware of the mind’s habitual and conditioned patterns of escape and allows us to try an alternative way of being in the world.

Mindfulness sees the true nature of all phenomena

Mindfulness vs. over-identification: “Mindfulness is a non-judgmental, receptive mind state in which one observes thoughts and feelings as they are, without trying to suppress or deny them. We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time. At the same time, mindfulness requires that we not be ‘over-identified’ with thoughts and

Mindfulness, right? That’s just rebranded meditation—something Buddhists have done for thousands of years. Waking up at five a.m.? Millions of Muslims do that every day. Chanting aphorisms to yourself? Hindus have done that for millennia. Taking long contemplative walks? Christian pilgrims have been doing that for centuries, too.”