Sublime

Lorsque les anciens ont découvert que chaque population avait sa propre vision de la vie, ils n’ont pas été tétanisés. Cela leur a au contraire permis d’améliorer leur compréhension de l’humanité et d’avoir les conversations les plus enrichissantes que des hommes aient jamais engagées sur la meilleure façon de mener son existence.

William James, one of the founding fathers of the tradition, could have been talking about mindfulness when he wrote that, “the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgment, character, and will. No one is compos sui [master of himself] if he have it not.”5 Unfortunately, James was less

The goal, therefore, is to increase the total power of consciousness available for both attention and awareness.

explain, predict, and control these phenomenological properties, in terms of things happening in the brain and body. We would like to know what it is about specific patterns of activity in the brain—such as the complex looping activity in the visual cortex*—that explains (and predicts, and controls) why an experience, such as the experience of redn

According to tradition, present-centered awareness trained repeatedly over time through mindfulness practice produces several distinct mental qualities: relaxation, concentration, balanced sensitivity, mental clarity, and pliancy. In addition, mindfulness affords two key skills—recognition and choice. These skills are not well documented, but are t