Mindfulness Diverse Perspectives on its Meaning, Origins and Applications [Paperback]

Mindfulness-based approaches to medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions have become increasingly common. New paradigms are emerging from a confluence of two powerful and potentially synergistic epistemologies: one arising from the wisdom traditions of Asia and the other arising from post-enlightenment empirical science.

This book presents the work of internationally renowned experts in the fields of Buddhist scholarship and scientific research, as well as looking at the implementation of mindfulness in healthcare and education settings. Contributors consider the use of mindfulness throughout history and look at the actual meaning of mindfulness whilst identifying the most salient areas for potential synergy and for potential disjunction.

Mindfulness: Diverse Perspectives on its Meanings, Origins and Applicationsprovides a place where wisdom teachings, philosophy, history, science and personal meditation practice meet. It was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism.

Editors' Foreword  1. Mindfulness: diverse perspectives on its meaning, origins, and multiple applications at the intersection of science and dharma  2. What does mindfulness really mean? A canonical perspective  3. Is mindfulness present-centred and non-judgmental? A discussion of the cognitive dimensions of mindfulness  4.The construction of mindfulness  5. Toward an understanding of non-dual mindfulness  6. How does mindfulness transform suffering? I: the nature and origins of Dukkha  7. How does mindfulness transform suffering? II: the transformation of Dukkha  8. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: culture clash or creative fusion?  9. Compassion in the landscape of suffering  10. Meditation and mindfulóž