ABSTRACT
Mindfulness as a therapeutic construct has been appropriated by and examined within many treatment approaches, including behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Buddhism has entered the common vernacular of psychology through the vehicle of mindfulness. This chapter outlines three integral aspects or stages of Buddhist practice that are referred to as the "threefold training", and is comprised of sila, or ethics, samadhi, or meditation, and panna, the wisdom achieved at the end of the path. In Buddhism the hindrances are the major means by which practitioners block a very different type of insight: the insight into impermanence, suffering, and non-self. All Buddhist practice is about knowing dukkha fully and completely within them. Deeply penetrating dukkha allow people insight into the impermanent, impersonal, and universal quality of the pain which is itself ennobling. Dukkha points to the general and pervasive unsatisfactoriness of life, the tension and stress which hover beneath all experience.
