18-10-2018 | LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Remembering with Wisdom Is Not Intrinsic to All Forms of Mindfulness
Auteur:
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Gepubliceerd in:
Mindfulness
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Uitgave 6/2018
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Excerpt
Current Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) have at times been criticized for not incorporating more explicitly traditional associations of mindfulness with wisdom and memory. In the present brief reply to Levman (
2018b), published in the same issue of this journal, I argue that such criticism is not really pertinent, as it reflects only a specific understanding of mindfulness held within a particular Buddhist tradition. It does not apply to the whole variety of mindfulness-constructs extant since ancient times in the Buddhist traditions and hence cannot be employed as the only relevant measuring rod by which any definition in current usage must be evaluated. …