Mindfulness Revisited: A Buddhist-Based Conceptualization

This application of mindfulness is distinct from intently focusing on developing concentration or one-pointedness. It works with cultivating the broader awareness, the kind of “network looking,” the clear comprehension (sampajanna) we’ve been looking at.

First, meditation practices that aim at cultivating samadhi, or states of clear, thought-free concentration, all too often end up fostering emotional dissociation and avoidance. Thus, rather than engage and work through the manifestations of fear, anxiety, anger, and self-centeredness as they emerge, meditation can create an oasis or bubble of clar

Consistently neglecting peripheral awareness in favor of attention eventually stunts the faculty of awareness.

In practicing mindfulness of our body and mind, we give ourselves the attention and love we need and we take care of ourselves moment to moment, so that we don’t need so much from others.