The Intuitive Buddhist

Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas

doi:10.3726/b15055

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“…A key finding of mindfulness research pertains to the effect of mindfulness on long‐term episodic memory. In general, several scholars have theorized that because mindfulness is associated with awareness of and attention to the present, trait mindfulness can help decrease the impact of events and experiences from the past (e.g., Ţhānissaro, 2012). It is important to note, however, that the effect of mindfulness may not be uniform for all types of memories.…”

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Mindful but forgetful: The negative effect of trait mindfulness on memories of immoral behavior

Reynolds,

Eliseo,

Watkins

et al. 2023

Business and Society Review

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Drawing from existing theory and empirical evidence on mindfulness, we posit that trait mindfulness is associated with less accurate memories of immoral conduct. We report three studies that provide evidence of this argument. One significant implication of this finding is that it provides a more balanced and complete view of mindfulness. Specifically, while mindfulness is widely promoted for its positive effects for employee well‐being, mindfulness may inadvertently promote a biased moral self‐perception based on inaccurate memories of one's past immoral conduct. In a fourth study, we explore this implication and demonstrate that memory mediates the negative relationship between trait mindfulness and self‐reported immoral conduct. This research contributes to literatures on mindfulness, memory, morality, and to the growing body of work assessing the importance of mindfulness.

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Section: Theoretical Modelmentioning

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Mindful but forgetful: The negative effect of trait mindfulness on memories of immoral behavior

Reynolds,

Eliseo,

Watkins

et al. 2023

Business and Society Review

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“…Whatever action he does, for good or for evil, to that will he fall heir.” Thus, the hatred for that individual should be subdued. (Aghatavinaya sutta, n.d.)…”

Section: Mindfulness In the Context Of The Buddha’s Other Teachingsmentioning

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“…The Buddha uses the Pali expression “ ekayano ” meaning “this path goes in one direction only, toward the end of suffering or dukkha. ” The term ekayano is contained and explained in the Maha-satipatthana Sutta Digha Nikaya 22, a foundational and text setting out the Buddha’s advice and instruction on mindfulness practice (Maha-satipatthana sutta, n.d.).…”

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Selling water by the river.

Tejadhammo¹

2021

The Humanistic Psychologist

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In this article I discuss the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness practice in the style of a Dhamma talk, a form similar to early Buddhist discourses. I address the way mindfulness is offered in contemporary teachings, and my concerns and disquiet with these offerings, the main ones of which pertain to the tendency to promote individual benefits and gains from the practice, the commercialization of mindfulness programs, and the population and purpose for which mindfulness is currently offered. I contrast these contemporary teachings with the original intent and purpose with which mindfulness was recommended by the Buddha in his early teachings and discourses known as the suttas. Additionally, I discuss my concerns with how mindfulness is commonly taught today as a stand-alone technique, rather than as a relational practice to be developed alongside the Buddha's teachings on cultivating such positive qualities such as loving kindness, compassion, generosity, ethics, morality, and wisdom. I conclude that a better and more nuanced understanding of the Buddha's actual teachings will reduce any ambivalence toward using these teachings in mindfulness due to unfounded concerns with seeing Buddhism as a religion, and allow mindfulness to be employed to help people to cultivate positive qualities and values for the betterment of self and others.

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“…describe shamatha and vipassana as spiritual attainments (stages of development of the mind) and not as meditation techniques. Similarly, although vipassana is sometimes used, in what is a misuse of language, to name a practice that claims to be a meditation technique, stemming from Theravada Buddhism, 50 underlying mindfulness meditation, even in the Theravada tradition, shamatha and vipassana do not correspond, strictly speaking, to meditation techniques, but to qualities of the mind that develop simultaneously (in tandem) along with meditation practice (Brahm, 2006; Nanasampanno, 2010; Sujato, 2012; Thanissaro, 1999): But if you look directly at the Pali discourse—the earliest extant sources for our knowledge of the Buddha’s teachings—you’ll find that although they do use the word samatha to mean tranquillity, and vipassana to mean clear-seeing, they otherwise confirm none of the received wisdom about these terms. [.…”

Section: Divergences Between Training In Tranquil Abiding and Mindful...mentioning

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“…In the few instances where they do mention vipassana , they almost always pair it with samatha —not as two alternative methods, but as two qualities of mind that a person may ‘gain’ or ‘be endowed with,’ and that should be developed together. (Thanissaro, 1999, pp. 45–46) In that way, samãdhi and vipassanã were developed in tandem, neither one lagging behind the other; [.…”

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Mindfulness meditation versus training in tranquil abiding: Theoretical comparison and relevance for developing concentration.

Guillaume

Jean

Marcaurelle

et al. 2020

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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Mindfulness meditation is often presented, in Western psychology, as a traditional Buddhist practice. However, this is actually a practice derived from an amalgam of various currents of thought, diverging in many ways from the meditative practices of classical Buddhism and its very definition of mindfulness. Regarding the modern concept of mindfulness, the term remains decidedly ambiguous and less than rigorous from a Buddhist point of view, as well as from a cognitive and neuropsychological point of view. Furthermore, there is significant confusion with regard to the concepts of shamatha and vipassana, which are mistakenly interpreted as meditation techniques. Vipassana is purported to be a meditation technique based on open monitoring (OM) that is said to correspond to the cognitive process involved in mindfulness meditation. However, a phenomenological and logical analysis of the OM model shows that OM meditation sometimes corresponds unknowingly to focused-attention meditation, the very opposite of OM, and sometimes (and more likely) to mind-wandering or mental sinking, the inverse of concentration or meditation. Therefore, a more classical Buddhist meditative practice, such as training in tranquil abiding, would appear to be more coherent, logical, and functional than mindfulness meditation appears to be, especially for developing concentration.

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The Intuitive Buddhist

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Mindful but forgetful: The negative effect of trait mindfulness on memories of immoral behavior

Mindful but forgetful: The negative effect of trait mindfulness on memories of immoral behavior

Selling water by the river.

Mindfulness meditation versus training in tranquil abiding: Theoretical comparison and relevance for developing concentration.

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