Mindfulness - MUCH MORE than a Clinical Intervention or Object of Study

     "‘Mindfulness’ is not only to be understood as an abstract idea or concept but also embodied and experienced as a practice. The great risk of the engagement with mindfulness in the West, whether through Buddhist Studies or Psychology, is that it is taken as an object of study, to be written about, rather than as something to do or be." 

 

        Stanley S. Intimate distances: William James’ introspection, Buddhist mindfulness, and experiential inquiry. New Ideas in Psychology 2012; 30: 201–211.

 

Vincent Quint   www.dpreview.com