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Mindfulness-based approaches to medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions have become increasingly common. New paradigms are emerging from a confluence of two powerful and potentially synergistic epistemologies: one arising from the wisdom traditions of Asia and the other arising from post-enlightenment empirical science.This book presents the work of internationally renowned experts in the fields of Buddhist scholarship and scientific research, as well as looking at the implementation of mindfulness in healthcare and education settings. Contributors consider the use of mindfulness throughout history and look at the actual meaning of mindfulness whilst identifying the most salient areas for potential synergy and for potential disjunction.Mindfulness: Diverse Perspectives on its Meanings, Origins and Applications provides a place where wisdom teachings, philosophy, history, science and personal meditation practice meet. It was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism.From the introduction:Quote:The guest editors introduce this special issue on Mindfulness, explaining its rationale, aims, and intentions. Integrating mindfulness-based approaches into medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions has become a burgeoning field. The very rapidity of such growth of interest in mainstream contemporary applications of ancient meditative practices traditionally associated with specific cultural and philosophical perspectives and purposes, raises concerns about whether the very essence of such practices and perspectives might be unwittingly denatured out of ignorance and/or misapprehended and potentially exploited in inappropriate and ultimately unwise ways. The authors suggest that this is a point in the development of this new field, which is emerging from a confluence of two powerful and potentially synergistic epistemologies, where it may be particularly fruitful to pause and take stock. The contributors to this special issue, all experts in the fields of Buddhist scholarship, scientific research, or the implementation of mindfulness in healthcare or educational settings, have risen to the challenge of identifying the most salient areas for potential synergy and for potential disjunction. Our hope is that out of these interchanges and reflections and collective conversations may come new understandings and emergences that will provide both direction and benefit to this promising field.ContentsCoverCopyright ContentsNotes on Contributors IntroductionWhat does mindfulness realty mean?Is mindfulness present-centred and non-judgmental?The construction of mindfulnessToward an understanding of non-dual mindfulnessHow does mindfulness transform suffering?Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: culture clash or creative fusion? Compassion in the Landscape of Suffering Meditation and mindfulnessThe Buddhist roots of mindfulness training: a practitioners view Mindfulness and loving-kindness Mindfulness in higher education’Enjoy your death’: leadership lessons forged in the crucible of organizational death and rebirth infused with mindfulness and masteryMindfulness, by any other name…: trials and tribulations of sati in western psychology and scienceMeasuring mindfulnessOn some definitions of mindfulnessSome reflections on the origins of MBSR, skillful means, and the trouble with mapsHardcover: 328 pagesPublisher: Routledge; 1 Reprint edition (February 12, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0415630967ISBN-13: 978-0415630962ASIN: B00G24TW70