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Mindfulness++

Buddhist Geeks

CHAPTER

The Meaning of Mindfulness

John Cabot Zinn's definition of mindfulness is paying attention in a particular way on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally. If you actually go back to the earliest referencing or mentioning of that term, in the Indian tradition it was called Smriti. So when we practice mindfulness with that kind of more ancient kind of meaning of to remember, recollect, the question comes up for me: What are we remembering to do?

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