Mindfulness Isn't Just a List of Features, Right?

mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment in a non judgmenta fashion disposed to bring about insight. The form of meditation i teach, the buddhist form, it's claimed t goes back to sitarta. It's called the passina and pasina means insight - not just an intellectual insight, but an exitential insight. Supposed to reduce reactivity. Does that mean? Now, that's a feature list. We're missing the idos. And we need to re-interpret all these things so we can actually explain their functionality.

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