5 Questions
Which tradition(s) is mindfulness derived from?
Hindu and Buddhist traditions
Who are some individuals who have contributed to the popularity of mindfulness in the modern Western context?
Thích Nhất Hạnh, Joseph Goldstein, Herbert Benson
What is the practice of mindfulness meditation?
Recurrent training of one's attention to reorient whenever it acquiesces to its opposite, absent-mindedness
What do Buddhist traditions describe as constituting mindfulness?
How past, present, and future moments arise and cease as momentary sense impressions and mental phenomena
What field(s) have developed therapeutic applications of mindfulness since the 1970s?
Clinical psychology and psychiatry
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