The Virtual and the Vacant-Emptiness and Knowledge in Chan and Daoism

Allen, Barry

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6253.2010.01596.x

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“…As a result of the view that the Buddha nature is inherent in everyone, practitioners in Mahāyāna traditions are typically instructed to discard delusions to reveal their original and nondiscriminating mind. This mind is thought to function naturally and without cognitive effort, attachment, and distortions and is referred to as no thought in chán or Zen Buddhism (Allen, ; Yampolsky, ). This kind of mindfulness that results from the awakening to one's Buddha nature is said to operate in the background, even when the working mind is occupied with daily tasks that require discrimination, categorization, and judgment (Zhu, ).…”

Section: Nonevaluative Awareness In Later Emerging Buddhist Traditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Importance of Morality in Mindfulness Practice

Krägeloh

2016

Counseling and Values

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As the result of secularization and adaption of mindfulness practices from Buddhism, elements specific to culture and religion have been removed, now drawing criticism that mindfulness training has lost its original ethical characteristics. This article argues that the lack of formal coverage of morality in mindfulness-based programs does not imply that morality plays no part, and that participants independently contextualize their mindfulness practice by drawing on their own sense of morality. Therefore, awareness of the role of morality in mindfulness practice is important for counselors, who can assist their clients with integrating their mindfulness practice with their own worldviews and ethical frameworks.

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Section: Nonevaluative Awareness In Later Emerging Buddhist Traditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%