Oxford Scholarship Online 2017
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190495794.003.0007
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“Wherever You Go, There You Aren’t?”

Abstract: In his highly influential book Wherever You Go, There You Are (1995) Jon Kabat-Zinn suggests a particular kind of person revealed through mindfulness: a “you” to be found wherever you go. But who are “you”? Based on long-term anthropological fieldwork in northern Thailand, this chapter demonstrates that for many people there is no “you” exposed through Buddhist mindfulness practices, but instead local articulations of ideas about anattā, or non-self. “Spirits” of the person, called khwan, are also implicated: … Show more

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“…For her, mindful relationships must include awareness of our own thoughts and feelings in order to “attune ourselves to another person” (p. 16) for forming compassionate relationships. With mindful attention to the unfolding of experience moment by moment (Kabat‐Zinn, 1994), both mindfulness practices and relational attunement are needed for attending to others as they are in the moment.…”
Section: Orienting Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For her, mindful relationships must include awareness of our own thoughts and feelings in order to “attune ourselves to another person” (p. 16) for forming compassionate relationships. With mindful attention to the unfolding of experience moment by moment (Kabat‐Zinn, 1994), both mindfulness practices and relational attunement are needed for attending to others as they are in the moment.…”
Section: Orienting Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A less canonically elaborated but also locally significant and related way to think about mindlessness and the instable, multiple self in Thailand is to refer to the khwan. Khwan are conceptualized as spirit(s) of the self that are said to be gathered in the body, but which in moments of mindlessness are susceptible to wander off and make one unwell (Cassaniti & Luhrmann, 2014;Cassaniti, 2017). I like to think of them as a kind of personified wits, as when someone will say in English to ''keep one's wits about them'', or ''they've lost their wits''.…”
Section: Selfhoodmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…translation and commentarial work on mindfulness in Buddhist texts, especially in the sati-pav vh ana sutta. See also Cassaniti 2018Cassaniti , 2017Cassaniti , 2015a, 2014 for more on mind and mental health in contemporary Thai, Burmese and Sri Lankan culture. 3.…”
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“…Mindfulness pode ser definido como um estado mental que envolve estar atento às experiências do momento presente, de forma receptiva e sem julgamento (Kabat-Zinn, 1994). O mindfulness pode ser praticado de diversas formas, sejam elas formais ou informais.…”
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