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Edel Maex

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The Buddhist roots of mindfulness training: a practitioners view

Contemporary Buddhism May 1, 2011 Edel Maex 70 citations

Jon Kabat-Zinn's Full Catastrophe Living skilfully succeeded in translating traditional Buddhist concepts in modern everyday language so as to make them accessible to the West. It was a stroke of genius to take mindfulness training out of the Buddhist context, but the risk might be that, instead of opening a door to the Dharma (the Buddhist teaching), it might also close a door leading to the...