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Richard E. Whitehead

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STORIES OF SUFFERING AND GROWTH: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF NONATTACHMENT

Contemporary Buddhism July 3, 2018 Richard E. Whitehead, Glen William Bates, Brad Elphinstone 18 citations

The Buddhist concept of nonattachment refers to a flexible engagement with experience without fixation on achieving specified outcomes. The primary focus of this study was to qualitatively examine how nonattachment and attachment are experienced in individuals identified as having very high and low levels of nonattachment. Specifically, we examined individuals’ descriptions of how their levels...