Nishida Kitaro’s Philosophy as a Non-Religious Foundation for Mindfulness Interventions: Self-Insight Meditation Therapy as Clinical Operationalization
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology October 1, 2026 Yoshinobu Fujita, Tomohiko Muratsubaki, Kenjiro Ohta
Contemporary mindfulness interventions derive core techniques from Buddhist contemplative traditions yet lack robust non-religious philosophical foundations. This paper proposes that Nishida Kitaro’s philosophy offers such a foundation. His concept of topos (basho) provides a rigorous ontology of self–world relations, where the self and the world co-arise within a unified, self-determining...