Too Early to Tell: The Potential Impact and Challenges—Ethical and Otherwise—Inherent in the Mainstreaming of Dharma in an Increasingly Dystopian World
Mindfulness June 29, 2017 DOI: 10.1007/s12671-017-0758-2 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Buddhism |
| Keywords | Dystopia Ignorance Environmental ethics Cynicism Skepticism Meaning existential Enlightenment Global warming Law Aesthetics Psychoanalysis Epistemology Climate change Politics |
| Citations | 113 |
| Key points | Argues that the core aspirations behind introducing mindfulness into mainstream contexts were initially focused on medicine and health care via MBSR, and later extended to other domains as evidence of its efficacy accumulated. |
Abstract
Excerpt: What I intend to do in this paper is offer a non-exhaustive perspective on the original core aspirations, as I experienced them, behind introducing mindfulness as a practice and as a way of being into the mainstream world, initially through medicine and health care in the form of MBSR, and then—as the meme and practice took root and interest spread with increasing evidence of its multifaceted efficacy—to varying degrees into education, business, social justice, politics, and the more global domain of acknowledging a moral and exceedingly practical responsibility for the planet on the part of our species as a whole.
In the evidence
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State of the evidence: Buddhism Unclear
Argues that the core aspirations behind introducing mindfulness into mainstream contexts began with medicine and health care via MBSR and later extended to other domains as evidence of efficacy accumulated.
Synthesized
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on buddhism, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental balance and well-being: Building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology. | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience | 1995 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives on Emotions and Well-Being | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| From self to nonself: The Nonself Theory | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Buddhist roots of mindfulness training: a practitioners view | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
Citations in the library
Cited by 31
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- Foreword: Seeds of a necessary global renaissance in the making: the refining of psychology’s understanding of the nature of mind, self, and embodiment through the lens of mindfulness and its origins at a key inflection point for the species Current Opinion in Psychology February 23, 2019
- THE ‘UNIVERSAL DHARMA FOUNDATION’ OF MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION: NON-DUALITY AND MAHĀYĀNA BUDDHIST INFLUENCES IN THE WORK OF JON KABAT-ZINN Contemporary Buddhism July 3, 2018
- Impact of warm mindfulness on emotion regulation: A randomized controlled effectiveness trial. Health Psychology July 6, 2023
and 26 more in the library
Cites 4
- Mindfulness Interventions Annual Review of Psychology September 30, 2016
- What defines mindfulness-based programs? The warp and the weft Psychological Medicine December 29, 2016
- Competence in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Courses: Concepts, Development and Assessment Mindfulness September 21, 2011
- Some reflections on the origins of MBSR, skillful means, and the trouble with maps June 14, 2011