This book explores a wide range of mindfulness and meditative practices and traditions across
Buddhism. It deepens contemporary understanding of mindfulness by examining its relationship
with key Buddhist teachings such as the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eight-Fold Path. In
addition the volume explores how traditional mindfulness can be more meaningfully incorporated
into current psychological research and clinical practice with individuals and groups (e.g.
through the Buddhist Psychological Model). Key topics featured in this volume include: Ethics
and mindfulness in Pali Buddhism and their implications for secular mindfulness-based
applications. Mindfulness of emptiness and the emptiness of mindfulness. Buddhist teachings
that support the psychological principles in a mindfulness program. A practical
contextualization and explanatory framework for mindfulness-based interventions. Mindfulness in
an authentic transformative everyday Zen practice. Pristine mindfulness. Buddhist Foundations
of Mindfulness is an indispensable resource for clinical psychologists and affiliated medical
and mental health professionals including specialists in complementary and alternative
medicine as well as social work as well as teachers of Buddhism and meditation.
