By Ronald E. Purser

This guide explores mindfulness philosophy and perform because it services in today’s socioeconomic, cultural, and political panorama. Chapters talk about the various ways that vintage ideas and practices of mindfulness conflict, converge, and impression glossy theories and strategies, and vice versa. specialists throughout many disciplines handle the secularization and commercialization of Buddhist options, the medicalizing of mindfulness in cures, and innovative makes use of of mindfulness in schooling. The publication addresses the increase of the, “mindfulness movement”, and the center matters in the back of the evaluations of the transforming into approval for mindfulness. It covers a variety of dichotomies, corresponding to conventional as opposed to smooth, non secular as opposed to secular, and commodification as opposed to serious notion and probes past the East/West binary to bigger questions of economics, philosophy, ethics, and, eventually, meaning.
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Brown is author of The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789– 1880 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004); Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Harvard University Press, 2012); and The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America (Oxford University Press, 2013). She is editor of Global Pentecostal and Charismatic xxxiii xxxiv Healing (Oxford University Press, 2011) and co-editor (with Mark Silk) of The Future of Evangelicalism in America (Columbia University Press, 2016).

They admit that clinging to what is impermanent brings suffering, but take this connection to mean, not that one should renounce the impermanent in favor of the imperishable nibbāna, but that one should learn to live in the world with an open mind and loving heart, capable of experiencing everything with awe and wonder. The practice of mindfulness thus leads through the door of impermanence and selflessness to a new affirmation and appreciation of the world, so that one can joyfully savor each fleeting event, each relationship, each undertaking in its wistful evanescence, unperturbed when it passes.

He is the author of a number of books including: Early Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism (SUNY Press, 1995); Orientalism and Religion: India, Postcolonial Theory and “The Mystic East” (1999, Routledge), and Indian Philosophy. An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought (Edinburgh and Georgetown University Presses), and Selling Spirituality (co-authored with Jeremy Carrette, Routledge, 2005). His xxxvi current research explores ethical issues in both classical apophatic literature and the impact of global capitalism on representations of mindfulness.

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