Mindfulness, by any other name...: trials and tribulations of sati in western psychology and science
Mindfulness, by any other name...: trials and tribulations of sati in western psychology and science
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DOI：
10.1080/14639947.2011.564841
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Van Dam, Nicholas T.
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作者：
Grossman, Paul;Van Dam, Nicholas T.
佛教对正念的构思是以正念为基础的干预的核心要素，源于几千年来为调查主观经验而发展起来的系统现象学方案。西方心理学和其他科学中对“正念”的热情导致了定义、操作和自我报告清单的激增，这些清单声称要将正念意识作为一种特征来衡量。本文讨论了当前关于正念特征的一些看似棘手的问题，并强调了这一领域的一些弱点，这些弱点可能导致与正念相关的佛教概念的变性、扭曲、稀释或物化。要用详细而复杂的佛教精神现象学来丰富西方的实证主义心理学范式，可能需要比心理学家和其他科学家目前常见的更多的研究和长期的直接洞察冥想练习。追求这样一种方法似乎是试图描述和量化正念的必要前提。
The Buddhist construct of mindfulness is a central element of mindfulness-based interventions and derives from a systematic phenomenological programme developed over several millennia to investigate subjective experience. Enthusiasm for 'mindfulness' in Western psychological and other science has resulted in proliferation of definitions, operationalizations and self-report inventories that purport to measure mindful awareness as a trait. This paper addresses a number of seemingly intractable issues regarding current attempts to characterize mindfulness and also highlights a number of vulnerabilities in this domain that may lead to denaturing, distortion, dilution or reification of Buddhist constructs related to mindfulness. Enriching positivist Western psychological paradigms with a detailed and complex Buddhist phenomenology of the mind may require greater study and long-term direct practice of insight meditation than is currently common among psychologists and other scientists. Pursuit of such an approach would seem a necessary precondition for attempts to characterize and quantify mindfulness.