A book "The Miracle of Mindfulness" written by Zen Master Yixing has influenced many people. It is said that Liang Wendao, the famous host of Phoenix TV, was influenced by him and embarked on the real path of practice.

Shengxiong learned the mind words on the weekend NO: 598

A book written by Zen Master Yixing has influenced many people. It is said that Phoenix TV famous host Liang Wendao was influenced by it and embarked on the real path of practice.

Zen Master Yixing is one of the most religiously influential monks in the international community today. He is famous for his Zen Master, poet, and humanitarian . Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The epidemic is blocked at home, which is a good time to study quietly. I don’t have the “Miracle of Mindfulness” at hand, so I collected many articles about “ Mindfulness ” from the Internet, including readers’ understanding of the morality after learning “Miracle of Mindfulness” and made 131 pages of PPT. For example:

. "Mindfulness" has attracted people's attention very early

"Mindfulness" was originally derived from Buddhist meditation and developed from meditation, meditation, etc. Purposeful and conscious, pay attention to and be aware of everything in the present, without making any judgment, analysis or reaction to everything in the present, and simply be aware of it and pay attention to it.

"Mindfulness" originated from ancient Indian Pali Sati. This concept first originated from Buddhism and was translated into Mindfulness in English in the 19th century. As early as the end of the 4th century, the word Sati was translated into "mindfulness" or "mindfulness" in Chinese.

"Mentalism" is one of the "Eightfold Paths" to Becoming a Buddha. Whether a practitioner’s thought is mindfulness, whether he has right knowledge can distinguish it. If he practices with right knowledge, he is mindfulness.

The "Eight Right Paths" are: right view, right thinking, right speech, right career, right life, right diligence, right mindfulness, right concentration, etc., eight shortcuts to Nirvana.

"Mindfulness" advocacy: Every day, we are in the miracles of "mindfulness", those miracles that we have not even recognized.

2. Mindfulness in Psychological Science (Mindfulness)

(I) The connotation of mindfulness

In the past 2,500 years, mindfulness has been expressed and developed in Eastern Buddhism in the most detailed and systematic manner. In 1979, Kabakin introduced mindfulness from Buddhism into the field of clinical psychology , secularizing it and giving a widely cited definition of mindfulness from the perspective of operationalism:

Mindfulness is the awareness of the present without evaluation , and mindfulness is not the same as meditation. Meditation is only one of the ways to maintain and improve mindfulness.

Recently, researchers generally believe that there are trait mindfulness and state mindfulness. The former refers to a relatively stable individual difference in mindfulness, while the latter is a state of mindfulness.

Revolving around these two different views on mindfulness, researchers adopt different research methods.

For example, for trait mindfulness, measurement-driven research methods are mostly used for research methods of intervention and empirical sampling design.

(II) The role of mindfulness

, the clinical and work field

The effect of mindfulness in clinical treatment and work situations has been widely supported by research. Among them, mindfulness-based stress relief therapy is effective for both psychological and physiological symptoms. Mindfulness-based treatment can reduce value inconsistent behavior by improving mindfulness levels.

Some scholars even believe that mindfulness is a common factor in all schools of psychotherapy.

2, career field

Mindfulness can promote "work-family" balance, reduce stress, and promote individual and work-related happiness.

However, some scholars have found that although mindfulness can improve work performance to a certain extent, it will reduce work motivation, which may be caused by mindfulness training shifting the individual's perspective from the future focus to the current focus.

3. Cognitive psychology field

Research in the field of cognitive psychology found that mindfulness can improve the recovery process after cognitive conflict tasks, and Gallant believes that mindfulness training helps improve inhibitory function.

Mindfulness may affect the general cognitive control of the domain by keeping attention on a specific object while minimizing the extent of distraction.

State mindfulness researchers believe that mindfulness fluctuates every day and every moment. Not only can mindfulness promote sleep by improving emotions, but good sleep is also one of the factors that ensure the level of mindfulness of the second day.

4, Developmental Psychology fields

Wisdom, self-realization and self-transcendence are three positive psychological qualities that have attracted widespread attention in adult development research.

In Buddhist , wisdom includes understanding the interdependence of reality. Individuals cannot truly have some fixed experience, nor can they maintain an independent and static self-experience. Wisdom involves a transformation of ontological , from a fixed, self as an experience manager to a transient experience and self.

The attachment in the Buddhist context refers to the energy when you are attached to positive experience and avoid negative experience. In Buddhism, all experiences are seen as fleeting, and attempts to control these experiences through attachment are the root of suffering. Therefore, "not attached" and "stop suffering" are related to an interaction with experience, not attached to it, nor require it to control it in a specific way, through approach or avoidance.

Maslow believes that self-realization people are more autonomous, have a deeper acceptance of reality, and are more motivated by personal growth motivation. A high degree of non-attachment can be described as complete acceptance, and both self-realized individuals and non-attached individuals also show a ability to obtain satisfaction from within rather than relying on the external environment.

Self-transcendence is a core component in advanced development theory, referring to transcending attention to the individual self.

People with high self-transcendence focus less on their own interests, have more flexible self-construction, and are less obsessed with their own perspectives. Overall, they have higher attention to others and their lives.

Self-transcendence was initially considered a trait, and Maslow saw it as the highest stage of development. For Maslow, self-transcendence means a trait that distinguishes the self-realizers who focus on realizing their potential from those who transcend their need and potential for realizing their self-concern.

Three types of understanding of mindfulness

1, Whitehead, etc. discussed the role of mindfulness from the perspective of the development of advanced psychological qualities in adults, and believed that high-quality mindfulness can promote the development of wisdom, self-realization and self-transcendence, and this path is mediated by partial mediation of non-attachedness;

2, Brown and Ryan also found that higher mindfulness is related to self-realization;

3, Beitel, etc. believe that three aspects of mindfulness, conscious action, action without evaluation, description rather than comment are related to self-realization.

Three studies on mindfulness

A follow-up study found that the two dimensions of "conscious action" and "description" in prenatal mindfulness can predict the mother's ability to respond to infant pain at 6 months after childbirth.

On the other hand, the relationship between mindfulness and attachment has also received widespread attention. Some studies point out that mindfulness is a mediating variable between attachment and psychological outcomes it produces, and some studies point out that mindfulness can regulate the relationship between attachment and subjective happiness.

The third study of mindfulness, Smit et al. (2018) proposed a model that integrates attachment and mindfulness and applied it to help parents deal with internal working models that cause them to develop non-adaptive anxiety, avoidant attachment strategies in their relationship with their children, and thereby improve family function.

5. The field of social psychology

Mindfulness can have a positive impact on intimacy. For example, mindfulness affects the quality of marriage through emotional regulation and communication, allowing individuals to view intimacy with growth thinking rather than fixed thinking.

Zhang Shengxiong

December 10, 2022 (Saturday)