Mindfulness as Ethical Foundation (original) (raw)

Mindfulness in behavioral health, 2018

Abstract

This chapter examines all major references to mindfulness in the classic Buddhist canonical text, Majjhima Nikāya (MN), and throws light upon the original meaning of unremitting (and largely unconscious because fully internalized) mindfulness as the true foundation of a naturally ethical life. This notion of inherent ethicality is contrasted with the boundary ethics normal in contemporary society. It is suggested that the creation of a modern “utilitarian” mindfulness, accommodated to this latter approach to ethics, has obscured the meaning of mindfulness in its original context. The material analyzed here shows original mindfulness as itself the foundation of ethics, not as an activity in need of an ethical framework.

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