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Integrated Model of Mindful Practice: Focusing on Three Aspects of Mindfulness

JANG, JIN YOUNG 1

1원광대학교

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Mindfulness is a representative meditation method that is attracting attention in various fields of modern society today, derived from “sati,” one of the important mind qualities of early Buddhism. However, mindfulness is facing various criticisms due to the change in meaning in the process of translating “sati”, the intentional reduction or exclusion of the overall context of Buddhist practice in the process of applying the program, and Buddhism's passive attitude toward various problems in modern society. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement or expand the meaning of mindfulness. The supplementation and expansion of mindfulness needs to consider the overall context of Buddhist practice. This will first compensate for the meaning that mindfulness was not sufficiently contained in the translation process, and furthermore, it will be possible to compensate for the intentionally reduced or excluded parts, especially the ethical aspect of mindfulness. So first, we looked at the changed process of Buddhist threefold practice, and supplemented the three aspects of mindfulness according to the threefold practice system. Sotaesan, the founder of Won Buddhism, summarizes Ilwonsang's 一圓相 truth into three categories: Voidness or Emptiness 空, Completeness 圓, and Rightness 正. This can be applied to our minds as it is, and we looked at it in three aspects: nature, phenomenon, and action. The nature is the place where “discrimination has disappeared,” the phenomenon is the place where “accepting and observing the appeared discrimination as it is,” and the action is the place where “selecting discrimination between right and wrong.” Accordingly, mindfulness or awareness can also be seen in three aspects: (1) “phenomenon-mindfulness” or mindfulness to accept and observe phenomena as they are, (2) “nature-mindfulness” or mindfulness as original nature itself, and (3) “action-mindfulness” or mindfulness to practice with heedfulness. We can supplement and expand the meaning of mindfulness in the overall context of Buddhist practice by proposing an integrated model of mindful practice that encompasses the three aspects of mindfulness. And by using this model, we can overcome the various criticisms and limitations imposed on mindfulness.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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