Mindfulness involves retaining and understanding experience, not just present awareness.
Evidence
Mindfulness is not just present-centered nonjudgmental awareness but involves the mind’s ability to attend to and retain whatever experience one is engaged in so as to develop a clear understanding of the experience and the ability to recollect such experience in the future. (p. 48) Dreyfus (2011) goes on to state that this retention of information, which is integrated into the temporal flow of life, allows a person to make sense of one’s experiences-which is the primary job of the mind. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 665
Categorization
- DEFINE: Dreyfus’s expanded definition of mindfulness — key contrast with Kabat-Zinn’s popular version.
- XREF: Dreyfus’s cognitivist reading of sati connects to debates about whether mindfulness is bare attention or memory/retention. — connects to: Mindfulness involves being aware without judgment. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1130; Mindfulness is a top-down cognitive process, not just present-centered awareness. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 666; Mindfulness allows for nonjudgmental observation of thoughts. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 513 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Mindfulness is a top-down cognitive process, not just present-centered awareness.
#corroborates(0.95) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 666 - Being in the moment is a component of mindfulness.
#qualifies(0.78) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1158 - Mindfulness involves being aware without judgment.
#expands(0.75) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1130 - Mindfulness allows for nonjudgmental observation of thoughts.
#expands(0.72) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 513