<p>If you look at this article which describes <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.html">The Noble Eightfold Path</a>,</p>

<ul>
<li><p><a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.html#ch6">Chapter VI: Right Mindfulness (Samma Sati)</a> talks about "bare attention"</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.html#ch7">Chapter VII: Right Concentration (Samma Samadhi)</a> talks about "centering the mind on an object"</p></li>
</ul>

<p>So I think they're both Buddhist, but one is called "mindfulness" and the other "concentration".</p>

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<p>I’d like to hear some reflections on mindfulness. I’m not talking here about meditation on the three marks or any kind of visualization, but mindfulness. </p>

<p>I am quoting here from B. Allan Wallace’s <em>The Attention Revolution</em>. </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>[One] approach views mindfulness as nondiscriminating,
  moment-to-moment ‘bare awareness’ [and the other] characterizes
  mindfulness as bearing in mind the object of attention, the state of
  not forgetting, not being distracted, and not floating.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Which one of these is the most “genuinely Buddhist” kind of mindfulness?  </p>

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What is the most “genuinely Buddhist” kind of mindfulness?
# What is the most “genuinely Buddhist” kind of mindfulness?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-22)

I’d like to hear some reflections on mindfulness. I’m not talking here about meditation on the three marks or any kind of visualization, but mindfulness.

I am quoting here from B. Allan Wallace’s *The Attention Revolution*.

> [One] approach views mindfulness as nondiscriminating,
> moment-to-moment ‘bare awareness’ [and the other] characterizes
> mindfulness as bearing in mind the object of attention, the state of
> not forgetting, not being distracted, and not floating.

Which one of these is the most “genuinely Buddhist” kind of mindfulness?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-11-22. Score: 8 | Accepted answer

If you look at this article which describes [The Noble Eightfold Path](http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.html),

* [Chapter VI: Right Mindfulness (Samma Sati)](http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.html#ch6) talks about "bare attention"
* [Chapter VII: Right Concentration (Samma Samadhi)](http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.html#ch7) talks about "centering the mind on an object"

So I think they're both Buddhist, but one is called "mindfulness" and the other "concentration".

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I'm looking forward to it!  

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