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Aiming and Sustaining
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Kabat-Zinn, J.
- 학회/출판사/기관명Springer Science and Business Media
- 출판년도2015
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Mindfulness
- 발행사항Vol.6No.3[2015]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN1868-8527
- 소개/요약A colleague coming off retreat said she thought meditation practice was all about aiming the attention and then sustaining that focus moment by moment. I wrote it off at the time as being pretty self-evident, almost trivial. Besides, it had too much of a sense of agency to it, I thought to myself, judgingly, too much of a sense of doing something, and therefore too much reliance on someone to be doing the doing. It took me years for the value of that insight to sink in and be revealed as fundamental.For just as breathing doesn’t necessitate a “someone” we have to think of as the “breather” in any fundamental way, although we can fabricate the thought of one (such as “the breather—that must be me of course, I am breathing”), aiming and sustaining don’t necessitate someone to do the aiming or sustaining either, although again, we can artificially make one up, and are pretty much bound to do so at first out of our persistent habit of “selfing.” But really, both aiming and sustaining come ...
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