Mindfulness considers the mindfulness-based approaches to medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions that have become increasingly common. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism.

Editors' Foreword 1. Mindfulness: diverse perspectives on its meaning, origins, and multiple applications at the intersection of science and dharma 2. What does mindfulness really mean? A canonical perspective 3. Is mindfulness present-centred and non-judgmental? A discussion of the cognitive dimensions of mindfulness 4. The construction of mindfulness 5. Toward an understanding of non-dual mindfulness 6. How does mindfulness transform suffering? I: the nature and origins of Dukkha 7. How does mindfulness transform suffering? II: the transformation of Dukkha 8. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: culture clash or creative fusion? 9. Compassion in the landscape of suffering 10. Meditation and mindfulness 11. The Buddhist roots of mindfulness training: a practitioners view 12. Mindfulness and loving-kindness 13. Mindfulness in higher education 14. ‘Enjoy your death’: leadership lessons forged in the crucible of organizational death and rebirth infused with mindfulness and mastery 15. Mindfulness, by any other name. . . : trials and tribulations of Sati in western psychology and science 16. Measuring mindfulness 17. On some definitions of mindfulness 18. Some reflections on the origins of MBSR, skillful means, and the trouble with maps