Roskilde University, Denmark.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2019 Aug;28:298-301. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.03.016. Epub 2019 Apr 2.
The ideas of mindfulness and no-self are intimately connected in Buddhist philosophy. This is because, in Buddhist Philosophy, the practice of mindfulness leads to the realization that there is no self. In contemporary mindfulness in psychology, the no-self theory has not played such a basic role. An outline of Buddhist philosophy is given showing how the 'root delusion' of having a self lies at the base of human suffering and how mindfulness, when appropriately deployed, enables one to free oneself from this delusion and thus achieve psychological well-being. This is not to say that mindfulness based interventions do not help to alleviate suffering. Nor is it to say that people working in these areas should not use mindfulness in their own way. It is only to say that by ignoring the no-self experience, teachers and practioners are falling short of achieving what mindfulness was originally employed to achieve.
正念和无我这两个概念在佛教哲学中紧密相连。这是因为在佛教哲学中，正念的修行会让人认识到无我。在当代心理学的正念研究中，无我理论并没有起到这样的基础作用。本文概述了佛教哲学，展示了“人有自我”这一根本错觉是如何导致人类痛苦的，以及正念如何通过适当的运用使人从这种错觉中解脱出来，从而获得心理幸福感。这并不是说正念干预不能帮助减轻痛苦。也不是说在这些领域工作的人不应该以自己的方式使用正念。只是说，如果忽视无我体验，教师和从业者就无法实现正念最初的目标。
