Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, CORO West, Suite 309, 164 Summit Avenue, Providence 02903, RI, United States.
Explore (NY). 2022 Sep-Oct;18(5):509-514. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2021.05.005. Epub 2021 May 26.
'Mindfulness' has become a mainstream component of American culture and a successful business worth more than 1 billion dollars. Born out of Buddhist contemplative traditions that reached the West in the mid-1960s, secular mindfulness programs have spread both geographically (to the US and Europe) and socially (to healthcare, academia, politics, the military, and finance). The diffusion of mindfulness practice to domains that are culturally and socially so different from its original Buddhist context has had important consequences. This manuscript will examine some of these consequences as well as some challenges generated by the encounter between the American culture and Eastern millennial contemplative traditions. With the purpose of increasing awareness about these issues and to generate a debate within the mindfulness community, some suggestions on how to face such challenges are then offered to mindfulness researchers, instructors, and health care providers interested in alleviating the suffering of their patients using mindfulness meditation.
“正念”已成为美国主流文化的一部分，也是一项价值超过 10 亿美元的成功产业。它起源于 20 世纪 60 年代中期传入西方的佛教禅修传统，此后，非宗教性质的正念项目在地域上（扩展到美国和欧洲）和社会层面上（进入医疗保健、学术界、政治、军事和金融领域）都得到了广泛传播。正念实践在文化和社会背景与佛教发源地如此不同的领域中的传播，产生了重要的影响。本文将探讨这些影响，以及美国文化与东方千年冥想传统相遇所带来的一些挑战。为了提高对这些问题的认识，并在正念领域内引发一场辩论，本文还为有兴趣使用正念冥想减轻患者痛苦的正念研究人员、教师和医疗保健提供者提供了一些应对这些挑战的建议。
