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Mindfulness meditation in various spiritual traditions

Sergei Vladimirovich Kukharenko
Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University
Submitted: February 10, 2025
Abstract. The aim of the research is to analyze the characteristics of the state of mindfulness in various spiritual traditions. The article examines the description of the state of mindfulness in various spiritual movements, primarily Buddhist ones. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of various terms existing in different religious movements to denote the state of mindfulness. The characteristics accompanying the state of mindfulness, described in various spiritual traditions, including higher clarity of perception, the absence of identification of the practitioner's awareness with the stream of consciousness, and the states of bliss and tranquility experienced by practitioners, are examined in detail. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that it considers the state of mindfulness not only in the Buddhist tradition, but also in several other spiritual movements. The role of mindfulness meditation in Western society is analyzed. As a result of the research, several key characteristics accompanying the state of mindfulness were identified. It was established that mindfulness is an existing state of consciousness that people of different ethnicities and cultures have entered for several millennia. This state of consciousness has received the highest praise in Buddhist movements, but the same state is described from their own experience by Russian philosophers, Western spiritual speakers, secular practitioners of lucid dreaming, and scientists. In recent years, the development of mindfulness has entered the paradigm of the development of spirituality in Western civilization, and there is a tendency to separate the development of mindfulness in the West from the cultural and religious component.
Key words and phrases:
состояние осознанности
буддийские духовные течения
состояния блаженства и покоя
религиозные течения
сати в буддизме
state of mindfulness
Buddhist spiritual traditions
states of bliss and tranquility
religious movements
sati in Buddhism
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