Mindfulness is used to translate the Buddhist term sati, which in Pali means “recollection” or “remembrance.” Right mindfulness is the seventh of eight steps on the Eightfold Path, an early Buddhist heuristic for plotting the path toward enlightenment that is attributed to the Buddha’s teaching. In some of the earlier layers of Buddhism, mindfulness was closely associated with monastic meditation practices. The English term mindfulness encompasses many concepts within Buddhism, and there is no singular authentic mindfulness but rather multiple shades of meaning within the larger tradition and its history.
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