Mindfulness, Nothing Special, Yet Special!

Abstract

This is a response to Maureen Cavill’s paper written following the publication of mine entitled ‘Mindfulness – A Lived Experience of Existential-Phenomenological Themes’ (Nanda, 2009), in Existential Analysis 20.1: January 2009. Key words Mindfulness, assumptions, ‘tool’, ‘technique’, formal practice, remembering to re-orient, present, noticing, existential-phenomenological, phenomenology, Cavill, Thich Nhat Hanh, Suzuki, ‘big mind’