Center for Healthy Minds

Center scholar John Dunne is working on a project tentatively titled, Understanding Mindfulness: An Exploration of Buddhist Contemplative Practice. This book is conceived as a study of meditation practice inspired by the emergence of contemporary modes of mindfulness practice and their sometimes controversial relationship to classical Buddhist theory and practice.

Key themes include:

• Divergent Buddhist models of mind and its dysfunction
• The role of conceptuality and affect in contemplative practice
• Competing interpretations of mindfulness that emerge from dualistic and nondual contexts
• Implications of the nondual approach for contemporary clinical applications