You are currently logged-out. You can log-in or create an account to see more talks, save favorites, and more.

Mindfulness Talks

Mindfulness is the cognitive skill, usually developed through meditation, of sustaining meta-attentive awareness towards the contents of one's own mind in the present moment. Mindfulness derives from sati, a significant element of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and is based on Chan, Guān, and Tibetan meditation techniques. Though definitions and techniques of mindfulness are wide-ranging, Buddhist traditions describe what constitutes mindfulness, such as how perceptions of the past, present and future arise and cease as momentary sense-impressions and mental phenomena. Individuals who have contributed to the popularity of mindfulness in the modern Western context include Thích Nhất Hạnh, Joseph Goldstein, Herbert Benson, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Richard J. Davidson.

Clinical psychology and psychiatry since the 1970s have developed a number of therapeutic applications based on mindfulness for helping people experiencing a variety of psychological conditions. Mindfulness practice has been employed to reduce depression, stress, anxiety, and in the treatment of drug addiction. Programs based on mindfulness models have been adopted within schools, prisons, hospitals, veterans' centers, and other environments, and mindfulness programs have been applied for additional outcomes such as for healthy aging, weight management, athletic performance, helping children with special needs, and as an intervention during early pregnancy.

Clinical studies have documented both physical- and mental-health benefits of mindfulness in different patient categories as well as in healthy adults and children. Studies have shown a positive relationship between trait mindfulness (which can be cultivated through the practice of mindfulness-based interventions) and psychological health. The practice of mindfulness appears to provide therapeutic benefits to people with psychiatric disorders, including moderate benefits to those with psychosis. Studies also indicate that rumination and worry contribute to a variety of mental disorders, and that mindfulness-based interventions can enhance trait mindfulness and reduce both rumination and worry. Further, the practice of mindfulness may be a preventive strategy to halt the development of mental-health problems. Mindfulness practices have been said to enable individuals to respond more effectively to stressful situations by helping them strike the balance between over-identification and suppression of their emotional experiences by finding the middle point which is recognition and acceptance.

Evidence suggests that engaging in mindfulness meditation may influence physical health. For example, the psychological habit of repeatedly dwelling on stressful thoughts appears to intensify the physiological effects of the stressor (as a result of the continual activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis) with the potential to lead to physical-health-related clinical manifestations. Studies indicate that mindfulness meditation, which brings about reductions in rumination, may alter these biological clinical pathways. Further, research indicates that mindfulness may favorably influence the immune system as well as inflammation, which can consequently impact physical health, especially considering that inflammation has been linked to the development of several chronic health conditions. Other studies support these findings.

Critics have questioned both the commercialization and the over-marketing of mindfulness for health benefits—as well as emphasizing the need for more randomized controlled studies, for more methodological details in reported studies and for the use of larger sample-sizes. While mindfulness-based interventions may be effective for youth, research has not determined methods in which mindfulness could be introduced and delivered in schools.

From Mindfulness on Wikipedia

Showing 71 talks
 

- Reset Search

Title Speaker

Four Offerings Inspired by the Flower Adornment Scripture

Mindfulness, Practice, Offering
Mar 22 2025
No Abode Hermitage Online

Sitting in the Presence of Buddha

A Dharma talk by Tenshin Roshi for a gathering of the No Abode community.

 

Mindfulness, Birth-and-Death, resistance, Consciousness
Nov 04 2023
PM
No Abode Hermitage

Going Deeper into our Bodhisattva Samadhi

A talk given to the No Abode Community on October 7th, 2023

 

Avatamsaka Sutra, Flower Adornment Sutra, Samantabhadra, Samadhi, Bodhisattva Vow,...
Oct 07 2023
AM
No Abode Hermitage

Zen Meditation on Our Original Nature, Class 1

In this series of gatherings we will explore and perhaps realize our original nature, and how to apply such a discovery to all of our daily activities. 

#YRB-2023-Spring1, Original Nature, Emotions, War, Precious Mirror, Zazen,...
Mar 21 2023
1 of 8
The Yoga Room

Zen Meditation on Karma and Awakening - April 26th, 2022

#YRB-2022-Spring, Consciousness, Karma, Mindfulness
Apr 26 2022
4
Yoga Room

February 6th, 2020, Serial No. 04511

Zazen, Delusion, Mindfulness
Feb 06 2020

Teachings for the Welfare of the World

In this summer series, teachings will be offered for those who aspire to embrace and sustain the great earth and all living beings in order to realize peace and freedom in our troubled world.

...
YRB-2019-Summer, Silence, Mindfulness, Addiction, japanese, zen meditation, Duality,...
Jul 23 2019
5/7
The Yoga Room

Silent Sitting & Social Action

Zen students often ask how our practice of silence and stillness relates to injustice and our environmental crisis. In this class we explore this question and study the intimate interplay of...

YRB-2018-Fall, Intimacy, Silence, Doubt, Addiction, unconscious process, Attachment,...
Nov 20 2018
6 of 7
The Yoga Room

Silent Sitting and Social Action

All compounded phenomena are unworthy of confidence. Compassion to these unstable phenomena is our practice. Zen stories are about enacting awakening within social interactions. Attend to your body,...

Compassion, Four Foundations, Practice Period, Practice Period, Mindfulness, Observe...
Oct 20 2018
PM
No Abode Hermitage

Teachings and Meditations On Our True Nature

Our true nature is that we fully possess the wisdom and virtues of the buddhas. But because of misconceptions and attachments we do not realize our buddha nature. Therefore, teachings are given to...

YRB-2018-Summer, Buddha Nature, Buddha, Mindfulness
Jul 03 2018
2/7
The Yoga Room

July 3rd, 2018, Serial No. 04441

Buddha Nature, Mindfulness, Original Nature
Jul 03 2018

January 18th, 2018, Serial No. 04406

Stillness, Consciousness, Mindfulness
Jan 18 2018

January 7th, 2018, Serial No. 04401

Desire, Practice Period, Mindfulness
Jan 07 2018

The Teaching of the Buddha’s Whole Lifetime

Yunmen's appropriate response; being Buddha right where you are: Master Ma being ready to die;

Koan, Mindfulness, Delusion, Nirvana
Aug 05 2017
AM
No Abode Hermitage

November 13th, 2016, Serial No. 04331

Letting Go, Mill Valley, Mindfulness
Nov 13 2016

November 13th, 2016, Serial No. 04334

Letting Go, Mill Valley, Mindfulness
Nov 13 2016

November 3rd, 2016, Serial No. 04326

Zazen, Mindfulness, Practice
Nov 03 2016

October 23rd, 2016, Serial No. 04316

Ego, Posture, Mindfulness
Oct 23 2016

October 23rd, 2016, Serial No. 04318

Ego, Posture, Mindfulness
Oct 23 2016

November 17th, 2014, Serial No. 04169

Mindfulness, Perfect Wisdom, Blue Cliff Record
Nov 17 2014

April 17th, 2014, Serial No. 04129

Perfect Wisdom, Mindfulness, Japan
Apr 17 2014

Essence of Mind: Daowu Teaches the Essential Gate to Truth

Sesshin Dharma Talk

Dragons, Mindfulness, Perfect Wisdom, Doubt, Faith
Jan 22 2014
Green Gulch Farm

Friendship as the Path to Enlightenment

Wisdom, Name, Mindfulness
Jan 22 2014

January 21st, 2014, Serial No. 04101

Breath, Mindfulness, Zazen
Jan 21 2014

Remembering Fred Maroth

Faith, Community, Heart Sutra, Mindfulness, resistance
Nov 23 2013
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

October 28th, 2013, Serial No. 04077

Zazen, Posture, Mindfulness
Oct 28 2013

August 11th, 2013, Serial No. 04067

Posture, Breath, Mindfulness
Aug 11 2013

August 11th, 2013, Serial No. 04068

Breath, Posture, Mindfulness
Aug 11 2013

Observing the Breathing Body and the Mind of No Abode 

Posture, Breath, Perfect Wisdom, Observe, Mindfulness
Aug 10 2013
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

On Breathing 

Posture, Breath, Confession-and-Repentance, Mindfulness, Observe
Aug 08 2013
The Yoga Room

August 8th, 2013, Serial No. 04064

Posture, Breath, Mindfulness
Aug 08 2013

On the Body 

Mindfulness, Posture, Lotus Sutra, Emptiness, Thoroughness
Dec 13 2012
The Yoga Room

December 13th, 2012, Serial No. 04020

Mindfulness, Posture, Lotus Sutra
Dec 13 2012

A Family Style for Realizing the Oneness of All Families 

true dharma, Precepts, Lay, Mindfulness
Mar 10 2012
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

The Bodhisattva's Creativity and Freedom 

Letting Go, Mindfulness, Breath, Practice Period
Nov 17 2011
The Yoga Room

On Enlightenment and Delusion 

Silence, Posture, Karmic Consciousness, Mindfulness
Nov 19 2009
The Yoga Room

April 25th, 2009, Serial No. 03651

Posture, Mindfulness, Soto Zen
Apr 25 2009

April 24th, 2009, Serial No. 03650

resistance, Mindfulness, Faith
Apr 24 2009

Buddha Sitting as Us; Us Sitting as Buddha 

Funeral, Emptiness, Mindfulness, Precepts, confusion
Oct 18 2008
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

Buddha Sitting as Us; Us Sitting as Buddha 

Lotus Sutra, Emptiness, War, Mindfulness
Oct 18 2008
Afternoon
No Abode Hermitage

September 16th, 2008, Serial No. 03588

Mindfulness, Lotus Sutra, Enemies
Sep 16 2008

Practicing the Four Frames of Mindfulness as Gates to Totality 

Mindfulness, confusion, Attachment, Breath
Sep 06 2008
Afternoon
No Abode Hermitage

September 6th, 2008, Serial No. 03586

Mindfulness, Posture, Oneness
Sep 06 2008

September 6th, 2008, Serial No. 03587

Ceremony, Openness, Mindfulness
Sep 06 2008

Entering and Embodying Truth 

Mindfulness, Posture, Enemies, Cultivation, Discrimination
Jul 15 2008
The Yoga Room

July 15th, 2008, Serial No. 03576

Mindfulness, Posture, Discrimination
Jul 15 2008

January 22nd, 2008, Serial No. 03520

Concentration, Mindfulness, Healing
Jan 22 2008

2008, Serial No. 03617

Mindfulness, Four Foundations, Posture
2008

March 29th, 2007, Serial No. 03418

Anger, Mindfulness, Four Foundations
Mar 29 2007

December 13th, 2006, Serial No. 03385

Practice Period, Dogen, Mindfulness
Dec 13 2006

Pages