Is mindfulness universally wholesome, or not? I'll look at two different viewpoints, one from the Theravāda abhidhamma, and another from a recent monastic scholar.

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✅ Videos mentioned:
Origins of the Buddhist Doctrine of Momentariness —    • Origins of the Buddhist Doctrine of M...  
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✅ Suttas mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/mn108/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/mn10/en/sujato

✅ Books mentioned:
Bhikkhu Anālayo, Satipaṭṭhāna, The Direct Path to Liberation (2003) -- https://amzn.to/3PQJORW

Bhikkhu Anālayo, Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna (2014) -- https://amzn.to/469cPOy

✅ Other resources:
Bhikkhu Anālayo, “Mindfulness Constructs in Early Buddhism and Theravāda: Another Contribution to the Memory Debate” Mindfulness 2018. https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hambu... p. 2.

Andrew Olendzki, “The Construction of Mindfulness” Contemporary Buddhism, 2011 -- https://philpapers.org/rec/OLETCO-3

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00:00 Intro
00:39 Mindfulness and unwholesome mental states
02:47 Wrong mindfulness
05:07 Right mindfulness of hindrances
06:59 Reconciling with the abhidhamma
08:57 Reconciling with the suttas
10:58 Mindfulness’s apparent contradiction

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