Welcome To American Mindfulness
The American Tradition of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is sustaining passive and effortless simple focus without doing anything else. While meditation uses one monotonous, repetitious stimulus, mindfulness uses all distractions as a path of focus targets. It requires practice, and that practice can take years. The American Mindfulness tradition accepts the beneficial goals of mindfulness and seeks to speed up those advantages by methods and techniques unique to American thought.
Zen Buddhism Religion
Zen Buddhism mindfulness mediation is calmly attending to multiple stimuli. It does not focus on a single stimulus. This attention is done without analysis, thought, or judgment. In the course of mindfulness meditation, people develop inner peace, contemplation, relaxation, and they seek enlightenment. Unfortunately, achieving these desired benefits can require 20 to 30 years of effort, and it is difficult to remove mindfulness meditation from its Zen Buddhism religious foundation. Americans respect the peaceful nature and universality of Zen, however the predominant spiritual base in the United States is more active and individualistic than Buddhism. Likewise, patience is considered a virtue in America, but being willing to wait decades for a reward is indeed a rare trait. The practice of Zen meditation to produce wise mind is like bloodletting or using leeches to treat a headache. It may be helpful, but it seems a bit drastic. American Mindfulness works with the prevailing culture by using scientifically based methods and technology to more efficiently achieve wise mind.
