#337 Mindfulness Meditation & Discriminating Mind

     "mindfulness meditation arose as a method to help a person let go of his or her discriminating mind by letting go of one’s usual identifications with the contents of consciousness. Discriminating mind can easily lead to an attitude of obtaining something, an attempt to acquire more control of the self or of one’s experience by obtaining increased awareness and understanding. It can be helpful, then, to consider the complementary practice of Zen shikantaza (‘just sitting’) meditation. Shikantaza eschews both attainment and even observing awareness; instead, it emphasizes dropping discriminating mind (although it includes discriminating mind, because it even involves dropping dropping). The emphasis is on letting go, to an opening up to ‘this Very Mind,’ which is not overly attached to ‘understanding.’ ’’ 

       Rosenbaum R. Empty mindfulness in humanistic psychotherapy. The Humanistic Psychologist 2009; 37(2): 207-221.

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