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Mindfulness has come to mean more than the traditional Buddhist concept of sati.

No single English word precisely captures the meaning of sati in Buddhist meditation.

Contemporary mindfulness includes recollection, clear comprehension, and heedfulness.

Mindfulness has become an accessible umbrella term across Buddhist and secular practice.

Mindfulness has become an increasingly popular term in the west due to the influence of several prominent meditation teachers and authors, including Thich Nhat Hanh, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Jack Kornfield. Thich Nhat Hanh, world-renowned Vietnamese Zen master, poet and peace activist, defines mindfulness as “the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn, author and founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, widely taught in secular settings including health care, education and business worldwide, writes “Mindfulness can be thought of as moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness, cultivated by paying........

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