"Somatics of early Buddhist mindfulness and how to face anxiety": Correction

ABSTRACT

Reports in an error in "Somatics of early Buddhist mindfulness and how to face anxiety" by Analayo Bhikku (Mindfulness, 2020[May], Vol 11[6], 1520-1526 ). The author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2021 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (The following is from the original article that appeared in (see record 2020-31995-001). The body is a central object of the cultivation of mindfulness, in the way this has been described in relevant Pali discourses and their parallels. At the background of such cultivation stands the absence of positing a mind-body duality and a lack of concern with a particular physical location of the mind in early Buddhist thought. Moreover, the various exercises that involve directing mindfulness to the body need to be considered in conjunction in order to arrive at a balanced understanding of their overarching purpose. Out of the different possible modalities of cultivating mindfulness in this way, the discourses present awareness directed to one's own bodily postures as a practice already undertaken by the Buddha-to-be when he was still in quest of awakening. In this particular setting, such mindfulness of postures served as a way of facing fear. The potential of this exercise to provide a grounding in embodied mindfulness, being fully in the here and now, is of particular relevance to the challenges posed by the current pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)