I didn't sleep well for a while, so I found a lot of meditation music apps. Every night, my ears are full of running water and cool breeze, as if the world had become a little cleaner. Later, I heard people recommend mindfulness decompression. It is said that it can not only relieve tension, but also treat many modern diseases such as inattention, fatigue, headache, cervical spondylosis and asthma. It is also reported that even Ma Yun's father introduced mindfulness meditation course to Lakeside University.

However, when meditation and mindfulness are mixed together, people can't help thinking: What's the difference between them? What's the connection? Are they the same thing?

Meditation and mindfulness actually originated from the "meditation" of ancient Indian Buddhism, in which mindfulness was originally regarded as one of the "eight right paths" of the Buddha, and it was regarded as a theory and method to relieve the suffering of practitioners, realize self-awakening, observe the body, receive and observe the mind, and then understand Zen, and reach the realm of "from meditation to wisdom".

However, in the modern context, meditation has got rid of the pure religious meaning and is regarded as a training way to help people adjust their life pressure and improve their quality of life.

Nowadays, we can simply understand meditation and mindfulness as two different ways of meditation. Although they are often discussed together, and even some courses directly focus on "mindfulness meditation", meditation and mindfulness are two completely different ways of attention management, and there are obvious differences between them.

From the perspective of Buddhism, meditation can be divided into meditation and meditation, and it can be basically divided into meditation and mindfulness without too much detail. The simple explanation is:

In short, the difference between the two can be explained in one sentence: meditation emphasizes attention maintenance and aims to trigger a state of relaxation from consciousness; Mindfulness focuses on monitoring attention and emphasizing acceptance without judgment.

What needs to be added is that there is a saying that mindfulness is a sub-category of meditation, and they are often put together to study and discuss each other, which is also helpful to each other. However, this classification is easy to attract people's attention to its * * * nature and confuse the difference between the two. Therefore, as beginners, individuals tend to make a simple and straightforward distinction between the two, which is also convenient for everyone to do selective exercises according to their own needs, preferences and specific situations.