Ep 19: Secular vs Buddhist mindfulness. What's the difference? (Ft Dr Yeoh Kar Kheng)

You don't have to be religious to practise mindfulness and meditation. But we also can't deny that there is a huge overlap between secular mindfulness and mindfulness in Buddhism. So what are the differences and why does it matter? And as Buddhists, how do you know if you are progressing on your path? 

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About our guest: 

Dr. Yeoh Kar Kheng has over 15 years of experience in practising and teaching Mindfulness and is a certified trainer under the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, teaching scientific-based mindfulness and emotional intelligence curriculum developed and tested at Google.

Dr Yeoh is also the founder and project leader of Mindful@Sejahtera, Mindfulness for Everyone Program under D’Home Mental Health Association, and the chairman of Malaysia Mindfulness Association.

More about him

• Bite-sized videos about Mindfulness (In Mandarin) 


• LinkedIn 

Timestamp:

(0:40) : Dr Yeoh’s introduction to meditation and Buddhism

(10:58) : Difference between secular and Buddhist meditation

(11:52) : Mindfulness does not belong to Buddhists

(17:42) : The 4Rs of mindfulness

(20:27) : Buddhist mindfulness: Right mindfulness

(21:31) : The Noble Eightfold Path

(22:04) : Right View

(22:57) :The Three characteristics of life

(27:05) : The three ways of wisdom

(27:31) : You don’t need to be a Buddhist to know these

(33:46) : Wrong mindfulness

(34:49) : What constitutes meditation?

(42:15) : Not mindful, no problem

(43:00) : Is there any way to know we are progressing?

(43:25) : Are you merely a chicken who can sit still?

Transcript: 

bit.ly/3FsZKUa

Resources: 

10-day Vipassana meditation: 

• https://sg.dhamma.org/


• https://www.dhamma.org/en/

The Noble Eightfold path

• Talk by Ajahn Sujato

Thank you to our sponsors for this episode: 

Alvin Chan, Tan Jia Yee, Siau Yan Chen, Tan Key Seng, Ven You Guang, Soh Hwee hoon, Wilson Tan.