Presence vs Mindfulness - What's the difference?
presence | mindfulness |
The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
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A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with his audience.
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Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
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A company's business activity in a particular market.
The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts
(philosophy) To make or become present.
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* 1985 , David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of K?kai and D?gen ,
* 1998 , H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry ,
* 2005 , James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry , Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804750718 (paperback),
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awareness
inclination to be mindful or aware
(as understood in Buddhism and psychology) paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgementally
* 2014 , Who, What, Why: What Is Mindfulness? , BBC
As nouns the difference between presence and mindfulness
is that presence is the fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand while mindfulness is awareness.As a verb presence
is to make or become present.presence
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(en noun)Antonyms
* absenceDerived terms
* compresence * copresence * presence of mind * real presence * stage presenceVerb
(presenc)page 59,
- Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced' without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are ' presenced .
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- Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.
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- From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
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(wikipedia mindfulness)Noun
(-)- The Oxford English Dictionary "also notes that the term is 'in weakened use'. It's been diluted from its origins to now encompass all manner of meditation techniques, treatments for daily stress, even ways to lose weight."