Although there have been hundreds of
studies on meditation utilizing many different types of
manuals, few if any of the protocols rely exclusively on
the Buddhist source culture which their mindfulness-based
interventions are based on. In reviewing the literature,
Dr. Fallah shows how mindfulness investigators fall into
one of three research approaches and he makes an argument
for how to coherently apply primary source manuals and
paradigms as found within other traditions like Buddhism to
current social scientific and clinical discourse. Dr.
Fallah reviews the role of metacognition in cognitive
psychology and provides important points distinguishing
metacognitive insight from metacognitive knowledge.
Finally, the results of his study in clinically applying
the Buddhist text, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying,
is presented.