--- title: What is Mindfulness? description: What is Mindfulness? 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Establishing Mental wellbeing is a primary practice of the Theravada Buddhism. It is said to lead to insight into the true nature of self and reality (impermanence, the suffering of conditioned existence and non-self). **Mindful Meditation Arrives in the West** In the 60’s and 70’s, Westerners began going to Southeast Asia to learn their practices. They brought those practices back to the West and began to teach them within the framework of Buddhism and help mental health. 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