This handbook explores the multifaceted ethical dimensions of mindfulness, from early Buddhist sources to present-day Western interpretations of mindfulness. It takes a modern ethical approach to the study of mindfulness, and traces contemporary mindfulness practice from solitary journey to the global whole. Noted practitioners, teachers, scholars, and other professionals lend diverse perspectives to the debate over the moral content of mindfulness and its status as religious, secular, or post-secular practice. Chapters offer new views on the roots of mindfulness in Buddhist moral teachings, ethical mindfulness in interpersonal relationships, and the necessity of ethics in mindfulness-based education and therapy. Chapters also discuss current debates concerning the ethics of mindfulness across the applied fields of education and pedagogy, business, economics, and the environment.

Chapter 1. Ethical foundations of mindfulness.- Part I: Buddhist Foundations of Ethics and Mindfulness.- Chapter 2. Turning the Wheel of Dharma.- Chapter 3. Mindfulness as Ethical Foundation.- Chapter 4. Forgiveness: Making Beneficial Judgments in Relation to Self and Others.- Chapter 5. Mindfulness, Heedfulness, and Ethics.- Chapter 6. Buddhist Ethics, Spiritual Practice, and the Three Yanas.- Chapter 7. Ethics, Mindfulness, and Skillfulness.- Part II: Education and Pedagogy.- Chapter 8. Co-Creating the Ethical Space of the Mindfulness-Based Interventions.- Chapter 9. The Degeneration of Contemporary Mindfulness: Reasserting the Ethical and Educational Foundations of Practice in Mindfulness-Based Interventions.- Chapter 10. Beyond Manipulation: Radical Humanist and Care Ethics Perspectives on Mindfulness.- Part III: Business, Economics and Environment.- Chapter 11. Co-Arising of Ethics, Mindfulness, and Truth for Freedom of Action.- Chapter 12. The Need for and Nature of Buddhist Economics.- Chapter 13. An ethic of interdependence: Environmental crisis and the case of water scarcity in the American West.- Chapter 14. Sacred Groundlessness: Deepening the Ethics of Mindfulness in the Midst of Global Crisis.- Chapter 15. Madness and Mindfulness: How the "Personal" is "Political".- Part IV: Religion, Secularity, and Post-Secularity.- Chapter 16. Dharma and Diversity.- Chapter 17. Implicit and Explicit Ethics in Mindfulness-Based Programs in a Broader Context.- Chapter 18. Mindfulness and Morality.- Chapter 19. Postsecular Charisma: Thich Nhat Hanh and the Ethics of Mindfulness.