I use the word mindfulness in a lot of different ways, some narrower and some broader. Sometimes I use mindfulness as a kind of umbrella term for the dharma. But in terms of an operational definition of mindfulness ... I tend to speak of it as an awareness oriented in the present moment and cultivated by paying attention on purpose with a discerning, nonjudging, nonreacting, mirrorlike quality of mind which is underneath discursive thinking. -Jon Kabat-Zinn 

in Mindfulness: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation? A Conversation with Jan Chozen Bays, Joseph Goldstein, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Alan Wallace 

https://www.inquiringmind.com/issue/2202-spring-2006-practice/

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see also

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One Dharma -Joseph Goldstein

https://www.inquiringmind.com/issue/2202-spring-2006-practice/

 

Some reflections on the origins of MBSR, skillful means, and the trouble with maps -Jon Kabat-Zinn

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14639947.2011.564844

 

THE ‘UNIVERSAL DHARMA FOUNDATION’ OF MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14639947.2018.1572329