Close Association with Wisdom The last aspect of mindfulness is its close association with wisdom. This comes about through bare attention and clear comprehension. The quality of bare attention can manifest on different levels and is called different things in the various Buddhist traditions: mindfulness, naked awareness, innate wakefulness. It is naked and bare because it is simple, direct, noninterfering, and nonjudging. It’s not making up stories about experience; it’s just the simple awareness of things as they are.
