APPROACHES TO APPLYING “THE PRINCIPLE OF THE DISCOURSE OF FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS” TO ACCESSING EMOTIONS OF THE CHARACTERS FOR ACTING

Abstract

Actors have to use their bodies, minds, emotions and feelings as tools for their work. Although there are many international acting techniques, but actors must find ways to use appropriate acting techniques to approach, persist, and leave the characters emotions and emotional states when the show ends. Because some characters have experiences different from their actors, such as being violent, aggressive, or mentally prone to psychiatric disorders. Actors need to find techniques to approach, persist, and leave the charactersemotions and emotional states safely for their own physical and mental health. This article therefore presents the idea how to apply the four foundations of mindfulness which is the core of Buddhism as a technique to approach, persist, and leave the character emotions and emotional states with the scope of the practice period of 1 month by practicing mindfulness in four foundations, together with body, feeling, mind and Dharma. Practicing mindfulness according to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness is the basis for preparing actors physically and mentally to understand the reality that we are actors who have been known and understood the feelings of the characters with conscious determination while performing and at the end of the show. We were conscious and able to leave of the emotional states.