[FairfieldLife] Re: Berggruen Institute

[yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

thx....I've been thinking of contacting Berggruen and informing him of the same 
point you have made; but I doubt he'll listen.
 Even more depressing is that the Mindfulness Center at UCLA (a few blocks from 
Berggruen's Center) focuses "modern" psychiatry and apparently completely 
avoids the transcendentalist component of the original Mindfulness originating 
in Buddhism.  They've unfortunately appropriated the techniques and downgraded 
them into a set of mind/body exercises intended to operate on a superficial 
level.
 Here's another UCLA center - of East-West Medicine - that operates in 
association with the Mindfulness Center.  Looks like those UCLA people have 
capitalized on some trends that eventually could amount to something 
"transcendental" but probably not soon.
   It's somewhat ironic that the SIMS Movement started there, and down the 
street on Gayley Ave with various people associated with Jerry Jarvis.  First 
lecture I heard re: TM was at UCLA by the Wallace and Winthrop Brothers and 
then later by Jerry.  MMY came there in (1968?).
  Don['t have time to explore the reasons why UCLA was the original hotbed of 
the Student's Movement but didn't amount to anything permanent; while there's 
currently a burgeoning Mindfulness Movement.  An important factor is the 
restrictive nature of who can become a teacher.  Any psychiatrist at UCLA can 
put a feather in his cap by becoming a Mindfulness teacher, without any fuss 
from a corrupt organization. This will add to his/her prestige since knowledge 
of Mindfulness gives one the appearance of inside knowledge into the 
inscrutable and mysterious ways of Eastern traditions. Unfortunately, they 
leave out the transcendentalist part.
 I'll dig deeper into this by contacting some of the faculty. Should be 
interesting to hear what they say!
 http://cewm.med.ucla.edu/ http://cewm.med.ucla.edu/