[FairfieldLife] Re: How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 

 People do make a same indictment of a secular presentation of transcendental 
meditation and a culture in its business .orgs..  Does the stripping away of 
spiritual revival in the presentation necessarily say more about about the 
people and the institution than the practice of meditation. 
 

"..authors argued that a “stripped down, secular technique” of mindfulness 
originating in Buddhism not just fails to serve to awaken people and 
organizations from “the unwholesome roots of greed, ill will and delusion, it 
is usually being refashioned into a banal, therapeutic, self-help technique 
that can actually reinforce those roots."
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

 The spiritual moral bypass..
 

"By negating and downplaying actual social and political contexts and focusing 
on the individual, or more so, the individual’s brain, McMindfulness 
interventions ignore seeing our inseparability from all others. They ignore 
seeing our inseparability from inequitable cultural patterns and social 
structures that affect and constitute our relations, and thereby ourselves. 
McMindfulness thus forfeits the moral demand that follows this insight: to 
challenge social inequities and enact universal compassion, service and social 
justice in all forms of human endeavor."
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :

 How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry 

 

 
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry
 
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry