Is interesting in the article how they define and expect revolution. However evidently a regular practice of meditation, even mindfulness meditation, evidently brings change to the individual and society as a Meissner-like Effect (ME) of meditators on groups. Political struggle could hope that society could transform individuals. But someone asserting trope that meditating ‘does not require change’ like the critique entailed in this article is asserting old school marxist criticism that it is social struggles which shape individual condition in transformational (revolutionary) change and not necessarily the other way around, denying the collective (corporate?) effect of the individual. Assertion from the article: “..mindfulness as a practice and discourse focused on the self minimizes social critique and change and contributes to keeping existing social injustices and inequitable power structures intact. There is nothing revolutionary about the so-called Mindful Revolution. Chris Goto-Jones says: “The revolution doesn’t require any particular change in values or economic systems … For a revolution this movement shows remarkable conservatism. The leading voices make no demands on followers. They need not become activists or participate in political struggle.”
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : 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 their 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." (Note where someone points three fingers are pointing back at the person) ---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
