Mindfulness Revisited: A Buddhist-Based Conceptualization
Rather than applying mindfulness as a means to awaken individuals 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.24
Ronald E. Purser • McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
Mindfulness is nothing more than basic concentration training. Although derived from Buddhism, it’s been stripped of the teachings on ethics that accompanied it, as well as the liberating aim of dissolving attachment to a false sense of self while enacting compassion for all other beings. What remains is a tool of self-discipline, disguised as
... See moreRonald E. Purser • McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
“Buddhist teachers Ronald Purser and Andrew Cage are even more forthright: The rapid mainstreaming of mindfulness has provided a domesticated and tame set of meditation techniques for mainly upper-middle-class and corporate elites so they may become more self accepting of their anxieties, helping them to 'thrive;' to have it all - money, power and... See more