![]() Yes, it does work for reducing stress, and making people happier. It is being taught by well-meaning people, without regard to the context of the original meditation traditions. As a Buddhist priest involved in teaching meditation for the last eight or nine years, I have seen meditation and mindfulness increasingly advertised as a means to reduce stress and anxiety. So says Ron Purser the author of “McMindfulness: how capitalism hijacked the Buddhist teaching of mindfulness”, in an interview with Mary Hynes on CBC Radio’s Tapestry, “a weekly guide through the messy business of being human.” ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, mindfulness, a tool of awakening, is being used to perpetuate our massive distraction from the major problem of our times: climate change. In a tragic twist of irony, mindfulness is used to calm the overworked Silicon Valley inventors whose job it is to create new and better apps to amuse us. It is pushed by big business to put the onus of responsibility on the very workers the businesses have stressed by their all-out race to make investors happy. These are good things, but mindfulness is also taught to soldiers to make them better killers. ![]() Mindfulness, such a big push in the media these days, has been used among other things to reduce stress, anxiety, and migraines, perhaps give us a sense of peace for a few moments a day. ![]()
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