Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and feelings are “right”

Re:Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and fe... by excoder on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:05PM (#12346521)

Sometimes those who are most in need of this wisdom are least willing to accept it in its traditional forms.

Presenting mindfulness in a form that can reach the people who are not easily moved by the older forms of "evangelism" (e.g. monks living in poverty in a monastery, doing good works in their community) seems to me like a highly worthwhile pursuit.

[EDIT] ... yes, even if the concealed motive is to sell copies of yet another book about mindfulness.

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Re:Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and fe... by merpnderp on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @07:53AM (#12351324)

That was hardly the only motive, even if the primary one. Easing the suffering in the world was also a primary driver, as were a pethora of other, just as, or much less, worthy goals.

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