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Re:Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety by tgflynn on Monday August 17, 2020 @11:39AM (#24188258)
One might argue that stoicism would be one such case, though I don't think it developed techniques anywhere near as sophisticated as those of Eastern traditions.

As for Buddhism, which is at the root of what most people mean by "meditation" today, calling it a religion is a bit problematic because it doesn't involve worshiping gods and, in theory at least, is not supposed to be primarily faith based. Both of those things: god worship and faith seem so fundamental to the western concept of religion that applying that term uncritically to Buddhism seems ill-founded.

Re:Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety by thevardanian on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:14PM (#24193413)
Buddhism while not worshipping Gods, does not deny their existence, or rather a more familiar phrase would be deny the existence of "higher beings".

So it is neither atheistic nor theistic.