Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
by stjohnswarts on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:01PM
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I love how when the west gets something and does its own interpretation that it's "watered" down as if the west can do nothing right and we're all spiritually and morally bankrupt idiots.
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Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
by beaconstudios on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:34PM
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the West has its own spiritual traditions, that the type of people who meditation is pitched towards have completely abandoned. Mindfulness and such are spiritual practices stripped of their philosophical roots and repackaged in a consumable form.
If SE Asian companies were selling the Lord's Prayer as a quick de-stressing technique for busy atheist office workers, I'd say they were missing the point too.
Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
by denton-scratch on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:56PM
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> Mindfulness and such are spiritual practices stripped of their philosophical roots
Mindfulness is only stripped of it's "philosophical" (read: spiritual) roots, if you strip them. Perhaps you are confusing commercialised "mindfulness" with mindfulness.
Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
by beaconstudios on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:59PM
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Yeah I'm specifically talking about the commercialised form.
Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
by dingleberry41 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:23PM
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Would that make the Lord's Prayer twice repackaged (or re-gifted if you will) since it's a middle eastern practice already packaged as a consumable for the West?
Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
by beaconstudios on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @06:52AM
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No it wouldn't. There's a difference between a religion spreading, and taking the bits you like and secularising them like it's some kind of feel good buffet.