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Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown by beaconstudios on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:34PM (#27899667)
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.

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Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown by denton-scratch on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:56PM (#27908803)
> 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.

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Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown by beaconstudios on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:59PM (#27908860)
Yeah I'm specifically talking about the commercialised form.
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Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown by dingleberry41 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:23PM (#27901667)
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?
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Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown by beaconstudios on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @06:52AM (#27904598)
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.
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Re:My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown by astrange on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:11AM (#27904741)
Japan does sell churches as nothing more than a backdrop to get married in.
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