These statements gets awful close to implying that the purpose of mindfulness should be sociopolitocal action, which would fit with other things David Loy has written. I do not agree with that. To me, mindfulness is for spiritual practice and I do not want politics TcsWebmail
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I do appreciate McMindfulness critiques. But here's my problem:
"Mindfulness, they argued, needs to reclaim an ethical framework that goes beyond privatized adjustment to a society based on market capitalism that contributes to stress and other sources of unhappiness.... McMindfulness thus forfeits the moral demand that follows this insight: to challenge social inequities and enact universal compassion, service and social justice in all forms of human endeavor."
These statements gets awful close to implying that the purpose of mindfulness should be sociopolitocal action, which would fit with other things David Loy has written. I do not agree with that. To me, mindfulness is for spiritual practice and I do not want politics (especially someone else's politics, given that mine have never fit neatly into a left- right dichotomy) in my practice. That is my personal choice. And I think others should be able to make that choice as well. Who are they to dictate what the moral imperative of someone else's life is? They aren't living it.
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