A must read for people exploring meditation

If you ever thought something feels off about the mindfulness movement, this book will enlighten you. Mindfulness is great but only a piece of something wider, we are social animals and the world is not something simple in our heads.

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Well well well

I would really recommend this to anyone who thinks that they are losing it, twisted or out of their mind.

Listening to this book you should be able to learn that you are not as worst as you thought.

People actually have better experience than you. LOL

I really like the opinions that the author is saying. It's very eye opening. On what mindfulness can and can't do.

What is it exactly, where does it come from etc

No it doesn't mean that it will change the world. But it will change you and how you see things, how you feel them etc

No you will not turn into a buddhist, a monk. You will be more happy.

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Anti-Capitalist Agitprop

Now this review is going to be harsh, primarily because the author deserves no less for his rampant use of equivocation (e.g., Kabat-Zinn = Ray Krock) and his utter blindness to his rabid ideological point of view.

The irony of a professor in a so-called business school writing an anti-capitalist screed is the height of irony in our current political and academic climate. Purser, the author, is a professor of management (presumably not of actual businesses) at San Francisco State University. He spends the entirety of this pile of crap blaming neo-liberalism and capitalism for the shallow adaptation of Buddhist mindfulness practices by modern Western civilization. Unfortunately, this dummy clearly has no deep or thoughtful background in any spiritual traditions beyond the Californication of Buddhist teachings by elite west coast social justice warriors. This book is a turd.

Now, there are definite problems with the shallowness of more recent adaptations of mindfulness and meditative practice derived from Buddhism in the "West", especially the English speaking part. Yes, some of the blame lies in a tendency to commodify and simplify practices for a broad audience to sell it. But scientism - the tendency of those faithful to a scientific explanation for everything, and thus very susceptible to nominalism - is a far larger part of the problem, because it pushes a scientistic form of thinking that attempts to reduce everything to its component parts, which can be very dangerous for things like meditative practices that are far greater than the sum of their parts. Moreover, the post-modern, woke, social justice kool-aid this dork has so clearly drunk deeply and profoundly of also contributes mightily to the debacle. It promotes an unbalanced and unfocused rage at "inequality" when material circumstances for the vast majority of people on the planet have never been better. The abandonment of traditional religious practices and the resultant loss of meaning in life for many, perhaps most, people in the secular West, is obscured by his woke religious ideology. The ultimate irony, however, is here we have Purser an ordained Zen Dharma teacher, blind to his own self-deception, willingly engaging in rhetorical tactics that utterly violate tenants of the Eight-Fold Path. This guy is no Buddhist. He's yet one more academic who gets to play Marxist critic from the comfort of his tax-payer supported ivory tower. Don't waste your time or money on him.

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