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Now that Buddhists like you are coming in here and telling us to be more Buddhist and read and think Buddhist things, I think it's important to stress that anyo
by apatters 7y ago
Now that Buddhists like you are coming in here and telling us to be more Buddhist and read and think Buddhist things, I think it's important to stress that anyone interested in mindfulness doesn't need to become a Buddhist.
In fact there is a clinical application of mindfulness which is called cognitive behavioral therapy, it is proven through research to have great benefits for a lot of people, it is secular, and unlike Buddhism, it has never been a justification for murder and ethnic cleansing.
We should strip away the religion and focus on the scientifically studied and observed benefits, in my opinion.
- fsloth 7y agoI've done mindfulness and am ongoing CBT therapy and saying they are related is kind of wrong. Both: 1. Are a method that aim to reduce suffering 2. Focus on habits and 3. Observation of the current self But they are really not the same, or related on a practical level.
- rv-de 7y agoMindfulness is practiced in any religion. Though, most churches will for political reasons push back anything bringing in too much mysticism and spirituality. That's why the content of many religious books outside of institutional restrictions are more or less interchangeable.
- skinnymuch 7y agoCBT isn’t mindfulness. DBT is the one that incorporates mindfulness. CBT is specific analysis and can say it has mindfulness as part of it just as any introspection or analysis pertaining to your self does.
- edejong 7y agoIt was not my intent to convert anyone to Buddhism (in any of it’s hundreds of mostly peaceful substreams). I am merely pointing out that mindfulness requires a wider context.