After listening to Thich Nhat Hanh answer questions in a 3 hour long Google Talk, I realized mindfulness's goal of removing pain also aimed to remove all the li

After listening to Thich Nhat Hanh answer questions in a 3 hour long Google Talk, I realized mindfulness's goal of removing pain also aimed to remove all the little dramas of the human experience. Some people think of mindfulness as a kind of cure to unhappiness, when it's really just a drug, or tool, wrapped up in "Wisdom of the East" woo packaging. Don't just "do mindfulness", because it's not a cure-all.