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There we go. The authors biased and naive opinion of mindfulness is just that. His opinion. Without any awareness of itself. What happens when we have nothing
by Mo3 7y ago
There we go. The authors biased and naive opinion of mindfulness is just that. His opinion. Without any awareness of itself.
What happens when we have nothing to think about but thoughts? We lose ourselves in the content of thought without seeing them for what they really are.
Human says "my thoughts", yet believes himself to be the content of the thoughts, the seemingly very important thoughts that start with "I" and everything that comes after it.
Where are the thoughts appearing in? That's you.
And staying in this perspective on purpose is mindfulness.
And being mindful sets a lot of things straight.
Radical change starts within and everything outside follows after it. And you don't need to do anything for it. In fact, sometimes you need not to.
- bArray 7y ago> There we go. The authors biased and naive opinion of > mindfulness is just that. His opinion. Except, it's not labeled as opinion. At this point I just consider the entirely of The Guardian an an opinion piece.
- pjc50 7y agoThis is the "lifeandstyle" section, as per the URL.
- bArray 7y ago"Life and style" can still be factual reporting (i.e. interviews, presenting multiple opinions, etc). This is very clearly an opinion piece and should be labelled as such, the author is injecting themselves into their writing.
- marcus_holmes 7y agoThere is an "adapted from his book (McMindfulness)" attribution at the bottom. I think the problem is that the author thinks his opinions are facts,though.
- AstralStorm 7y agoThere are a scarce few facts in there, about origins of the commercial training practice and size of the market, as well as a few companies that benefit from it. That's about it. Opinion pieces, no matter how biased and disagreeable, are still necessary. Facts do not make one think on their own. I would like more facts in them.
- bArray 7y ago> Opinion pieces, no matter how biased and disagreeable, are > still necessary. I don't disagree, I just believe they should be very clearly labelled as such.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoLong Reads are almost always guest authors with a book extract or essay, and it notes at the bottom the associated book.
- _nosaj 7y agoIf The Gardian stops telling people what they want to hear today, they'll have fewer paid members tomorrow. There's more demand for spin based journalism (or activist journalism) than reporting nowadays. I suppose The Guardian - like others - are following the market trend.
- shrimpx 7y ago> And being mindful sets a lot of things straight. Like what?