> In a 2019 Vice article, Davidson suggested that those who have meditation-related difficulties simply aren’t meditating correctly. > “I think that many of th

> In a 2019 Vice article, Davidson suggested that those who have meditation-related difficulties simply aren’t meditating correctly. > “I think that many of the people who are having difficulty and who are reporting that their problems are exacerbated by meditation are not meditating correctly, to put it simply and coarsely," he said, "Some might even say that they're not meditating. That they think they're meditating, but they're not really meditating.2” > His notion, contradicted by historical and contemporary accounts, is a fusion of victim-blaming and fundamental attribution error. Unable to entertain the possibility of deficiencies in the mechanism, he blames the meditator.