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the West has its own spiritual traditions, that the type of people who meditation is pitched towards have completely abandoned. Mindfulness and such are spiritu
by beaconstudios 5y ago
the West has its own spiritual traditions, that the type of people who meditation is pitched towards have completely abandoned. Mindfulness and such are spiritual practices stripped of their philosophical roots and repackaged in a consumable form.
If SE Asian companies were selling the Lord's Prayer as a quick de-stressing technique for busy atheist office workers, I'd say they were missing the point too.
- dingleberry41 5y agoWould that make the Lord's Prayer twice repackaged (or re-gifted if you will) since it's a middle eastern practice already packaged as a consumable for the West?
- beaconstudios 5y agoNo it wouldn't. There's a difference between a religion spreading, and taking the bits you like and secularising them like it's some kind of feel good buffet.
- astrange 5y agoJapan does sell churches as nothing more than a backdrop to get married in.
- denton-scratch 5y ago> Mindfulness and such are spiritual practices stripped of their philosophical roots Mindfulness is only stripped of it's "philosophical" (read: spiritual) roots, if you strip them. Perhaps you are confusing commercialised "mindfulness" with mindfulness.
- beaconstudios 5y agoYeah I'm specifically talking about the commercialised form.