the trend laid out in this article seems like a good thing. Zen people talk about meditation being "useless" which is kind of true I think. It's not literally

the trend laid out in this article seems like a good thing. Zen people talk about meditation being "useless" which is kind of true I think. It's not literally a complete waste of time. But if you have any specific problem (in your life, mental health, or otherwise), you have to take specific actions well-suited to solve that problem, meditation actually just cannot accomplish specific goals like that. At most depending on the tradition, you can reliably put yourself into specific altered mental states. But these don't have much practical use either. So I think selling people meditation as a practical, reliable mental health treatment was just never a very good idea and I am glad consensus seems to be moving away from it.