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- Thu Sep 15, 2016 4:30 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
the Western Buddhist narrative of mindfulness has some holes in it when you look at the archive of therapeutic interventions of the time. can you open that up a little more? i'm not clear what you mean here. i knew about Langer's experiment with septuagenarians - the setting's that differed for two...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 4:06 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
the Western Buddhist narrative of mindfulness has some holes in it when you look at the archive of therapeutic interventions of the time. can you open that up a little more? i'm not clear what you mean here. i knew about Langer's experiment with septuagenarians - the setting's that differed for two...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 4:05 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
essentially, i have wondered whether this separation at the start made it easier for a range of other cultural forces to adopt the technique and re-purpose it. sure, but that assumes that corporate mindfulness is an adapted Buddhist technique. I'm not so confident it is, even though some of its adv...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 4:01 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
/quote] Yes, Japanese teachers of the Meiji period and after, when "Westernizing" was the imperative. It's a semi-colonial logic at work there. If the modernizing West represented the present, and traditional Asia was the past (in the present), then the needful thing was to bring Buddhist...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:57 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
Yes, I think that holds up. This is why mindfulness seems like it makes sense in the same category as a bunch of other completely unrelated practices, such as hatha yoga, martial arts, rolfing, and the rest as just another arrow in the quiver of generalized wellness. exactly! technique divorced fro...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:53 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
[ reason i ask is that the "m-as-x" movement is significantly different to orthodox dharma in one key respect: properly contextualised, orthodox dharma is triage, not improvement, while all versions of the "m-as-x" movement are effectively optimisation. that makes sense, if, at ...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:52 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
[ reason i ask is that the "m-as-x" movement is significantly different to orthodox dharma in one key respect: properly contextualised, orthodox dharma is triage, not improvement, while all versions of the "m-as-x" movement are effectively optimisation. that makes sense, if, at ...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:51 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
/quote] Yes, Japanese teachers of the Meiji period and after, when "Westernizing" was the imperative. It's a semi-colonial logic at work there. If the modernizing West represented the present, and traditional Asia was the past (in the present), then the needful thing was to bring Buddhist...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:48 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
....transmission, and also a tendency toward stripping away the "cultural trappings" of Zen practice to get to the REAL Buddhist practice, which is seated meditation. (of course this "stripping away" imperative is itself a cultural trapping, as is the emphasis on seated meditati...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:42 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
....transmission, and also a tendency toward stripping away the "cultural trappings" of Zen practice to get to the REAL Buddhist practice, which is seated meditation. (of course this "stripping away" imperative is itself a cultural trapping, as is the emphasis on seated meditati...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:39 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
....transmission, and also a tendency toward stripping away the "cultural trappings" of Zen practice to get to the REAL Buddhist practice, which is seated meditation. (of course this "stripping away" imperative is itself a cultural trapping, as is the emphasis on seated meditati...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:29 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: UNmoderated Sub-Forum
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6392
Re: UNmoderated Sub-Forum
AlexMcLeod wrote:I don't think even 4chan is unmoderated...
moderation was actually introduced after the flood of child porn caused it come under legal scrutiny. moderation now largely consists of deleting such.
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:18 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
I'm really interested in what it makes possible, though. Does it get people thinking about important issues that are not even directly Buddhist just by association, such as environmental and social justice? I think it can. One of the things that made the present mess possible, in my opinion, was th...
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 4:39 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
How sad: https://www.academia.edu/25482900/WHAT_IS_ENLIGHTENMENT_MINDFULNESS_IN_THE_MOMENT_OF_STRESS Title: WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? MINDFULNESS IN THE MOMENT OF STRESS :popcorn: Well, mindfulness is NOT enlightenment..., so many pages written on the wrong topic but..... a step in the right direction...
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 4:37 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Corporate "Mindfulness".
- Replies: 76
- Views: 29046
Re: Corporate "Mindfulness".
I didn say they were 'creating drones', that's a strawman if I ever heard one. What I was saying is that many large companies are employing mindfulness to (among other things) invrease productivity...that is simply true, not conspiracies, and IMO it is, or could be contrary to the purpose of mindfu...
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:55 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Phurba Practices?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 9762
Re: Phurba Practices?
You need to be empowered into that tradition, and receive the necessary instructions. The empowerment is inextricably bound with the practice. Ultimately, the physical purbha is merely an expedient.Tirisilex wrote:Umm can you tell me how I can practice using a Phurba?
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:15 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: The Dalai Lama with a cat
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2150
Re: The Dalai Lama with a cat
The Cicada wrote:I wonder how many lives it has.AlexMcLeod wrote:A very regal looking cat.
an infinite number, unless it practices.
- Thu Sep 08, 2016 8:13 pm
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Negative Karma
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8224
Re: Negative Karma
for me at least, it helps to make it clear that none of us are free from karma, and that samsara really is suffering, for everyone.Monlam Tharchin wrote: In what way does attributing these incidents to the victims' past negative karma benefit your practice?
I guess that's where I'm getting tripped up.
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- Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:53 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Questions about Tulkus and Unrecognized Tulkus
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3920
Re: Questions about Tulkus and Unrecognized Tulkus
Footsteps wrote:That's what I thought I was doing by creating this post...if you have a stake in it, contact someone and ask them....
i don't think anyone here can confer recognition on you.
- Tue Sep 06, 2016 8:19 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Questions about Tulkus and Unrecognized Tulkus
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3920
Re: Questions about Tulkus and Unrecognized Tulkus
You mention mastery. How can a child demonstrate mastery of these occurrences before they are fully developed and trained unless they are some sort of avatar? Many of the child talks remember past possessions, but do they truly demonstrate mastery of Annutrayoga when being assessed as children, or ...