Mindfulness goes mainstream

Bunks

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2163560,00.html

BhikkhuJayasara

well I don't know if people TRULY practicing mindfulness has gone mainstream... but talking about it sure has.

anataman

Hey if you want to prophet from it you've got to be one step ahead.

LOL

karasti

Similar to meditation, most will get bored when they don't see immediate results. They expect something to make them happy and when it doesn't work, they give it up for the next new thing on Time's cover. Can't build upwards with no foundation.

jll

ajahn brahm on mindfulness,

Bunks said:

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2163560,00.html

Bunks

karasti said:

Similar to meditation, most will get bored when they don't see immediate results. They expect something to make them happy and when it doesn't work, they give it up for the next new thing on Time's cover. Can't build upwards with no foundation.

I hear ya. When the RWC was on in Oz in 2003, everyone in melbourne played rugby for about ten minutes then got over it...

wangchuey

Very unlikely that mindfulness could ever reach the mainstream. Only the older generation seem to care more about meditation and mindfulness. Good luck trying to reach the younger generation.

how

I have a friend who is the co owner/manager of a large business employing many. She offered a space for her employees to join her, before and after work and during breaks, in sitting meditation.
When she asked me what I thought of her plan, I pointed out how employees quite probably currying her favor by participating with her, would be handicapped by their mercenary intent. It is one thing to see meditation as a way to address your suffering in life, it is another, to see it as a way of placing yourself in a more favorable business position.
So I suggested arranging the space to allow the employees to have a place to practice on their own and anonymously so that they could practice free of the possible intent to curry favor with their boss.
Interesting times.

Woah93

Oh noes it's going mainstream? My hipster ego is struggling right now... I'm no longer unique!

Why did the hipster burn his tongue?
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He drank his coffee before it was cool.

karasti

I'm not terribly older, I'm 38 but have been interested in Buddhism since my 20s. I just didn't have the ability to get answers to my questions so I lost my interest. But I do have children who get it to varying degrees. My 17 year old and my 5 year old listen quite well when we discuss mindfulness and presentness. My middle child has a harder time, he's very wrapped up in a materialistic grasping world, but we work on it. I wouldn't give up hope, kids are more aware than I was at their age.

DairyLama

If mindfullness become really fashionable I will have to stop doing it....:p

Kundo

Bunks said:

karasti said:

Similar to meditation, most will get bored when they don't see immediate results. They expect something to make them happy and when it doesn't work, they give it up for the next new thing on Time's cover. Can't build upwards with no foundation.

I hear ya. When the RWC was on in Oz in 2003, everyone in melbourne played rugby for about ten minutes then got over it...

Because Rugby sucks :P

Namaste,
Raven