Nailed it. This is my problem with overly scientific emphasis with meditation; you advertise one thing, then present a tool for something completely different.https://twitter.com/Failed_Buddhist/status/969578392055107584 …
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Meditation may in fact be the one case in which the switch is actually much more valuable than the bait. This does make me appreciate your point more, though.
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If there turns out to be flimsy evidence that meditation has a measurable impact on things like stress, depression, etc (which is entirely possible), then it'll be dead in the water.
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Once your initial ad pitch falls short, it's kinda hard to come back and say your product is actually a hundred times better than you had originally claimed.
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I feel that it's a degeneration, a debasement of the practice to do so. The actual lineages never do this, as far as I know. The warning labels come up front; the attitude is fundamentally esoteric anyway. I understand the utilitarian argument, but I think it is deeply flawed.
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Not only that, but it can have dangerous consequences. If you start making serious progress in meditation, there's a decent chance you'll run into periods of psychological chaos (especially if you are predisposed to psychiatric illness and/or using meditation to cope with one).
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Traditional Buddhist lineages are familiar with this territory. If "mindfulness" is only marketed as stress relief, nobody bothers to learn the deeper nuances. Can't tell you how many clinicians I've met who prescribe mindfulness without much knowledge of what it actually is.
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(Dr. Willoughby Britton at Brown University has done some interesting work on this.)
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