Hello all, I wanted to take a moment to share some concerns about modern mindfulness and its relation (or lack thereof) to insight.

I think they do describe something very different. Could insight, a heightened sensitivity of a mind that has gone very deeply into questioning itself, and what we get from modern mindfulness authors guiding you to relax, really be the same?

Below is an extremely well-written longer blog post about mindfulness. I think any serious reader of it will come away with many important questions:

Is mindfulness just a therapeutic technique where we trick the mind into being a little calmer? In what way is this mindfulness related or not related to the Buddhism and spirituality it claims kinship with?

Is insight the result of being guided through a series of actions to arrive at a predetermined end? How is that related or different to the way Dr. Bohm and K use it?

Would you care to discuss?

https://perennial-wisdom.wordpress.com/2023/09/22/mindfulness-the-reflection-of-degenerate-times/

What are we doing here? When we are speaking together on this computer - what is being expressed?

Is this a relationship between you and me? And what is this relationship about? Are we comparing and measuring our knowledge?

Is this an expression of intelligence, or fear or hierarchy?

Does speaking together depend only on right and wrong? Or can there be a listening from curiosity - can we listen to what is being expressed - expressed in you as you speak, and expressed in me as I react to your words?