Post by Cindy on Mar 1, 2016 13:53:20 GMT -5
STEALTH BUDDHISM: THE INVISIBLE TAKEOVER IN EDUCATION, CORPORATIONS, PSYCHOLOGY, & THE HEALTH FIELD THROUGH ADMITTED DECEPTION
As those following my posts know, I have warned about Mindfulness being a Buddhist practice - one which I once did -- many times. Please read this very important piece in the Huffington Post by Candy Gunther Brown:
Quote==Indeed, the Associated Press notes that the Portland, Oregon high-school mindfulness program it features, Peace in Schools, is the "brainchild" of European-American Caverly Morgan, who "trained at a Zen Buddhist monastery for eight years," and who, according to Morgan's personal website, remains committed to "Zen Awareness Practice" and "maintains her own spiritual practice while offering the gift of practice to others." Peace in Schools boasts being the "first for-credit mindfulness course in a U.S. public high school."==End quote from goo.gl/Xm0Juq
*Thanks to Lori Baker Galloway for this article
COMMENT
Please note how various school systems will use different names for Mindfulness; Oregon calls it Peace in Schools. So you can't just ask your school or county about Mindfulness - you must be specific. It can be called Quiet Time or Calm Moments or anything.
Quote==Trudy Goodman, founder of Insight LA, California, confesses in an interview with Vincent and Emily Horn of BuddhistGeeks.com that what she advertises as "secular" mindfulness for public schools is really, in her words, "stealth Buddhism." Although the "secular" classes use a "different vocabulary," getting children to engage in the same practice of mindfulness that is taught in Buddhist classes transforms students "whether they want it or not," and many go on to enroll in explicitly Buddhist classes. The podcast interview records Goodman and the Horns laughing while discussing this intentional deception.==End quote
COMMENT
The above speaks for itself - secular Mindfulness is admitted by some who push it to be "stealth Buddhism."
More deception:
Quote==She explains her tactic to a group of Buddhist insiders at the 2013 Heart-Mind conference at The Dalai Lama Center for Peace-Education: "We have to be able to bring contemplative practice into the classroom under a different name because obviously people that say 'oh meditation' they think oh this is 'Buddhist.'" So she instead uses the terms "Core Practice" and "brain breaks" as euphemisms for Buddhist meditation.
....When speaking to Buddhist coreligionists, Hawn says MindUP "all started" with "His Holiness" (who gave Hawn her own personal mantra) and with the Dalai Lama Center. But, in presenting her program to the public, Hawn drops all references to Buddhism or meditation and claims that she is simply teaching children how the brain works.==
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Note how a sound - usually a chime -- is used to start and end the session. Using a sound plays into the hypnotic effect as well as being a behavioral control to induce compliance with Mindfulness:
Quote==Cued by a resonant sound to begin and end practice, students are instructed to focus attention on their breath and cultivate "non-judgmental awareness" of passing thoughts and emotions. This Core Practice, the curriculum promises, habituates children to respond to experiences in a mindful way that develops moral and ethical virtues of "empathy, compassion, patience, and generosity." If the Core Practice of mindfulness is reducible to paying attention while breathing deeply, it is unclear how it makes one virtuous--except as a tenet of the eightfold path of Buddhist awakening.==
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As I've pointed out in my 4 articles on Mindfulness and many times here on FB, Mindfulness is designed to alter your view of your mind as being part of you, and to realize your self is not the real you, either:
Quote==As I explain in more detail in my previous post, meditating on one's breath and present-moment bodily sensations and cultivating non-judgmental awareness of passing thoughts and emotions trains the mind to perceive experiences and the notion of a "self" as transitory.==End quote
COMMENT
The article I quoted from above is no very long. Everyone should read it, as well as Brown's article on the specifics behind how Mindfulness got started and the agenda that goes with it (link to this is posted below).
I am feeling vindicated as I read this, because the Mindfulness pushers themselves are admitting they are changing and hiding language to sneak Mindfulness in as secular. The sad thing is is that everyone is buying it.
Mindfulness will soon become a dividing line in many ways: which side will you stand on?
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RESOURCES
Article by Brown on Mindfulness Meditation
goo.gl/pBbRwV
CANA article on Mindfulness (I have 4 in total)
bit.ly/1gRROhH
Article on lack of science on Mindfulness
tricy.cl/1uecdkq
Variety of feelings is good for mental and emotional health
bit.ly/1xVFuT3
Warning from Scientific American on how Mindfulness with children is behavior modification/conditioning and can lead to negative results:
goo.gl/lZyqL9
Huffington Post article on Buddhism hidden in Mindfulness
goo.gl/Xm0Juq
Articles on Meditation Dangers
goo.gl/ttpSXN
goo.gl/xTKqXJ
goo.gl/ZIO2Iu
goo.gl/mZ5MYi
goo.gl/6slhDu
goo.gl/E1eK63
As those following my posts know, I have warned about Mindfulness being a Buddhist practice - one which I once did -- many times. Please read this very important piece in the Huffington Post by Candy Gunther Brown:
Quote==Indeed, the Associated Press notes that the Portland, Oregon high-school mindfulness program it features, Peace in Schools, is the "brainchild" of European-American Caverly Morgan, who "trained at a Zen Buddhist monastery for eight years," and who, according to Morgan's personal website, remains committed to "Zen Awareness Practice" and "maintains her own spiritual practice while offering the gift of practice to others." Peace in Schools boasts being the "first for-credit mindfulness course in a U.S. public high school."==End quote from goo.gl/Xm0Juq
*Thanks to Lori Baker Galloway for this article
COMMENT
Please note how various school systems will use different names for Mindfulness; Oregon calls it Peace in Schools. So you can't just ask your school or county about Mindfulness - you must be specific. It can be called Quiet Time or Calm Moments or anything.
Quote==Trudy Goodman, founder of Insight LA, California, confesses in an interview with Vincent and Emily Horn of BuddhistGeeks.com that what she advertises as "secular" mindfulness for public schools is really, in her words, "stealth Buddhism." Although the "secular" classes use a "different vocabulary," getting children to engage in the same practice of mindfulness that is taught in Buddhist classes transforms students "whether they want it or not," and many go on to enroll in explicitly Buddhist classes. The podcast interview records Goodman and the Horns laughing while discussing this intentional deception.==End quote
COMMENT
The above speaks for itself - secular Mindfulness is admitted by some who push it to be "stealth Buddhism."
More deception:
Quote==She explains her tactic to a group of Buddhist insiders at the 2013 Heart-Mind conference at The Dalai Lama Center for Peace-Education: "We have to be able to bring contemplative practice into the classroom under a different name because obviously people that say 'oh meditation' they think oh this is 'Buddhist.'" So she instead uses the terms "Core Practice" and "brain breaks" as euphemisms for Buddhist meditation.
....When speaking to Buddhist coreligionists, Hawn says MindUP "all started" with "His Holiness" (who gave Hawn her own personal mantra) and with the Dalai Lama Center. But, in presenting her program to the public, Hawn drops all references to Buddhism or meditation and claims that she is simply teaching children how the brain works.==
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Note how a sound - usually a chime -- is used to start and end the session. Using a sound plays into the hypnotic effect as well as being a behavioral control to induce compliance with Mindfulness:
Quote==Cued by a resonant sound to begin and end practice, students are instructed to focus attention on their breath and cultivate "non-judgmental awareness" of passing thoughts and emotions. This Core Practice, the curriculum promises, habituates children to respond to experiences in a mindful way that develops moral and ethical virtues of "empathy, compassion, patience, and generosity." If the Core Practice of mindfulness is reducible to paying attention while breathing deeply, it is unclear how it makes one virtuous--except as a tenet of the eightfold path of Buddhist awakening.==
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As I've pointed out in my 4 articles on Mindfulness and many times here on FB, Mindfulness is designed to alter your view of your mind as being part of you, and to realize your self is not the real you, either:
Quote==As I explain in more detail in my previous post, meditating on one's breath and present-moment bodily sensations and cultivating non-judgmental awareness of passing thoughts and emotions trains the mind to perceive experiences and the notion of a "self" as transitory.==End quote
COMMENT
The article I quoted from above is no very long. Everyone should read it, as well as Brown's article on the specifics behind how Mindfulness got started and the agenda that goes with it (link to this is posted below).
I am feeling vindicated as I read this, because the Mindfulness pushers themselves are admitting they are changing and hiding language to sneak Mindfulness in as secular. The sad thing is is that everyone is buying it.
Mindfulness will soon become a dividing line in many ways: which side will you stand on?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RESOURCES
Article by Brown on Mindfulness Meditation
goo.gl/pBbRwV
CANA article on Mindfulness (I have 4 in total)
bit.ly/1gRROhH
Article on lack of science on Mindfulness
tricy.cl/1uecdkq
Variety of feelings is good for mental and emotional health
bit.ly/1xVFuT3
Warning from Scientific American on how Mindfulness with children is behavior modification/conditioning and can lead to negative results:
goo.gl/lZyqL9
Huffington Post article on Buddhism hidden in Mindfulness
goo.gl/Xm0Juq
Articles on Meditation Dangers
goo.gl/ttpSXN
goo.gl/xTKqXJ
goo.gl/ZIO2Iu
goo.gl/mZ5MYi
goo.gl/6slhDu
goo.gl/E1eK63
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