Re: Dangers of Meditation
Posted by:
shamrock
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Date: March 04, 2022 05:38AM
Quote from the abstract:
"practicing any skill renders that skill self-central, and self-centrality breeds self-enhancement bias."
In other words, your yoga and meditation practice ends up being "all about me."
If you want to read the full text of this abstract, you can request a copy directly from the authors at [www.researchgate.net]
"practicing any skill renders that skill self-central, and self-centrality breeds self-enhancement bias."
In other words, your yoga and meditation practice ends up being "all about me."
If you want to read the full text of this abstract, you can request a copy directly from the authors at [www.researchgate.net]
Re: Dangers of Meditation
Posted by:
corboy
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Date: March 05, 2022 12:39AM
That is an excellent link!
Another citation put it this way:
(Quote)Traditionally, mind-body practices such as yoga and meditation are believed to have an “ego-quieting” effect, allowing practitioners to foster well-being by reducing their sense of self-importance across all areas of life.
A pair of studies published in Psychological Science, however, suggests that the physical and emotional benefits of these practices may not arise from modesty, but rather from enhancing practitioners’ pride in their own abilities – as yogis, at least . (Unquote)
[www.psychologicalscience.org]
Another citation put it this way:
(Quote)Traditionally, mind-body practices such as yoga and meditation are believed to have an “ego-quieting” effect, allowing practitioners to foster well-being by reducing their sense of self-importance across all areas of life.
A pair of studies published in Psychological Science, however, suggests that the physical and emotional benefits of these practices may not arise from modesty, but rather from enhancing practitioners’ pride in their own abilities – as yogis, at least . (Unquote)
[www.psychologicalscience.org]
Re: Dangers of Meditation
Posted by:
corboy
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Date: March 05, 2022 12:47AM
A lot more research needs to be done to examine the effects of mindfulness practice versus metta practice on empathy and willingness to share resources.
Lets now look at examining yoga.
We desperately need more research to identify what kind of self enhancement is generated by yoga practice as fitness exercises with no grounding in ethics and the same postural exercises taught in an ethical context.
Self enhancement as respect based on one's increased skill in practicing the postures?
What effect does this self respect have on one's likelihood of 'treating oneself' (spending found money on oneself vs sharing it with someone you have wronged or is having a bad day)
Self enhancement as self respect based on one's increased skill in practicing not only the postures but the ethics of the yogic lineage?
What effect does this self respect have on one's likelihood of 'treating oneself' (spending found money on oneself vs sharing it with someone you have wronged or is having a bad day)
Lets now look at examining yoga.
We desperately need more research to identify what kind of self enhancement is generated by yoga practice as fitness exercises with no grounding in ethics and the same postural exercises taught in an ethical context.
Self enhancement as respect based on one's increased skill in practicing the postures?
What effect does this self respect have on one's likelihood of 'treating oneself' (spending found money on oneself vs sharing it with someone you have wronged or is having a bad day)
Self enhancement as self respect based on one's increased skill in practicing not only the postures but the ethics of the yogic lineage?
What effect does this self respect have on one's likelihood of 'treating oneself' (spending found money on oneself vs sharing it with someone you have wronged or is having a bad day)
Re: Dangers of Meditation
Posted by:
corboy
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Date: March 05, 2022 12:50AM
Yoga classes brought added revenue to the gym I once belonged to. Those of us who took the Spinning classes and the Pilates classes bought our equipment at bike shops and dance clothing stores.
The people who packed into the yoga classes gladly bought yoga merchandise from the front desk.
Added revenue for the gym!
No cooincidence that the Spinning classes were moved from the largest space in the gym to a small ghastly sweatbox of a room upstairs.
Of course I have no hard feelings at all.
Not at all....
The people who packed into the yoga classes gladly bought yoga merchandise from the front desk.
Added revenue for the gym!
No cooincidence that the Spinning classes were moved from the largest space in the gym to a small ghastly sweatbox of a room upstairs.
Of course I have no hard feelings at all.
Not at all....
Dangers of Employer Endorsed Mindfulness Practice
Posted by:
corboy
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Date: April 22, 2022 03:35AM
Carolyn Chen on Work Pray Code
By Carolyn Chen March 16, 2022
[press.princeton.edu]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/22/2022 03:48AM by corboy.
By Carolyn Chen March 16, 2022
[press.princeton.edu]
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The problem with Techtopia is that work monopolizes the resources of a community—its time, energy, money, and devotion. As a result, people disinvest in other vital social institutions—families, faith communities, neighborhoods, and political institutions. Work becomes the alpha institution, around which all other institutions must submit and cater to in order to get a share of the community’s resources.
I observed that in Silicon Valley, schools, churches, and small businesses must service tech’s imperatives in order to survive. For instance, tech workers don’t have time to meditate at the temple because of work, so the temple brings meditation to work. But meditation teachers need to conform meditation to tech’s goals by removing Buddhist ethical teachings and reduce meditation to a productivity practice.
Techtopia works against collective human flourishing in two ways. First, it impoverishes our non-economic institutions and traditions that offer alternative, richer and fuller pathways to fulfilment than the “theocracy of work.”
Second, Techtopia creates an inequality of spirit. When a society’s social, material, and spiritual rewards are monopolized by work, those who don’t have the right skills, education, age, and race get locked out from living “productive,” “fulfilling,” and “meaningful” lives.
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Dangers of Employer Endorsed Mindfulness Practice
Posted by:
corboy
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Date: April 22, 2022 03:41AM
One reviewer of Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley wrote:
Quoted from review of Work Pray Code on Amazon Accessed 12:43 pm 4/21/2022
[www.amazon.com]
In an interview Carolyn Chen answered this question. In Silicon Valley, employees get their sense of wholeness and community from work, rather than outside work, friendships outside of work, faith communities and service outside of work. They work such long hours they dont have the time for outside activities so become dependant on work.
Professor Chen warns of the trap that awaits them:
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 04/22/2022 04:00AM by corboy.
Quoted from review of Work Pray Code on Amazon Accessed 12:43 pm 4/21/2022
[www.amazon.com]
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Faithful Reader
2.0 out of 5 stars And what happens when you leave the company?
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2022
I know Palo Alto and the Valley well and have since mid-70s.
The author did exhaustive research, for which kudos, but she missed the most important stuff. Specifically, the high turnover, a k a burn out, in the Valley employers, which is anticipated and planned. All she really describes is how the tech giants wring a little more time out of people before kicking them to the curb.
The people she mentions who are older than 40 are almost all no longer tech employees...
One Indian woman has a daughter, no mention of a father except by negative inference, that as an immigrant from India, she has nobody local to help raise her daughter. So her employer fills that role.
What happens to the girl when mom changes, or just loses, her job? Oops.
In an interview Carolyn Chen answered this question. In Silicon Valley, employees get their sense of wholeness and community from work, rather than outside work, friendships outside of work, faith communities and service outside of work. They work such long hours they dont have the time for outside activities so become dependant on work.
Professor Chen warns of the trap that awaits them:
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Companies aren’t families, they’re not faith communities.
As soon as you’re not able to perform anymore or you’re not as productive, you’re let go. So that unconditional love or belonging is kind of this fiction.
And when companies use words like “devotion, love, purpose, and authenticity”—words that really belong in spaces like your community, friend group, or neighborhood where love might be unconditional— employees’ love and devotion to work becomes unconditional.
When I interviewed people who kind of had a crisis of faith where they discovered their company lied to them or wasn’t as ethical as they thought, it really broke people because they had this faith.
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Bottom Line Buddhism
Posted by:
corboy
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Date: April 22, 2022 03:53AM
New Book Work, Pray, Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley Investigates the Cult of Productivity
“What happens when work is the place where Americans find their souls?”
Interview with Carolyn Chen by Alison SpiegelApr 12, 2022
[tricycle.org]
Professor Carolyn Chen states that companies have now taken on many features of religious organizations:
“What happens when work is the place where Americans find their souls?”
Interview with Carolyn Chen by Alison SpiegelApr 12, 2022
[tricycle.org]
Professor Carolyn Chen states that companies have now taken on many features of religious organizations:
Quote
CC: First it was yoga, now it’s meditation, and I’m actually doubtful that’s going to last. I think that there’s going to be a new fad. But the religion is actually the religion of work, and predates all of this. It doesn’t actually matter if a company is offering meditation and mindfulness. Every Fortune 500 company now has the basic elements of a religious organization. They have a mission, an origin myth, practices, ethics, and many of them even have charismatic leaders—elements of having a sense of meaning and purpose.
Re: Dangers of Employer Endorsed Mindfulness Practice
Posted by:
Cult_victim_123
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Date: May 20, 2022 05:59AM
reading through this whole thread and was hit so hard by this. Thank you for sharing.
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