I think #meditation is different to #mindfulness. In both cases, they have been used in India & parts of asia for 000s of years. It's resulted in caste systems with only a small % of people not in poverty. Resulting from presuppositions & intentions. These shape what you get. In those #philosophy & #religions that start w- assumptions that the sensory world is enemy use these tools as magic, coping with solitude & self defence. Insights block by ruminations.
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@wildmandrake @philosophy Meditation (Vipassana and Samantha) developed in Buddhism, which contested the caste system from the beginning. In the 20th century, the Indian activist Ambedkar tried to convert the untouchables to Buddhism in order to free them from the caste system.
