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He was on Trump's good side then...

There, I deleted the sentence where I said you're regurgitating worn out jokes. Care to respond to any of the actual thoughts I laid out? Or are you still too concerned I've been tainted by Big Buddhism

I work in homeless services now and help meet people's very basic needs and try to get them housed. I don't need you to lecture me about people's actual experiences, I've seen the worst.

Recognizing that anyone can learn to exert more control over their own internal experience does nothing to delegitimize anyone's life experience. Not only that, I believe it empowers people.

What's funny is in my anecdotal experience, the group most resistant to the concept of mindfulness are people of privilege

I'm struggling to understand your point. You're 1) accusing me of perpetuating "the medical model," and 2) disagreeing with me that mindfulness meditation (literally a free thing you can do alone in your room) can help people take more control of their internal state? The implication here is you think more people should just be on antidepressant meds for the rest of their lives, I guess?

If your takeaway from everything I've said about mindfulness meditation helping people take some control of their thoughts and feelings is that I'm telling people to "just be less sad," you just aren't listening.

"We gave the steel companies a break when they needed it. Know what they gave themselves? Raises. The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules. They close one more factory, we should take a sledgehammer to one of their fancy fuckin foreign cars."

You're really good at cop outs

This isn't in the US, looks like somewhere in the Caribbean based on the brands. Definitely not US dollars

That is definitely not Costco

I've always really liked Jon Kabat-Zinn. His secular view of mindfulness is very palatable for folks who aren't as much into the "woo woo" aspects of spirituality. His book Wherever You Go There You Are is a great introduction.

I'd add that part of my personal journey has been from someone who was radically anti-woo woo to someone who without judgment accepts that there are others who choose to practice different types of spirituality from me (as long as they aren't hurting others with their beliefs or practices, I'll mindfully tell those people to get fucked)

Thank you for providing evidence to support my point

I work in mental health and have found that in general, people hate this concept. People can have difficulty tolerating the idea that they have any control over their internal experience, because the implication is that they are at least partially responsible for their negative thoughts and emotions. A lot of people will cling like crazy to blaming external factors for their condition in order to protect their ego (though not a conscious process).

The reality is the only person who has control over your internal experience is you, and research shows time and again that people's level of contentment is only partially correlated to factors like income and quality of life, because everyone gets to decide for themselves how to think and feel if they decide to.

I doubt this pilot program secures renewal at the City Council vote scheduled for Thursday