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Mar 07, 2020, 03:43 PM
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Member Since: Nov 2015
Location: United States
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Originally Posted by AzulOscuro
You know, I was thinking about one of the point you brought out yesterday about many documents, books, articles, etc, offering a very limited vision of what mindfulness is.
In my opinion is not an easy concept and you know sometimes when a concept is borrowed by a culture from another, it loses part of its identity. So, here, it had to be created something more to kind of fill a gap: Mindfulness of compassion.
I think you will agree with me if I say that you have to do your own research on the topic and practise but if you have someone who already have a experience, like your professor, it’s much easier to achieve a better knowledge.
Tell us, please.
I think you are for now, the most authorised person to talk about this topic.
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If mindfulness is co-opted from Buddhism and made into a secular western practice without compassion it could end up being quite sterile and dead. I don't know if this makes any sense. Westerners did not "add" compassion to mindfulness and turn it into a western practice. I understand that people do not want mindfulness to be connected with a religion but the fact is that mindfulness has been recorded as a practice introduced by the Buddha himself and the Buddha primarily taught compassion.
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Last edited by DechanDawa; Mar 07, 2020 at 05:06 PM.
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