1. Mindfulness and its Discontents

A series of talks on “Mindfulness,” the great universal self-improvement practice. Ok, not quite. But mindfulness is awesome. Just not in the way the magazines want you to think.
We’ll start with the basics of Buddhist Mindfulness. What it is and may not be, how we can discern its presence or absence as an embodied state, why it’s so important, why it’s not as important as pop culture right now thinks it is, when it’s a bad idea…

This is on the heels of a few weeks talking about the Great Demons that manifest as the systemic oppressions, and I think of this as some of the foundational material for engaging with that. And the other way around.

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