Be Here, or There, Now

I started doing Transcendental Meditation on January 13, 1973, and quit the first time I read about TM moving into the boardrooms of America to make managers and bosses more productive, which I read as better able to exploit workers.

Here we go again, with the “mindfulness” trend becoming co-opted by the oligarchy. There’s money in them there mantras, y’all.

I am old enough to remember the book and the movement called “Be Here Now.” It was a sort of East-West blend of sati.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/the-muddied-meaning-of-mindfulness.html?WT.mc_id=2015-MAY-KWP-AUD_DEV-0501-0531&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=MAYAUDDEVFB&kwp_0=17285&kwp_4=114126&kwp_1=146954&_r=0