Debate and Discussion

In recent years a rich public conversation has developed regarding matters such as the ethics of MBSR and of secular meditation more generally, as well the relationship between Mindfulness Based Approaches and Buddhism. Rather than endorse one particular position on these topics, we have chosen to offer this list of diverse and often diverging essays and articles, so as to allow for each one of us to come to our own conclusions, or at the very least to live in awareness of the lines of inquiry and even controversy that accompany the increasing public interest in "Mindful Living".

A Holistic Mindfulness	Ajahn Amaro, Mindfulness, Springer	01/2015
It’s Not McMindfulness	Barry Boyce, Mindful Magazine	07/2015
Mindful Responds to New York Times’ “The Muddied Meaning of Mindfulness”	James Gimian, Mindul Magazine	04/2015
The Muddied Meaning of ‘Mindfulness’	Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times	04/2015
Don’t Believe the Hype	Catherine Kerr, Tricycle	10/2014
Facing Up to the Question of Ethics in Mindfulness-Based Interventions	Jake H. Davis, Mindfulness, Springer	12/2014
Meditation Nation	interview with Dr. Willoughby Britton, Tricycle	04/2014
Getting Over the Mindfulness Hype	Ed Halliwell, Mindful Magazine	11/2014
The Mindfulness Backlash	Anna North, The New York Times	06/2014
Secular mindfulness: potential & pitfalls	Jenny Wilks, Insight Journal BCBS	09/2014
TIME's Beautiful, White, Blonde 'Mindfulness Revolution'	Joanna Piacenza, The Huffington Post	01/2014
Can Success and Sex Sell Mindfulness?	Susan Piver, The Huffington Post	01/2014
The Revolution Will Not Be Blonde	Ethan Nichtern, Blog	01/2014
The Heart of Mindfulness: A Response to the New York Times	Funie Hsu, The Buddhist Peace Fellowship	10/2013
Mindfulness in Early Buddhism	Anālayo, Journal of Buddhist Studies	2013
The Problem with 8-Week Mindfulness Courses	Vishvapani, Wise Attention	10/2013
Secular Buddhism, New vision or yet another of the myths it claims to cure?	Akincano M. Weber, Insight Journal	08/2013
Beyond McMindfulness: A Thoughtful Reply	Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D., The Huffington Post	07/2013
The Morality of Meditation	David DeSteno in The New York Times	07/2013
Beyond McMindfulness	David Loy and Ron Purser, The Huffington Post	07/2013
The Buddha of Mindfulness, A Stress Destruction Program	Christopher Titmuss, Blog	07/2013
Getting Real About McMindfulness	Jeremy Hunter, Blog	07/2013
Enlightement Engineers	Noah Shachtman, Wired	06/2013
Can Mindfulness Change a Corporation?	David Loy, The Buddhist Peace Fellowship	02/2013
Mindfulness: Getting Its Share of Attention	David Hochma, The New York Times	01/2013
Secular Mindfulness & Buddhism (1) Mining Buddhism (2) A Wider View of Mindfulness	Vishvapani, Wise Attention	10/2012
Buddhism & the Mindfulness Movement: Friends or Foes?	Vishvapani, Wise Attention	04/2012
Responding to Suffering: Learning from Mindfulness Based Approaches	Vishvapani, Wise Attention	04/2012
Some Reflections On The Origins Of Mbsr, Skillful Means, And The Trouble With Maps	Jon Kabat-Zinn, CFM	2011

Debate and Discussion

Facing Up to the Question of Ethics in Mindfulness-Based Interventions