What's wrong with mindfulness (and what isn't)
Subtitle: Zen perspectives
By: edited by Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum and Barry Magid
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781614292838
Subjects: Doctrines; Meditation; Buddhism; Zen Buddhism
Description: Offers a perspective on what mindfulness means, its strengths, and the potential pitfalls of decontextualizing mindfulness practice.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Universal mindfulness--be careful what you wish for?  -- Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum and Barry Magid; title: Mischief in the marketplace for mindfulness  -- Marc R. Poirier; title: "I" doesn't mind  -- Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum; title: The three shaky pillars of Western Buddhism : deracination, secularization, and instrumentalization  -- Barry Magid and Marc R. Poirier; title: Mindfulness myths : fantasies and facts  -- Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum; title: One body, whole life : mindfulness and zen  -- Hozan Alan Senauke; title: The buffet : adventures in the New Age  -- Sallie Jiko Tisdale; title: Two practices, one path  -- Gil Fronsdal and Max Erdstein; title: Solitude : on mindfulness in the arts  -- Norman Fischer; title: Plastic, zen, and mindfulness  -- Janet Jiryu Abels; title: Drowning in suffering : mindful feminism finds zen liberation  -- Grace Schireson; title: A bite of the universe  -- Sojun Mel Weitsman -- Epilogue:; title: Is mindfulness Buddhist? (and why it matters) -- Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum and Barry Magid.