He is awesome

ET prefers to refer to as presence ❤

Nonce

😂😂 That's so true brother!!

republicans and democrats are both wrong , it is good that they become impartial . See the dvd film with actor Robin Williams in it : "Man of the year" , he plays the usa president who is nor republican nor democrat . Very inspiring film ... Enjoy .

Can you not see below the surface. It’s about root causes. Not the symptoms

Can you not see below the surface. It’s about root causes. Not the symptoms

It’s a wonderful lecture. Because it’s not pro or against anything. He just tells it like it is.

Do you. The Dharma is a Pacifist doctrine.

maybe the leftist political opinions are one of the benefits from mindfulness.

Anthony Mayfield I honestly think it's an outgrowth of mindfulness, but not left or right. If some insights have associations with a certain American political party or philosophy is not particularly important.

Well mindfulness raises your agreeableness which is correlated with left-leaning politics but also your conscientiousness which is correlated with right-leaning politics so it's hard to say. I think it's more selection bias, but either way mindfulness should be completely secular and apolitical, it doesn't help advance the cause of mindfulness to take snipes at the president thereby turning off roughly ~50% of the US population.

Anthony -- there's really no basis for saying that agreeableness or conscientiousness is correlated with either political affiliation. I do agree about insulting people, but I see none of that here. If one speaks the truth, and that truth happens to offend people because they don't like it or falsely reject it, then the issue lies not with the speaker. I've been a very hard critic of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and I try to base these criticisms on facts and data and uncontroversial evidence. But what I've seen is that the truth or falsity of the criticism takes a back seat to the tribalistic tendency to reject it as a threat, and dismiss the messenger as essentially an "outsider" who's biased. This is done on both sides. If criticizing Obama, you're not truly liberal, perhaps racist, perhaps brainwashed, or probably a Republican. If criticizing Trump, you're a leftist, anti-American, politically correct, etc. It's quite true that this back and forth is about even in the United States (with a slight advantage for Democrats in terms of numbers), but if all that means is rejecting anything that's considered criticism of the person or party one identifies with, we're in big trouble.

Well imagine if I did a talk on mindfulness and kept sniping at Obama, it would be roundly criticized, but because it's Trump it's socially acceptable, just a suggestion! Mindfulness shouldn't become like the Valley = totally elitist and looking down at middle America. And also, there actually is a basis, go read the medical literature and you will find it found in the literature.

Totally wrong. It has not become Mc Mindfulness. It has become the gold standard of secular mindfulness.