{"id":1453,"date":"2013-07-03T14:46:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2013-07-03T14:46:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:16:23","slug":"co-opting-the-dharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1453","title":{"rendered":"Co-opting the Dharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/ron-purser\" rel=\"author\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ron Purser<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and David Loy have a very succinct statement on the recent trend towards marketing mindfulness as a commercial tool. Unlike the reductio ad absurdum treatment provided in by the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">piece in Tricycle<\/span>, these two take what is happening very seriously. In doing so, they provide us with some insight as to what is wrong with extracting elements of Buddhist practice to provide benefits to the corporation.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"title-blog\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/ron-purser\/beyond-mcmindfulness_b_3519289.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Beyond McMindfulness<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"title-blog\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Purser and David Loy have a very succinct statement on the recent trend towards marketing mindfulness as a commercial tool. Unlike the reductio ad absurdum treatment provided in by the piece in Tricycle, these two take what is happening &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1453\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iqtu-nr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}