Does administration train “mindfulness” to create compliance with a damaged system that continues to inflict ethical harm on frontline employees?
Ron Purser is a professor of administration at San Francisco State University and a pupil of Buddhism since 1981. He’s an ordained Zen priest and a college member at Dharma College (try their Illuminate TSK app with workouts).
Learn extra about Ron on his website, try his e-book McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, his podcast The Mindful Cranks and his Current Affairs article How the Life Coaching Industry Sells Pseudo-Solutions to Our Deepest Problems. And right here’s the e-book we talked about Time, Space and Knowledge: A New Vision of Reality by Tarthang Tulku.
Topics and Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:31 What is McMindfulness
9:36 Mindfulness with out addressing structural points, ethical harm
17:34 History of “managing” sad employees, blaming the sufferer
25:17 The fallacy of “self” enchancment
28:03 McMindfulness and non secular disaster, vipassana
32:04 Should westerners meditate AT ALL?
36:40 Can westerners awaken inside our personal tradition? How?
52:50 Beyond McMindfulness
56:09 Time, Space, Knowledge: direct tips that could NOW
1:06:17 Lack and the black gap on the middle of us
1:13:29 Living by means of labels vs. direct expertise, thoughts and time
1:25:10 How can somebody apply this to THEIR everyday wrestle? Trusting YOUR expertise
