The Corporate Mindfulness Scam (w/Prof. Ron Purser) [Video]

Does management teach “mindfulness” to create compliance with a broken system that continues to inflict moral injury on frontline workers? Going beyond McMindfulness to truly wake up to what’s here, now.

Ron Purser is a professor of management at San Francisco State University and a student of Buddhism since 1981. He’s a faculty member at Dharma College and an ordained Zen priest.

Ron Purser’s website with links to the books referenced:
https://ronpurser.com/

Dharma College
https://dharma-college.com/

Illuminate TSK app with exercises:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/illuminate-tsk/id6502960273

Time, Space and Knowledge: A New Vision of Reality (Tarthang Tulku) (search Amazon)

The Mindful Cranks podcast:
http://www.mindfulcranks.com/

McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (search Amazon)

The Life Coaches (Current Affairs article)
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/07/how-the-life-coaching-industry-sells-pseudo-solutions-to-our-deepest-problems

Topics and Timecodes:

0:00 Intro
1:31 What is McMindfulness
9:36 Mindfulness without addressing structural issues, moral injury
17:34 History of “managing” unhappy workers, blaming the victim
25:17 The fallacy of “self” improvement
28:03 McMindfulness and spiritual crisis, vipassana
32:04 Should westerners meditate AT ALL?
36:40 Can westerners awaken within our own culture? How?
52:50 Beyond McMindfulness
56:09 Time, Space, Knowledge: direct pointers to NOW
1:06:17 Lack and the black hole at the center of us
1:13:29 Living through labels vs. direct experience, mind and time
1:25:10 How can someone apply this to THEIR day to day struggle? Trusting YOUR experience
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