Therapy

I haven't written in a while again. There's been a period of quite a lot of work. I volunteered to take some extra responsibilities at work for a limited time (until the end of February), and it's been taking up too much head space for any serious reflection to take place.

What I have been thinking about is, amongst other things, meditation (and Buddhist practice in general) in relation to science and therapy.

I think it's great if people get interested in meditation from a scientific point of view, or because they see it as some kind of therapy (they meditate to become calmer, more focussed, etc.), but it troubles me when meditation is pitched in this way to people by some Buddhist practitioners.

(a week or so passes here)

Now, after some further thinking I believe that the issue is not that there are Buddhists that try to pitch meditation as therapy, but rather that I feel uncomfortable with it. It can not be bad to have more people practising meditation, and if they are engaging regularly with their practice there will definitely be results beyond the narrow scope of their therapeutic needs. I will need to further ponder this.


Time to sleep a bit.
Good night.