The commodification of mindfulness is an entirely controlled operation. Why not mantra meditation?
Or kundalini?
Or transcendental?
Or discursive?

Because these all teach you to think critically, whereas - in the west - mindfulness meditation has been bastardised. https://twitter.com/Saradin1337/status/1275879930727936000

Mindfulness meditation has been made synonymous with the idea that one simply sits and lets everything be, as opposed to its origins in the Zen tradition as an insightful practice. Employers love westernised mindfulness because it's a pacification device.

Much like the C of E, westernised mindfulness meditation once subsumed into the materialism of clinical psychology was stripped of all mention of spiritual development and employed as a device to suppress commonplace 'dissident' emotions one finds themselves having in modernity.

There's a reason - one of many - that they don't promote Kundalini, discursive meditation or prayer, and it's because these modes of contemplation teach the person to *think* and actively investigate, as opposed to pacify their natural inclination to question things.

To paraphrase Greer: 'The reason I don't teach mindfulness is because we already have enough people who *don't* think, we need people to actually start *thinking* again.'