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Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha's most important gift to humanity.âŚ
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Did you know that todayâs âmindfulnessâ movementâwhich promises everything from greater corporate productivity to more passion in the bedroomâoriginated in nineteenth-century resistance to the British Empire?
After the conquest of Burma, meditationâpreviously something mostly the domain of wilderness hermitsâbecame a technique everyone could use to strengthen Buddhist Burmese society against cultural imperialism. Burmese teachers brought this practice to America, and Americans came to Burma to learn it directly.
It was fascinating to follow meditationâs journey in these pages from a tool of resistance against globalization to a technique brought around the world by globalization today. This book helped me appreciateâŚ
From Luke's list on making sense of religious history.
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