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Mindfulness is Not Positivity.
Let's just put it this way: The Secret was definitely not written by a Buddhist.
Here in the spiritually capricious Bay Area, I hear this sort of empty self-help jargon all the time:
"Manifest what you want with good intentions!"
"Cultivate an attitude of abundance!"
"Think positive and things will turn out great!"
And one of my personal favorites: "It will all be alright in the end. If it's not alright; it's not the end!" As one of my recent dharma teachers pointed out, in reality it's not all going to be alright in the end, because in the end, without exception, we're all going to get sick or old, and die.
Which is actually fine, in its own way. But you get the point.
This sort of platitude word-vomit is a means to placate ourselves into believing that life is really not all that hard if we don't want it to be. Suffering? What suffering? In Buddhism, we call this sort of mindset delusion.
Which is why I find it fascinating that the platitude spewers are often the same ones showing up at sanghas and listing "Buddhist" as their religion on Facebook. This confuses me! Buddhist teachings—at least the ones I've come across in my admittedly limited experience—do not instruct one to "think positive." In fact, quite the opposite. In Buddhism, we are taught to look at our thoughts, feelings, and emotional experiences without judgment, and without trying to change them. Buddhism is not about acquiring abundance, riches, happiness, or any goals at all. Buddhism is not future-thinking in that way, and it's definitely not about The Law of Attraction.
This is why Buddhism resonates with me as a philosophy and as a lifestyle. In Buddhist thought, I'm okay just as I am. It's all about self-acceptance, even if that sometimes looks a wee bit ugly. Life is struggle, after all, and we're messy creatures inclined to negative emotions at times.
That doesn't mean that I'm averse to working on myself.
Quite the opposite. Self-growth is of vital importance to me and I practice it a little bit every day. On the other hand, sometimes I just get in a bad mood, and might, for instance, feel like stabbing someone through the eyeball, so to speak.
The appropriate Buddhist reaction to this would be: "Note to self, I want to stab someone through the eyeball today"… without judging myself for the urge. (Although, to be fair, stabbing someone through the eyeball is not Right Action, and thinking about it is not even Right Intention.)
When I say to someone, "You know, today I just really feel like stabbing so-and-so through the eyeball," and they say to me, "I have just the solution. You need to cultivate a better attitude of positivity and abundance!!!!!" do you know what that does not do?
That's right, it doesn't help.
Personally, I'm more inclined to side with conscious realists like Barbara Ehrenreich, who recently wrote a whole awesome book about the negative side of positive thinking: Bright-Sided. If you're not the book reading type, then perhaps you'll take the time instead to visit this brief excerpt on NPR.
I totally honor and respect that for some people, turning that frown upside down is a really great way to deal with being upset. And for others, a practice of gratitude and abundance-thinking does indeed do the trick. And if you're into The Secret, have tons of fun with that, and I'll try to keep it zipped.
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49 Responses to "Mindfulness is Not Positivity."
Hi Joslyn
I came upon you and this article by chance – not the universe bringing us together or synergy or any other rubbish, just chance while searching mindfulness on google. Just want to say what a lovely refreshing article about which I agree 100%. Keep up the good work.
Cheers from (the original town of your surname) Hamilton, Scotland
Martin Stepek
LOVE this article! Thank you so much.
Exactly. Thank you for putting that so well.
Interesting article, although I do not believe I have ever heard anyone compare mindfulness and positivity. They are two entirely different creatures. I do believe they can co-exist, I practice mindfulness and I am a positive person. However I would never confuse the two.
People should act the way they are, not the way other people think they should, your true self will show through now matter how heavy a cloak you wear.
Hallelujah! Praise the divine giver of good stuff and positive thoughts! I am a yoga teacher and some weeks I just can't stand all of the word-vomitous platitudes. I just want to scream in the middle of class, you are all going to die so suck up and deal! The yoga community is especially rife with these regurgitated chunks of loving goodness.
Much of the abundance-speak and loving-kindess-bile, comes from what Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (Shambhala Buddhist lineage) calls spiritual materialism. In order to feel like they are spiritual, people often try to act like they are spiritual, which includes wearing yoga clothes, chanting, speaking in certain ways. This, unfortunately, only leads to building up the ego, making people think they are spiritually evolved when in fact they are fragile eggs waiting to be Humpty-Dumptied by the next major life crisis.
In addition to the ego getting in the way, the concepts of "abundance" and gratitude have been corrupted by American culture, which tends to turn everything into an object for making yourself feel better (e.g. drugs, alcohol, video games, sex, spirituality, charity, cars, houses). You can, however, express gratitude even when things are horribly wrong in your life–"sure I just lost my job, but I still have my health", "okay, I don't have my health, but I can still meditate." Likewise, abundance is not about having "stuff"; it is meant to encourage people to see that life already has an abundance of joy, compassion, love, challenges, etc. that open the mind and heart. So why does it matter that you can't buy a bigger house, throw down that contorted handstand like the super-bendy model on the magazine cover, or got the wrong coffee at Starbucks?
As I have learned in yoga and in life, challenges, discomforts and suffering are opportunities for growth. If everything were perfect and we were abundantly overflowing with our greatest desires, we would be fat, lazy spiritually empty people (okay, more than we already are). I think Thich Nhat Hahn summarized it perfectly when he talked about suffering being needed to create peace and happiness. "Without suffering, you have no ways in order to learn how to be understanding and compassionate."
Freaking AMEN.
You rock.
I've found that practicing mindfulness and meditation (vipassana) has increased my experience of positivity and happiness in life, not in a naive and empty way, but in a "life can be tough, and bad stuff sometimes happens, so whattya going to do about it?" way. After all, Buddha noted that life was suffering, but he also pointed out that he had a path to ending suffering.
Reality is reality, and sometimes bad shit goes down. Overreacting to said "bad shit" merely makes your experience of life worse. I'm interested in learning as many technologies and methods as possible – of which mindfulness definitely is one – so as to be in a state of happiness and peace as often as possible *regardless* of the circumstances of my life. Not in a naive, avoidant, Pollyanna way, but instead in an aware, conscious, and, dare I say it, mindful, way. Making my happiness unconditional is the goal here. If this approach makes me a New Age positivity junkie, then so be it…
That was wonderful. Finally, life the way it really is.
wow…OK then next time I'm down I'll just think who cares we are all going to die anyway. — NOT… been there done that.
I'm really sorry that I like to look on the bright side…I get where you are all coming from I really do…but JESUS is 'attacking' thinking positive really the answer it just all sounds so dismal and bitter and well suffering.
I think positive everyday…and I will continue to do so….see my post on just that thought http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/08/mirror-mir…
Yoga Teachers are supposed to say feel good things…it's what class is for to lead you into a peaceful place…it's a freakin' hour or an hour and a half out most we are really sorry we can't give you a deeper philosophical answer in that time…keep coming back and maybe it will all add up.
I'll keep telling my students to "be happy now" "to accept themselves as they are" I will continue to spew my vomitious niceities because the world is an ugly place sometimes and in that space there is a haven…and people need that haven. I will continue to live as "yogic" as possible and that means not judging people that aren't living that…
Let them chant and inflate their egos and when their time is right they will come to their answers…
Good Grief can't we just be happy for a moment? And sorry but dying is not an end nor is it a "bad" thing…so even if everyone is going to DIE that's just another step. So while I'm hear doing THIS I'd like to enjoy it.
POOH POOH on your angy anti happy thoughts I can be mindful and positive. I do it all the time.
I read the book synopsis – I think people have taken "positive thought" and twisted it a bit..It really is about "you may not get what you want, but you get what you need"
I don't think she is condemning positivity. I think that when we don't honor our negative emotions, so to speak, or others don't, it causes us to feel that we are "bad", psychologically, instead of acknowledging them as okay, honoring them, and allowing them to pass through us. It can come across in a very condescending way when someone is babbling, "be positive", and discounting what you are dealing with.
Yoga Teachers are supposed to say feel good things…it's what class is for to lead you into a peaceful place——-What!!! Really?
Be careful with the word "good" and "Supposed" to. Sometimes as teachers trying to be bright, we start to develop and pass on compulsory positivity. Being honest in your teachings may be bringing up the truth of your reality that day, or even your life. Many people have dealt with trauma and hardship. By masking over that experience with brightness we never get to know the dark. Last year I came out to my students with the fact that I was severely depressed (partly because of the facade this community can press upon us with ("Rainbows and Flowers"). It was through sharing the darkness that I was dealing with, that i connected to the students on a much deeper, and profoundly peaceful level. We are not here to bring a "fix" or fast food satisfaction to the masses. If we miss out on the spectrum of experience by ignore the facts of life, we may walk by the deepest part of our practice without ever knowing.
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And here is where the spiritual materialism lives for me.
In my loosely based tantric non-dualist understanding I don't see "pleasure" or "enjoyment" or even "material wealth" as anti-thetical to spirituality. In my estimation this thing called LIFE isn't always about getting out of it…it's not a bad thing to be avoided or rid of…I see it has this wonderful game/playground. And it's OK for people to drive a nice car and have a nice house and own things…it's OK for them to even o ver indulge in the pleasurs of life when that is the point of their experience at that time.
"The goodness of your heart is such that it wants your mind to have beautiful thoughts."
– Gurumayi
The strangeness of that sentence is that Gurumayi seems to think that the heart and the mind are two different things.
Buddhism does include affirmative teachings about positive thinking. Metta-bhavana practice comes to mind. And dedicating merits. The opening verses of the Dhammapada are another well-known example. Another is the notion of Samma Sankappa, translated as Right Intention or Right Thought, as one of the eight parts of the Noble Eightfold Path.
The kamma of cultivating positive thoughts here and now can be a powerful impetus toward awakening. And this truth is in no way weakened by the wisdom practice of recognizing the underlying nature of these thoughts as impermanent and not-self phenomena. An effective Dhamma practice includes the skillful use of positive thinking, at those times when thinking occurs.
Thoughts are like actions. They are expressions of kamma. If you keep on engaging in harmful actions, and if you call yourself a "Buddhist," you probably would try to change your actions so that they would become more compassionate. Likewise with thoughts. It is possible to train the mind. With best wishes.
And then there's this: http://journeytograce.com/main/unexpected-money/
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The fundamental problem with positive thinking is that many people use positive thinking to maintain a state of denial about certain problems and challenges which it is NOT OK to be in denial about. The problems and challenges of living on this planet need our best effort, care and creativity… not our positivity!!!
terrific picture next to your bio Joslyn
We are of one mind. Wait a minute, is that Buddhist?
What I needed today! Thanks!
It is spelled "all right": two words. Please respect grammar if you're going to publish a newsletter. Thank you.
Thank you! So tired of this condescending baloney … yes, I believe in trying to do your best, but it is very hurtful and dishonoring of others experiences and emotions to not value their negative aspects of life so to speak. You can't positive away your bills or you end up in Delusion-ville.
Wow! Thanks for sharing that story. That is great. I agree there is a lot more to this discussion than my brief and flippant missive above. Many books could probably be written about it.
Great response and message, Greg. Great to have you back.
Ha Ha. Correlation is not causation. Failing to grasp this is #1 of the 12 impossible beliefs before breakfast.


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First jump off Brento, I'm terrified all over again. New exit point. Further to fly to the landing. Different wind conditions. I walk down to the exit point after gearing up. I grab one of the ropes set up for safety. And manage to slip on the polished rock. I hold onto the rope, but drop my helmet and goggles. Slow motion, they bounce twice and disappear off the side of the cliff. Bad sign?! Who knows. Just a little fear icing on my fear cake.
I start frantically rambling about how I can't possibly fly without goggles. I'm not blessed with 20/20 vision. If I were to lose a contact lens from wind on my flight, I'd surely smash in on landing. Mat is ever so kind to pass on his helmet and sunglasses to me. No excuses now! I push off the exit point, which was clearly made by the gods for the sole purpose of BASE jumping. Solid, flat, overhung. I'm flying! And this time the cliff is 4,000ft tall. So much time to fly! I'm actually able to have a conversation with myself in my head. It goes something like this... 'Oh my god! Holy shit! I'm flying! I'm really moving! This is SIICCKKKK!!! Ok time to pull.'
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Taking in advice from my friend, Mavs, I manage to more than double my initial flight distance by the end of my trip. I have found the sweet spot. The secret that we're all searching for. Speed = Glide. I learn how important my angle of attack is when it comes to covering distance. I learn the details about making your body as aerodynamic as it can be in your particular suit. Stand as awkwardly as you can, and it's probably close. 'Turtle head', head down and forward. Rolled shoulders, elbows out, hands light on the grippers. Legs pegged and shoulder width apart. Pressure on the upper thighs and hips back.
After an amazing 11 days in Italy. We all pile into Dick M. Petersen (the RV of course) and head back to Switzerland. I'm exhausted after making 16 jumps off a 4,000ft cliff in 11 days. Hiking, jumping, swimming, heat and sleeping on an air mattress in a tent; I'm out for the count. I wake up about an hour from Luzzone. We're heading to the dam there to break up our wingsuit jumping with a slider down dam jump.
We get there and the weather is perfect. We grab lunch and start packing our parachutes. We all gear up at the RV and casually walk out to the dam. We try not to draw much attention, but there is a group of boy scouts on a field trip looking at us strangely. There are two people on the dam as we approach it. Now technically this isn't illegal. Just not so common, I guess. We gear up. Mat and I go first. I take a long delay and open below him. He hucks a tweener off the top. Pilot chute between your legs gainer. Ick. Haha. Its sick... see the photo.
Woody and Spready, our trusty RV driving, Aussie friends, jump right after us. A perfectly executed 2 way. We're stoked. It's like this dam was made for BASE jumping. It's so mellow that there is talk of a second jump. But it's getting late and we still have 2 hours of driving to get to the valley.
I'm feeling like a champ in Italy. As I said before... I love scaring myself. So back to Lauterbrunnan for wingsuit scaring part 2!
Part 2 of My Summer Vacation - Jill Kuzman
First jump off Brento, I'm terrified all over again. New exit point. Further to fly to the landing. Different wind conditions. I walk down to the exit point after gearing up. I grab one of the ropes set up for safety. And manage to slip on the polished rock. I hold onto the rope, but drop my helmet and goggles. Slow motion, they bounce twice and disappear off the side of the cliff. Bad sign?! Who knows. Just a little fear icing on my fear cake.


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on 28-02-2011 20:57
I need a specific phone number to contact virgin media on to escalate an unresolved complaint. Virgin have not responded within the indicated time for either my web complaints or written letter - very poor customer service. My complaint relates to an unacceptably long period of loss of phone service, and the resulting inadequate 'compensation' offered.
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OK then, via the web link it seems I need to call 0845 454 1111. Having called this number already, I found no specific complaints option. Trying the 'billing' and 'leaving virgin' options only led me down blind alleys with no response/call was hung up.
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There is no contact number for our complaints team as they deal with written queries. There are other methods of communication as speciifed in the link
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You say that 'There is no contact number for our complaints team as they deal with written queries. There are other methods of communication as speciifed in the link' :
I have already tried the other methods of communication as specified in the link, i.e. complaint via the web based form, and via written letter. I haven't had the courtesy of a reply within the virgin specified time frame for either of these methods - what else am I suposed to do??
on 28-02-2011 21:39
Christopher_G wrote:
There is no contact number for our complaints team as they deal with written queries. There are other methods of communication as speciifed in the link
Someone had better ask the complaints team to read this section from your companies own Consumer Complaint Resolution Code of Practice then.
'We prefer to resolve complaints by telephone – but if you'd prefer to receive a response in writing, then please ask.'
Good luck igw69! At the very least they should acknowledge your complaint.
on 28-02-2011 21:41
I am in the same boat, how can a complaints team not have a phone number? Surely customers should be able to contact them after a complaint is raised and not dealt with!!
Its seems to sum up my whole experience with Virgin Media's customer service, poorest I have ever received from any company.
on 01-03-2011 11:37
Im in the same boat to. I have filled in numerous forms on the internet and get fobbed off by VM on the phone. Dont give up keep going on at them. Get the compensation you deserve, then shop around. Sometimes value for money means nothing when your custom means nothing to them.
on 01-03-2011 18:50
Another day, another missed call from the complaints team!! If I could actually call them back this would have all been sorted by now!
How is this anyway for a company to deal with complaints??
on 01-03-2011 21:43
I think the lack of *any* response from virgin re my web complaints or written letter speaks volumes about how virgin view their existing customers. As long as they keep receiving your monthly payments, you don't matter very much to them. Consequently, I'll be voting with my feet and going elsewhere - bit of a shame as I've been a loyal virgin customer since the early days in 1997.


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