telling people to just sit the fuck down is basically zen. Zen hasn’t conquered the world and made freedom from suffering available in every classroom, so we still have some work to do.
This isn’t instructionless meditation, it’s “give one paragraph of mindfulness instructions and tell them to sit down”, there’s a difference between that and Zen.
I assume that “sit the fuck down and practice” is a threat to philosophizing, and that this is what is motivating your pushback.
telling people to just sit the fuck down is basically zen. Zen hasn’t conquered the world and made freedom from suffering available in every classroom, so we still have some work to do.
I agree with your basic point here, though have some nits to pick about your characterization of zen :-)
This isn’t instructionless meditation, it’s “give one paragraph of mindfulness instructions and tell them to sit down”, there’s a difference between that and Zen.
I assume that “sit the fuck down and practice” is a threat to philosophizing, and that this is what is motivating your pushback.