Great questions! I’m totally with you on this—so here are a few reasons I see:
research is now starting to show that mindfulness-based interventions can be harmful, not only helpful—so we need a theory to tell us how to use meditation correctly and effectively
On the complexity side—we have a poor understanding in science how to deal with the “observer”—the hard problem of consciousness, second order chaos in finance, social phenomena and structures. These traditions claim to understand it—perhaps they do?
more general—we are in need for a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world to solve the metacrisis. Perhaps these wisdom traditions have something that, when made appropriately rigorous, can help us understand how to human better—not just individually, but collectively (hence the need for a shared language).
Great questions! I’m totally with you on this—so here are a few reasons I see:
research is now starting to show that mindfulness-based interventions can be harmful, not only helpful—so we need a theory to tell us how to use meditation correctly and effectively
On the complexity side—we have a poor understanding in science how to deal with the “observer”—the hard problem of consciousness, second order chaos in finance, social phenomena and structures. These traditions claim to understand it—perhaps they do?
more general—we are in need for a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world to solve the metacrisis. Perhaps these wisdom traditions have something that, when made appropriately rigorous, can help us understand how to human better—not just individually, but collectively (hence the need for a shared language).