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> Silicon Valley is the latest player in a history of Western appropriation of Buddhism

Well it works both ways with many Asians appropriating Christianity

/sarcasm



The reason you appropriate Christianity is to get some of that colonizer cash or, farther back, under pain of torture and death.


Corporations are pushing Buddhist mindfulness to calm employees down, get them to pay attention to their job and thus increase productivity and their bottom line. It's a win win!




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