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by HNLurker2 2525 days ago
>Eh, if you use the word "mindfulness," you are yoga guy

Everything in Buddhism and meditation surrounds around mindfulness/sati/awareness you call it.

>A monk isn't mindful, he is mortifying his flesh to practice the tenets of the religion he believes in so fiercely enough he is willing to self-imprison to follow it better.

Monks have to cultivate the 8 fold path which includes right mindfulness so saying he isn't doesn't make him monk. And also wow that sounds so disrespectful and ignorant.