[jazzyjackson]

This is my favorite rant on HN yet

Buddhism was already distilled “Hinduism for Export”, it is foolish to distill it further. IMO the whole fad is a result of Americans mistaking Buddhism for religion, and not pre-western psychology, so in a bid to get the benefits without the baggage, and to be allowed to teach yoga in schools, mindfulness practitioners dropped the spiritual framework and just said “focus on your breath, it’s good for you”

[noduerme]

You said it better than I could have. I'm annoyed about the secondary effects of falsy beliefs, but I think you got more directly to the root of it. Lots of religions are more palatable upon export, is a good point. The Romans would have never picked up Christianity as a fashionable cult unless it had mostly dropped the whole monotheistic thing.