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No need for a meditation myth at all, absolutely. It's brain hacking as far as I'm concerned.

As for concentration training vs mindfulness meditation, I do think there's a difference. Concentration is a tight single-pointed focus, while mindfulness is a broad focus on the present moment. I found mindfulness meditation basically impossible without practicing concentration meditation extensively first, my mind was too overactive to settle in the present without an anchor to focus on.