The central tenet of the million selling book by Eckhart Tolle, he of the lovable garden gnome appearance,
is that we should all stay in the 'now'. Mindfulness is in vogue.
However one has to ask, does the now exist? How long is the present?
Is not time relative? ie your head is younger than your feet etc
This kind of 'now' thinking culled from ancient Buddhism and advocated by adolescent American television
'Oprah' et al, just commodifies ancient Buddhist thinking.
Isn't just great to be on the mindless treadmill of hedonistic global capitalism and to be 'Oprahed' out.
is that we should all stay in the 'now'. Mindfulness is in vogue.
However one has to ask, does the now exist? How long is the present?
Is not time relative? ie your head is younger than your feet etc
This kind of 'now' thinking culled from ancient Buddhism and advocated by adolescent American television
'Oprah' et al, just commodifies ancient Buddhist thinking.
Isn't just great to be on the mindless treadmill of hedonistic global capitalism and to be 'Oprahed' out.
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