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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Thursday morning. A lot of different

things have happened to mindfulness over the years. One of the things I thought I never

really expected to see happen was what I like to think of as the weaponization of mindfulness.

I don't know if you've ever come across this. I thought of it when I heard someone say,

well that wasn't very mindful, was it? It was almost like how could you take that sort

of mindfulness, which is this non-judgmental state, free of any sort of criticism and bias

and use it in a really judgmental way. I laughed as I think that we probably all do it

at times. It reminded me actually of being in a retreat and you might think, well there's

no way that people are being judgmental and everything else in retreat. Remember, these

are just human beings in a retreat condition. All of the same stuff that arises in everyday

life arises in retreat. The only difference is that within a retreat there is the opportunity

in the environment to see those behaviors more clearly and therefore create a bit of space

to work with them in a different way. I don't remember. As she wasn't that uncommon to

see Tibetan scripture used in a sort of British passive-aggressive way. I mean that's a real

art, trust me, to approach Tibetan scripture in that way. But there would be the temptation

sometimes to almost use that position of awareness as a way of criticizing others. It's a really

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