Meditation Madness

Can We End the Meditation Madness? - exceptionally funny. just a couple of samples:

In a nationally representative eight-year study, adults who reported a lot of stress in their lives were more likely to die, but only if they thought stress was harmful.
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After spending the past four decades studying mindfulness without meditation, the Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer has identified plenty of other techniques for raising our conscious awareness of the present.

and comments, as always, wonderful. more than 300 said something, mostly - something very profound as one should expect from nyt readers.