If mindfulness is the answer then what is the question?

Questions

How can we reduce greed, exploitation and zealoutry?

• How can we reduce the rate of consumption in the rich countries (greed)?
• How can we reduce the exploitation of workers and the physical environment?
• How can we reduce religious and cultural zealoutry?

Answers

By changing our minds through mindfulness (It is never too late!)

By making time to sit quietly

• On a regular basis
• When feeling agitated
• Before making decisions (responding mindfully rather than reacting mindlessly)
• While on your own or in company with others

By letting go of narrow world views and parochial points of view (renunciation).

By mindfully embracing mind expanding thought patterns associated with

• Big History - forward from the big bang – the big picture
• consilience between neurology and evolutionary psychology
• altered states of consciousness, neural plasticity and no boundaries