The first group generally won’t talk about progress or attainments in meditation practice. Secondly, there is another critical difference. Without being too unkind, Mindfulness 2.0 has no association with the self-indulgence of the 1960s.
If that’s a bunch of gobbledygook to you - perhaps a few names will help: Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Sylvia Boorstein, Jon Kabat-Zinn, etc.
Firstly, none of these people are associated with the mainstream, baby boomer driven Vipassana movement (Mindfulness 1.0). Photo by Gabriel Garcia Marengo (creative commons)
