Funie Hsu
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Teaching Buddhism, Mindfulness, and Whiteness
Blog Series: Changing Scholarship
April 07, 2025
Tags: mindfulness | whiteness | Changing Scholarship | Buddhism | Funie Hsu | Jon Kabat-Zinn | MBSR | Asian American Buddhism
Funie Hsu’s “How Mainstream Mindfulness Erases Its Buddhist Roots” hit my classroom like a bombshell. We had studied Hindu and Buddhist teachings in my sophomore-level philosophy class, and we were ending the semester by discussing the mindfulness movement. I had introduced Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and we had ...