Our paper is about adaptations of practices from the East in the West, including yoga, mindfulness and other forms of meditation. We are looking for references that support that practices are compromised when not applied in full. This could be because of people or organisations 'cherry-picking' what suits them while ignoring the philosophy in which they are embedded, or other examples that have been soundly explored, or a related theory.
Thanks in advance, scholars!
The use of antibiotics might afford a number of examples. It isn't always wise to stop a prescribed regimen once symptoms are gone since the infection itself may not be completely gone. This webpage discusses circumstances in which it may be appropriate to discontinue as well as circumstances in which it is not appropriate to discontinue a treatment:
https://bpac.org.nz/bpj/2015/june/symptoms.aspx
Dear Marie Holm!
I suggest you read
T. Slunecko & L. Chlouba (2021). Meditation in the age of its technological mimicry. A dispositiv analysis of mindfulness applications. International Review of Theoretical Psychologies, 1(1), 63-77.
The article is open access:
https://doi.org/10.7146/irtp.v1i1.127079
Best regards from Vienna
This is a very interesting question that seemingly can be argued from various perspectives, philosophical, methodological, technological, inductive and deductive. Ethical issues concern the intention of the "cherry picker". The issue also needs consideration in various contexts, temporal, spatial, etc. Certainly in an academic context, superficial consideration of the philosophy embedding Buddhism or Taoism will distort its impact on any applied research methods and techniques used in a thesis. On the other hand, technologies based on such wisdom traditions, for example, properly researched and developed electronic apps may have wider community education and health benefits than the original tradition and even lead to further contextually relevant update refinements of the tradition. Research into examples of such studies will enable truth value evaluations of correspondence coherence, relevance etcx
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