“Just like the gentrification of a neighborhood where new, wealthy people displace people who have lived there longer,” Ream writes, “the dharma is undergoing a process of gentrification in San Francisco today.”
Powerful, well-funded institutions want to invest in Buddhism. They’ve been eyeing the neighborhood for ways to manage employee stress and put a more compassionate face on free trade. The only question is whether the current tenants will band together to disrupt them."
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/05/gentrifying_the_dharma_how_the_1_is_hijacking_mindfulness/
This happened to the Jesus movement 1700 years ago. Perverted Christianity has nothing to do with the Gospel either.
Power butt yoga and mindfulness for oligarchs are the polar opposites of the great systems they claim. Maybe big pharma can create an injectable dose of Buddhism-Dharmavol-300mg.
