Can you be a Buddhist and a Marxist?

Slott, Michael

doi:10.1080/14639947.2011.610640

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“…A Buddhist MPV, guided by right mindfulness, may then serve as a basis for emancipatory, radical management (Dyck & Shroeder, 2005). Buddhist mindfulness can confront exploitative systems of management and power structure but with attitudes of loving-kindness, compassion, and skillful attentiveness (Slott, 2011). A radical management perspective aimed at emancipation can benefit from Buddhist mindfulness by reducing ego-based desire, anger, and delusion—the core defilements underlying power, domination, and callous indifference.…”

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Mindfulness Revisited

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Milillo

2014

Journal of Management Inquiry

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Recent scholarship on mindfulness has narrowly focused on attention enhancement, present-moment awareness, and its stress reduction effects. Moreover, current operational definitions of mindfulness in the literature differ considerably from those derived from classic Buddhist canonical sources. This article revisits the meaning, function, and purpose of Buddhist mindfulness by proposing a triadic model of “right mindfulness.” A Buddhist-based conceptualization of right mindfulness provides both a theoretical and ethical corrective to the decontextualized individual-level construct of mindfulness that has informed the organizational theory and practitioner literature. We argue that a denatured mindfulness divorced from its soteriological context reduces it to a self-help technique that is easily misappropriated for reproducing corporate and institutional power, employee pacification, and maintenance of toxic organizational cultures.

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Mindfulness Revisited

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Milillo

2014

Journal of Management Inquiry

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“…Communist-utopian societies seek to develop full human potential, allocate resources for the benefit of all, and guarantee income, health services and education, thereby diminishing insecurity (Slott, 2011). However, life still causes suffering.…”

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“…For example, Slott (2011) argues that both philosophies privilege change, share a humanistic goal of alleviating suffering and reject otherworldly absolutes and dualisms.…”

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“…It is imperative to recognise that individual transformation is a prerequisite of social transformation -and equally important to understand that social structures shape and constitute the individual. Buddhism's prescription for happiness can be criticised as lacking an understanding of the social conditions that cause suffering, while Marxism overlooks the existential facts of suffering (Slott, 2011).…”

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Incorporating mindfulness: questioning capitalism

Scherer

Waistell

2018

Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion

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This paper engages with Buddhist critiques of capitalism and consumerism; and it challenges the capitalist appropriations of Buddhist techniques. We show how Buddhist modernism and Marxism/socialism can align, and how Engaged Buddhism spawns communalism and socially revolutionary impulses for sustainability and ecological responsibility within the framework of Buddhist thought and mindfulness traditions. Our case study of the Thai Asoke community exemplifies Buddhist communal mindfulness-in-action, explores successes and idiosyncrasies, and shows how communal principles can operate in such work-based communities.

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Nonconceptual Mindfulness: Navigating Crisis Preparedness for Crisis Management

Nguyen

2022

Faith Traditions and Practices in the Workplace Volume II

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Can you be a Buddhist and a Marxist?

Cited by 6 publications

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Mindfulness Revisited

Mindfulness Revisited

Incorporating mindfulness: questioning capitalism

Nonconceptual Mindfulness: Navigating Crisis Preparedness for Crisis Management

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