# Secular Buddhism & the Mindfulness Movement · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/secular-buddhism-the-mindfulness-movement/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 123 Secular Buddhism & the Mindfulness Movement MBSR; modern mindfulness 1979 CE – present · Non-Theistic / Philosophical · Living · US, UK, Europe, Australia; increasingly global VIII. POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY — 1945 – PRESENT ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - 1970s CE Vipassana teachers Goldstein, Kornfield and Salzberg found the Insight Meditation Society, presenting practice in largely secular terms. - 1979 CE MBSR founded at UMass. - 1990 CE Full Catastrophe Living published; PBS coverage brings it to a mass audience. - 1997 CE Batchelor's Buddhism Without Beliefs. - 2000s CE MBCT validated in clinical trials for relapse prevention in depression. - 2010s CE Explosive growth: Headspace (2010) and Calm (2012); mindfulness in the US Marine Corps, the UK Parliament and Google's internal training. - 2015–present The critique matures. Ronald Purser's McMindfulness (2019) argues that stripping the ethical framework turns a liberation practice into a corporate tool for making unbearable conditions bearable. Replication reviews find effect sizes smaller than early enthusiasm claimed, though real for stress and depression relapse. Reports of meditation-induced adverse events, long known in Buddhist monastic contexts, receive systematic study for the first time. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door