See this article.
"But for some Buddhists, and we include ourselves in this group, there is
a growing concern that the mindfulness movement has the potential to
push to the margins contemporary Buddhism’s dialogue with tradition,
diminishing its capacity to serve as a challenge to materialist
attitudes and values. The rapid mainstreaming of mindfulness has
provided a domesticated and tame set of meditation techniques for mainly
upper-middle-class and corporate elites so they may become more self-accepting of their anxieties, helping them to 'thrive,' to have
it all—money, power and well-being, continuing business-as-usual more
efficiently and, of course, more 'mindfully'—while conveniently
side-stepping any serious soul searching into the causes of widespread
social suffering."
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