编辑“覺察”（章节）

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覺察作為一種「商品{{sfn|Safran|2014}}」的普及遭到批評，被一些評論家稱為「麥克覺察（McMindfulness）」<ref group=web name="McMindfulness">{{Cite web|last1=Purser|first1=Ron|last2=Loy|first2=David|date=July 1, 2013|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beyond-mcmindfulness_b_3519289|title=Beyond McMindfulness|website=HuffPost|access-date=2023-02-05|archive-date=2023-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807140858/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beyond-mcmindfulness_b_3519289|dead-url=no}}</ref><ref group=web name="TriMc">{{Cite web |url=https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/trike-contributing-editor-david-loy-takes-mcmindfulness/ |title=Trike Contributing Editor David Loy takes on "McMindfulness" |first=Alex |last=Caring-Lobel |name-list-style=vanc |date=July 2, 2013 |website=Tricycle: The Buddhist Review |access-date=2023-02-05 |archive-date=2022-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706223441/https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/trike-contributing-editor-david-loy-takes-mcmindfulness/ |dead-url=no }}</ref>{{sfn|Bazzano|2014}}。根據約翰·賽峰（John Safran）的說法，覺察的普及是營銷策略的結果{{sfn|Safran|2014}}：「麥克覺察是對構建夢想的營銷；是一種理想化的生活方式；一種身份改造{{sfn|Safran|2014}}<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1086/677842 |title=Creating the Responsible Consumer: Moralistic Governance Regimes and Consumer Subjectivity |year=2014 |last1=Giesler |first1=Markus|last2=Veresiu |first2=Ela | name-list-style = vanc |author-link1=Markus Giesler |author-link2=Ela Veresiu |journal=Journal of Consumer Research |volume=41 |issue=October |pages=849–67 |s2cid=145622639 }}</ref><ref>Safran, Jeremy D., PhD. "McMindfulness." Psychology Today. n.p., 13 June 2014. Web. 2 April 2015. <https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/straight-talk/201406/mcmindfulness>.</ref>。」心理學家{{le|湯馬士·喬伊納|Thomas Joiner}}認為，現代覺察冥想已被自助名人「腐蝕」以獲得商業利益，並暗示它鼓勵不健康的自戀與自我迷戀的心態<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bond |first1=Michael |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23531430-900-lost-in-meditation-two-books-argue-over-mindfulness/amp/ |title=Lost in meditation: Two books argue over mindfulness |journal=New Scientist |date=13 September 2017 |access-date=2023-02-05 |archive-date=2022-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627221702/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23531430-900-lost-in-meditation-two-books-argue-over-mindfulness/amp/ |dead-url=no }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mindlessness-9780190200626?cc=gb&lang=en& |title=Mindlessness: The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism |first=Thomas |last=Joiner |year=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-020062-6 |access-date=2023-02-05 |archive-date=2023-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306145540/https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mindlessness-9780190200626?cc=gb&lang=en& |dead-url=no }}</ref>。根據珀澤（Purser）和洛伊（Loy）的說法，覺察並沒有被用作喚醒對「貪婪、惡意、妄想的不善根源」的洞察手段<ref group=web name="McMindfulness" />，但它被重新塑造成一種「平庸的、治療性的、自助的」技術，這具有增強這些熱情的反效果<ref group=web name="McMindfulness" />。雖然覺察被宣傳為減輕壓力的一種方式，但在佛教語境下，它是一個包羅萬象的道德計劃的一部分，旨在培養「明智的行為、社會和諧和同情心」<ref group=web name="McMindfulness" />。覺察私有化忽略了對社會和組織原因感到的壓力與不適，而是對這些情況的傳播適應<ref group=web name="McMindfulness" />。根據菩提比丘所說，如果沒有尖銳的社會批判，佛教修行很容易被用來證明和穩定現狀，成為了消費資本主義的強化力量<ref group=web name="McMindfulness" />。這個覺察新品牌的流行正透過自助書籍、冥想指導課程和覺察靜修使冥想變得商業化。

{{Cquote|覺察據說是一個價值$40億美元的產業。亞馬遜上出售的超過60,000多本書籍的標題中都包含著「覺察」的變體，宣傳著覺察育兒、覺察飲食、覺察教學、覺察治療、覺察領導、覺察財務、覺察國家和覺察狗主......的好處，僅舉幾例<ref>{{cite web |last1=Purser |first1=Ronald |name-list-style=vanc |title=The mindfulness conspiracy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/14/the-mindfulness-conspiracy-capitalist-spirituality |website=The Guardian |date=14 June 2019 |access-date=15 January 2020 |archive-date=2023-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921201408/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/14/the-mindfulness-conspiracy-capitalist-spirituality |dead-url=no }}</ref>。}}

佛教評論家批評該運動被描述為等同於佛教修行，而實際上它很可能已變質並產生不良後果，例如沒有傳統反思道德的基礎，因此偏離了傳統佛教倫理。批評建議將其道德化或重新道德化為基於臨床的倫理學。這衝突通常跟導師的資歷和資格有關，而不是學生的實際實踐。受佛教影響的改革實踐正在標準化和手冊化，與佛教截然不同—這被視為一種以寺院為基礎的宗教—並在現代冥想中心實踐新的心理學倫理中表現為「覺察/正念」<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shonin|first1=Edo | name-list-style = vanc |title=Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness (Mindfulness in Behavioral Health)|date=August 27, 2015|publisher=Springer|pages=90–94|edition=1st}}</ref>。