“Mindfulness” is an oxymoron. The goal of mindfulness is to escape your mind, to escape, as much as you can, the thoughts that clutter your mind. So maybe we should call it mindfreeness, mindemptiness or even mindlessness, though that one has negative social connotations.
Of course, we need our minds to think up all the good stuff we want to think up: poems, solutions to the climate crisis, song titles.… But with mindfreeness, we can think…
