And strictly speaking,most of them are not mindfulness. There's Transcendental...

[narrator] And strictly speaking,
most of them are not mindfulness. There's Transcendental Meditation, which The Beatles got into
while writing the White Album. The idea here is to repeat a mantra,
a word or sound, until you transcend thought entirely. Then there's Dynamic Meditation, which
is supposed to break old thought patterns. You may recognize it from coverage
of the Rajneeshpuram community. Most religions have some kind of practice
that could be called meditation, quietly contemplating scripture
or forms of ritual prayer intended to bring you closer to God. Some of the oldest forms of meditation
come from early Hinduism. According to tradition, around 500 BC, the Buddha studied these techniques, but then, he added his own spin. [man] He systematically developed a new meditation technique that is called
the Satipatthana Meditation