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Episode 74 - The business of Buddha with Rohan Gunatillake
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Rohan mindfulness tool manifesto Blog https://medium.com/@rohan_21awake/10-things-i-hate-about-mindfulness-2b9836f6bc9a#.57dro46lc
Rohan's background: Dad, 35, Culturally Buddhist, Scotland for costs, Dog lover, Lifestyle designer, mindfulness based product creator.
Slow Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture)
Dualism of slow and fast life?
Prioritizing wellbeing in an urban environment over "work life balance"
"As soon as you draw a line in the sand you start a war"
"The duality of the forest and the city is incredibly pervasive"
The contextualize application experience of Buddify http://buddhify.com
People are terrified to go home after they go to retreat, so how do you solve this challenge?
Applying design principles to the mindfulness world.
Lowering the barrier to entry vs defining a journey. The church of mindfulness objective to turn everyone into meditators vs solve their problems.Is the application "Headspace" application the future of mindfulness applications?
Meditation app's that are 50-100X investment
Subscription mindfulness (Calm.com, Buddify)
Old school Buddhist, "Where is the suffering"
"We are creating a generation of people who can only meditate with an app"
Buddhist applications, they should be designed to use and stop!
Buddify is a 5.00 product with no subscription so you could start using it and not have to live with it for the rest of your life.
Inapp purchase is hiding content, all the areas of your life should be available.
"My motivation is to create, creative, independent meditators"
The business model for Buddhism should be build for the journey.
Is there technical magic with Buddify, how does know what I'm doing it?
The jogger who couldn’t run because of technology <https://twitter.com/chrisdancy/status/680836354796851200 >
The culture of interdependency with applications.
The grokking of the practice "Mindfulness apps are teaching mindfulness but they maybe not building wisdom"
Five years of mindfulness apps, we solved access, now lets solve dependency.
Dukkha - is a Buddhist term commonly translated as "suffering", "anxiety", "stress", or "unsatisfactoriness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukkha
The value of group meditation vs plugging in headphones and listening to an app.
Historically meditation was done in communities.
Sharing the practices deepens it
How do we br...
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Beautiful global time tool http://worldchatclock.com/?a%5B0%5D%5Bname%5D=Singapore+ST&a%5B0%5D%5Btz%5D=Asia%2FSingapore&a%5B0%5D%5BisHome%5D=true&a%5B1%5D%5Bname%5D=London&a%5B1%5D%5Btz%5D=Europe%2FLondon&a%5B1%5D%5BisHome%5D=false&a%5B2%5D%5Bname%5D=New+York+City&a%5B2%5D%5Btz%5D=America%2FNew_York&a%5B2%5D%5BisHome%5D=false&isAP=1
Rohan mindfulness tool manifesto Blog https://medium.com/@rohan_21awake/10-things-i-hate-about-mindfulness-2b9836f6bc9a#.57dro46lc
Rohan's background: Dad, 35, Culturally Buddhist, Scotland for costs, Dog lover, Lifestyle designer, mindfulness based product creator.
Slow Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture)
Dualism of slow and fast life?
Prioritizing wellbeing in an urban environment over "work life balance"
"As soon as you draw a line in the sand you start a war"
"The duality of the forest and the city is incredibly pervasive"
The contextualize application experience of Buddify http://buddhify.com
People are terrified to go home after they go to retreat, so how do you solve this challenge?
Applying design principles to the mindfulness world.
Lowering the barrier to entry vs defining a journey. The church of mindfulness objective to turn everyone into meditators vs solve their problems.Is the application "Headspace" application the future of mindfulness applications?
Meditation app's that are 50-100X investment
Subscription mindfulness (Calm.com, Buddify)
Old school Buddhist, "Where is the suffering"
"We are creating a generation of people who can only meditate with an app"
Buddhist applications, they should be designed to use and stop!
Buddify is a 5.00 product with no subscription so you could start using it and not have to live with it for the rest of your life.
Inapp purchase is hiding content, all the areas of your life should be available.
"My motivation is to create, creative, independent meditators"
The business model for Buddhism should be build for the journey.
Is there technical magic with Buddify, how does know what I'm doing it?
The jogger who couldn’t run because of technology <https://twitter.com/chrisdancy/status/680836354796851200 >
The culture of interdependency with applications.
The grokking of the practice "Mindfulness apps are teaching mindfulness but they maybe not building wisdom"
Five years of mindfulness apps, we solved access, now lets solve dependency.
Dukkha - is a Buddhist term commonly translated as "suffering", "anxiety", "stress", or "unsatisfactoriness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukkha
The value of group meditation vs plugging in headphones and listening to an app.
Historically meditation was done in communities.
Sharing the practices deepens it
How do we br...