While I can&#x27;t speak for the person you&#x27;re responding to, my recent interesting Zen Buddhism has left me quite impressed with the things they figured out centuries ago that only really entered our social world relatively recently via the field of psychology.<p>Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), for example, as one of the few proven effective approaches in therapy, is in many ways not so different from (zen) Buddhist practices. And the growing body of research on meditation and mindfulness is at least indicating that these things are very good for an individual&#x27;s well-being.<p>While I personally do not care much for the more spiritual and religious sides of all this, I&#x27;ve definitely become less dismissive of these things.