A Commentary On Confused Understanding Of Mindfulness

So I've just read this article:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/09/forget-mindfulness-stop-trying-to-find-yourself-start-faking-it-confucius

I have a few comments...

1. "Stop finding yourself." Okay so the article has conficting messages here as this is the message given in mindfulness, yet later it says, "stop doing mindfulness." Mindfulness teaches that there is the "me" - the person who feels the feelings, and then there is the "I", the person who observes the "me". The "I" can be seen as the "blue sky", and the feelings are clouds that come and go. Mindfulness teaches that you should try to move towards the "I" - a detached observer. There is no "I am happy/depressed" - there is, "I am feeling happy, depressed at this moment." With regards to "stop finding yourself", this mindful mentality states that you can never truly know the "I": the observer cannot observe itself, just as an eye cannot see itself and a knife cannot cut itself. Essentially, mindfulness teaches that we can never know ourselves, or know the observer.

2. The article writes, "stop looking inward, start looking ouward," but now we've over-reacted and just shifted the problem from one side of the see-saw to the other. The trick is to do both. you can't run a successful company by getting loads of sales and winning business if the product you're making - you're making at a loss. Likewise, you can't run a successful human if you're producing loads of stuff but inside he's a mess. He might be able to produce something, but he might not be happy with where he's going or his life.