Is the promotion of meditation activities by my university a form of religious discrimination? My university constantly promotes activities of meditation, mindfulness and other &quot;new age&quot; activities inspired from some eastern spiritualities (particularly Hinduism and Buddhism). The university is secular and would surely not widely promote Christian, Jewish, Muslim or other religions' activities, calls for prayers and the like. Is this a form of discrimination in favour of certain spiritualities?
I wonder what your experience is about this.
On the basis of the following definitions, I see no basis to consider meditation nor mindfullness to be solely associated with a particular religion.

Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique...to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state (Wikipedia).

Mindfulness is the psychological process of purposely bringing one's attention to experiences occurring in the present moment without judgment (Wikipedia).


I do not consider the origins of these activities relevant. (I will note that Wikipedia discusses meditation in the context of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.)