At Level 2, these traditions have been removed from being part of a total lifestyle—monk or yogi, for example—and adapted into forms more palatable for the West. At Level 2, meditation comes in forms that leave behind parts of the original Asian source that might not make the cross-cultural journey so easily. Then there are the wide approaches. At Level 3, a further remove takes these same meditation practices out of their spiritual context and distributes them ever more widely—as is the case with mindfulness-based stress reduction
