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In Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven Life, on Day Eleven, he encourages people to practice “breath prayers” by repeating words and phrases over and over in a mantra-style prayer, a practice used centuries ago by a group of mystical monks known as the Desert Fathers. This so-called “prayer” is identical to that found in Hindu yoga and Zen Buddhism.

The author displays his lack of knowledge from the bat. The Jesus Prayer as practiced to this day in Eastern Orthodoxy is _not the same as mantras used in Eastern practice. It can be _mis-used_ and turned into a mantra, but any practice can be misused. Calling out to Jesus Christ our God for help and confessing one's sinfulness from the heart (the whole point of the Jesus Prayer) is very different from Buddhist ideas. Certainly, there are external similarities to Buddhism, in this and other ancient (and not so ancient!) Christian mystical practices, but they are by no means the same. Christian spirituality has as its heart the Incarnate God.

Incidentally, I found the reference to the Desert Fathers in The Purpose Driven Life very heartening and rather surprising.

You can sugar coat it all you want but I can show you well over a hundred articles where the use of yoga and contemplative prayer is approved by the PDL ,PDC movement.
Its origin comes from Eastern Mysticism no matter how you try and water it down, its unbiblical
Its also no secret that they use Carl Jungs personality profiling.