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Robert Thurman: Mind, Self, and Reality (#123)

The Wisdom Podcast

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The Four Focuses of Mindfulness

In the bhipasana, you inventory your body like an anatomical map. You look at how you feel everywhere in that really sensations is a better translation. When you look at your mind and that's pretty quick in the sutra, because once you try to look atyour mind, you can find anything. And then he leads you to meditating on suffering and all the different things that are played with on pleasant experiences. But they're unaccompanied by craving and even the pleasurable ones that you might have are not pleasurable. So therefore, it's like you just are in your sensations, pleasurable things, and they take you away. Finally, the one unconsciousness just takes you

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