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Ep98 - Andy Puddicombe | Mindfulness Made Simple

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What Are the Positive Impacts of Meditation and Mindfulness?

How do you see this influencing American society as knowledge of this practice grows? My main hope is that the compassion element is not lost. The thing that I saw immediately when meditation and mindfulness started coming across to the West was it was a huge amount of focus on attention, on awareness, on not being distracted. But if you go back to that original definition of mindfulness and that open, curious and kind mind, for me, there is something missing in our practice.

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