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Zindel Segal – Mindfulness and Depression

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The Concept of Self in Buddhist Philosophy

Some practitioners of mindfulness will go down that path about deconstructing the self and identity feels like a really central part of depression or the experience of depression. So I'm wondering if, if NBCT or your approach goes there at all with the concepts of self or is that kind of a different plane than that works on? What would you guess? It doesn't go there explicitly, but it might be happening implicitly. Yeah. There's nothing in our curriculum that talks about not self. But there's a lot in our curriculumThat talks about not identifying with mental contents. And so as you start to see that the ideas put forward by the mind are sometimes not really experienced in that way when

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