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Jon Kabat-Zinn - The Heart of Mindfulness

Mind & Life

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How Many Hours a Day Do You Mediate?

I don't think there's any question that if I hadn't gotten into meditation when I did I'd be dead long dead and also it's a very wild very self-destructive very angry energies running through me in the 60s. There's no moment of the waking day at least which isn't available for us to show up in, he says. No neuroscience can really define awareness right? We have no idea how you get sentience out of three pounds of meat and head as people like to say so out of 86 billion neurons and trillions of trillions of neuronal connections and so forth but all cells you get experienced said Francisco Varela.

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