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Willa Blythe Baker - Meditating with the Body

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Is There a Connection Between Meditation and Community?

In a community, practising in a community is a powerful way to develop connection and compassion and kindness. In buddhist community, we talk about the power of songa. Songa just means community. There's something very important in our practice of meditation about connecting to others who are also doing similar kinds of practices. Those relationships can help support the practice. And that can go much more widely than just the meditation community or the songa. I think that's a really fascinating area. i hope that the research will move you. It would be really interesting if that could be measured, a kind of sense ity to what's happening in the mind body.

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