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Becoming a Buddhist: Two renowned teachers, two stories of transformation

Life Examined

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How Meditation Played a Role in Making Sense of Reality

I'd love for you to say a bit more about this idea of of not being aware of what we're feeling. meditation played the first role in it because it's how I did it and partly it's also going because method which these days we would call the body scan very much popularized by John Kemp or sin with my philanthropist stress reduction. You sweep your attention through your body and you feel these different sensations known as introception, those are tied to emotion often and two old patterns that were holding in the body so it was like a direct hit right there.

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