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Meditation: A Key to Kindness?

How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality

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Meditation - What Is It and How Does It Work?

meditation is one of the main ways that buddhists cultivate what they call the four sublime states, love, sympathetic, joy, compassion and equanimity. Within the buddhist context, equanimity itself tends to imply indifference or coldness, or even a kind of sullenness. But it really doesn't mean that at all. It's having perspective on things. I think it actually helps us hang in there much longer, because we're not so frantic,. We're not so egoic about our efri i'm glad youe made the point that equanimity is not about being cold or aloof because ithik when a lot of people hear it

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