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Michael Imperioli (From The Sopranos and White Lotus) Knows a Shitload About Buddhist Meditation

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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How to Be a Bodhisattva

A Bodhisattva is someone whose primary focus in their life, primary motivation, intention is to be a benefit to all beings. In the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism, you are committing to returning in your subsequent lifetimes to come back rather than just reach enlightenment and be in some kind of nirvana state for eternity. You will not stop that until all sentient beings become enlightened. So if we're interested in moving some or part of the way or all the way toward being a bodhisattva, these practices are of interest. And number 36 is wherever you are, whatever you do, always examine the state of your mind because that's where everything happens.

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