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061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft

You Are Not So Smart

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Meditation and Mindfulness - What Is It All About?

According to Akhmed, the Western world dabbled off and on with meditation and mindfulness leading up to the Cold War. The leaders of the counterculture movement in the 1950s and 1960s were very taken by these religions that were coming into the U.S., he says. "Zen Buddhism especially, a certain sensibility, a certain way of being in the world that was very appealing"

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