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Jon Kabat-Zinn - The Heart of Mindfulness

Mind & Life

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Silence and the Poetic Imagination

Every moment is a profound gift opportunity and everybody is the beneficiary of you are not believing in your what we might call small self or small self narrative because when you're really who you are you are infinitely lovable. When you are contracted around your personal pronouns you're a pain in the butt through most people even people love you the most they know when you're contracted better than you do often. We generate stories that may be true to a degree but they're never true enough and they never never big enough. silence itself is in some sense the greatest poem silent wakefulness in Zen tradition all of the great Zen masters were poets.

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