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What is Your Mind Full Of? Mindfulness in Prophetic Practice

Hamza Yusuf

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What Is Your Mind Full Of?

The modern concept of mindfulness, it's actually what we would call vikurunafs. Like you're doing remembrance of yourself. So where does this term come from? I got interested in just where did this all come from? Well, it came from Buddhism. The Afghanis were actually great Buddhist. Afghanistan was one of the major Buddhist centers in the pre-modern world and they became Muslim very quickly.

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