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29: Abhaya On Beauty and The Imagination as Ways to Liberation

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The Importance of Mindfulness

The first encounter with Sangharachita was in Hazelmya August 1967. Banti introduced us to a practice called the mindfulness of breathing which the drug blew my head off. I experienced the highest state of consciousness almost within the first practice. Although very shortly afterwards I lost the beginner's mind and it became rather uphill but nevertheless it was quite an important turning point, quite an enlightening moment in the lesser sense.

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