
We Are Born of Our Actions: Dancing with the Law of Karma
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The Importance of Mindfulness Meditation
Buddhism emphasises the need to use mindfulness as a support for ethical behaviour. The practice of mindfulness offers the possibility of freeing ourselves from this habitual responsiveness. Buddhism would say there's a crucial ethical moment in every experience. So if we can abide with that feeling tone, that pleasant, unpleasantness, neutrality with awareness, that creates a kind of spaciousness. We see an alternative, that's in line with the precepts and we opt for that. This is freedom.
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