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		<title>More difficulties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something else I thought of about the benefit of difficult meditations is that by keeping on sitting through them and bringing the mind back to attention of awareness or attention of the breath, you are building an incredibly valuable skill. What you are doing is telling your mind that whatever you are experiencing mindfulness is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supporting mindfulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is involved in attention, judgment, planning, impulse control, execution and empathy. Is this related to what buddhists call mindfulness? I think it is. Alcohol and drugs harm this part of the brain, which is why perhaps you often find injunctions to not drink or take drugs. On the other hand, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/">Seeking: How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.</a> Yoffe talks about how the brain is hard-wired to seek. A little while ago, maybe in a some somewhat esoteric post, I addressed non-Seeking.  But what's interesting in this article is that the author suggests that we need to give the brain a rest from seeking.  Again I think science has found a reflection of spiritual reality in the material form.]]></description>
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		<title>Taming the bull</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, this taming, seems to be about getting some distance on the mind; the kind of distance where thoughts are seen to be external, which is I guess glimpsing the bull. Perhaps distance should be called spaciousness. Thoughts arise within a much wider space than the thoughts themselves. And because of that distance there is a measure of control, which seems to be no control at all, because when there is control it is really thoughts controlling
thoughts. Call this wider space presence.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/taming-the-bull/</link>
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		<title>The Great Doubt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beyond pleasure and pain what do we know?]]></description>
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		<title>A field of mindfulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a family, if there is one person who practices mindfulness, the entire family will be more mindful. Because of the presence of one memeber who lives in mindfulness, the entire family is reminded to live in mindfulness. If in one class, one student lives in mindfulness, the entre class is influenced.]]></description>
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