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Nodes for the term “meditation”
The most difficult yoga asana is ...
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You can’t light a lamp, there’s no oil in the house (poem)
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Albert Einstein, Zen Master?
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“Maintain full awareness during dream as well as in waking life”
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You and me together, right?
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Equanimity definition (and equanimity vs indifference or apathy) (Shinzen Young quote)
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My favorite meditation instruction for beginners
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Not touching your face in public reminds me of trying to meditate at a Zen center
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We do not see things as they are
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Some of Shinzen Young’s sayings in the first core lessons of the Brightmind app
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Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master
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Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of consciousness
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The one good thing about chest pain
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Quotes about work and Zen (practicing Zen at work)
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“Absolute stillness and silence, as if one had landed on the Moon”
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Do you hear the murmuring sound of the mountain stream?
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Gratitude helps shut down distractions during meditation
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The benefits of mantra in meditation practice
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Practicing The Jhanas
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The Soul Game
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Meditation: From Guilty -> I could do this forever
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You can’t learn to meditate in the middle of a crisis
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Notes from a retreat in 2006
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Morality, the first meditation training
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Six ways to meditate (Vince Horn, Buddhist Geeks)
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New meditation cushion (zabuton)
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On Zen and finding true sanctuary
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The farther you get away from the body, the more you know you
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The intensity of a monk’s meditation states befuddles science
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Shinzen Young’s story of Shingon/Shinto training
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When meditation isn’t enough
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The meaning of the word “dakini” (Sanskrit, Tibet)
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“Bring your mind to one point and wait for grace”
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What I know about deep meditation states
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Make a game of active mindfulness meditation
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Stuff that will make you wonder about the nature of reality
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When inside and outside become one
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Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface
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91-year-old meditation master Ruth Denison
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You must concentrate upon each day
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In deep zazen our true desires are revealed
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Enlightenment is like a free fall
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“The day becomes something that happens within your meditation.”
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Seeing everything as moving subatomic particles
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Meditation brings back all sorts of memories
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One way to meditate without distraction
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Goodnight Metta: A bedtime meditation for children
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What meditation can be like (Eat, Pray, Love)
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If you have contact with pure consciousness ...
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Learn to be still
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Shikantaza is Understanding Emptiness
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A favorite quote from the book, Zen Training
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How can we prevent our thoughts from wandering?
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Shinzen Young and meditating in the freezing cold
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Living another lifetime in a dream
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Standing on a street corner (in meditation)
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How to have lucid dreams
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The day becomes something that happens within your meditation
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Katsuki Sekida, English teacher, Zen teacher
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Thai boys trapped in a cave were found meditating
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How wonderful is enlightenment?
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I’ve stuck with Zen because it is unflinchingly honest
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17 ways to use meditation for anxiety relief right now
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Mindfulness lesson: Keep practicing, even when you don’t want to
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If somebody is a problem for you, it’s not that they should change
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Ram Dass on sleep and dreaming
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“Man is drawn between two paths...”
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David Lynch on fear, depression, and anger
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David Lynch, transcendental meditation proponent
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The same cosmic forces that mold galaxies, stars, and atoms ...
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Practicing mindfulness meditation and yoga to calm the mind
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Mobile meditation bus
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Go beneath the story ... meditation is the tool for that
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Pema Chodron and our “propensity” for certain behaviors
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“There is no stronger method of bringing consistent lucidity to dream”
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The correct mental state for Zen and mindfulness meditation
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Your true self
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Let it go (meditate)
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“Help, I’m stressed”
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On wasting your time meditating
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Another mindfulness meditation health analysis
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Can mindfulness meditation make you more creative?
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Story about Lakers’ coach Luke Walton (and mindfulness and meditation)
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Ram Dass on spirituality and meditation
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Mindfulness metaphor
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Meditating while awake/asleep
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In meditation ... we are not searching ~ Joseph Goldstein
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Praying is talking to the universe, meditation is listening
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The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works
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Mindfulness meditation reduced chaotic activity in the brain and the heart
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Riding the wave of a natural, meditative state
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Buddha was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?”
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Meditation is to bring the complex consciousness to simplicity and innocence
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The judging mind is optional; it can be understood and released
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Mindfulness meditation: Be like a cat purring
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The case of the cursing woman
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Why we keep our eyes open during zazen
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Who you are is more than who you think you are
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A few meditation notes (calming, quality)
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Mindfulness meditation reduces stress
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The less there was of me, the happier I got
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Do not try to experience satori
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What to do on those days when you just can’t meditate
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“The path I have followed has been dangerous”
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Meditation as a sport
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The primary agenda for doing insight practices
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An accidental finding about meditation and sleep
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“I’m such a liar”
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Why meditation is becoming popular in prisons
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My current reading list (it’s all about mindfulness)
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Zen funny: Losing an I
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Shunryu Suzuki - Keep your doors open
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Fukan zazengi (Zazen meditation instructions)
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Free course: The Five Styles of Meditation
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10% Happier
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An employee retiring from Google to work on inner peace and world peace
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Metta meditation instructions
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“Death is just a change in lifestyles”
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The Mindful Geek’s “meditation algorithm” (and “labeling”)
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The meditation teaching of S.N. Goenka
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The Muse Headband
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How to meditate into pain
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Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation changes your brain
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Eight weeks to a better brain
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Kensho
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Mikey Siegel's "enlightenment button"
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Grow more brain
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The Mindful Geek - mindfulness without religion
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Arnold Schwarzenegger says a year of practicing Transcendental Meditation changed his life
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Understanding the truth
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Thich Nhat Hanh - How to sit in meditation
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Mindfulness infographic communicates data with shapes, colors, and font sizes
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Treat every moment as your last ~ Shunryu Suzuki
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SoundSelf
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What we do in life echoes in eternity
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The key to meditation is learning to stay
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Emotiv neuroheadsets
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MBAs turn to meditation
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Meditation peer pressure in Silicon Valley
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Distraction keeps you from enlightenment
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Headspace meditation
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Mindfulness becomes mandatory
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Bunny Buddhism
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Shinzen Young on meditation, aging, and senility
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When The Chocolate Runs Out
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Lama Yeshe and The Force
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Meditation cartoon: Sick of own breathing
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A geek meditation session
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The most important meditation text I read in 2013
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My notes from a TED Talk by Shawn Achor, titled "The Happy Secret to Better Work"
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Meditation leads to concentration
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Ways to improve your brain power
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A simple Mac Meditation application
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The Mystical Kabbalah
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