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This salutary mode of awareness includes greater attentiveness to the consequences of one's attitudes, intentions, and actions for oneself and for those around one. One thereby transforms the score one has memorized into the ability to play, the knowledge of the chords and changes into the ability to improvise with others, and the choreography into spontaneous dance. That is why one meditates ...
— Jan 12, 2023 08:20AM
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Another face of the trope of authenticity is the conviction that alien traditions must somehow be addressed only in a "pure" form ... The idea that any intellectual tradition develops in isolation is insane, though. ... Engaged Buddhism, with its inflection by modern European thought and its attention to contemporary social science and structures, is an important instance of that fecund interaction ...
— Jan 14, 2023 11:56AM
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The term mindfulness has been somewhat hijacked in recent years by the "mindfulness industry" to mean a wide range of things that often have only the most distant relationship to the Buddhist tradition, and in particular to the system of ethical reflection in the context of which these terms find their home.
— Jan 12, 2023 08:14AM
