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“Meditation and spiritual practice can easily be used to suppress and avoid feeling or to escape from difficult areas of our lives. Our sorrows are hard to touch. Many people resist the personal and psychological roots of their suffering; there is so much
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Fascinating history of the genesis of vipassana in the US and its relationship to Asian Theravada Buddhism.
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Thanks for these. Read them both with great interest.
I helped to organise a one-day retreat with Jack Kornfield in London some years ago. He filled the big Quaker meeting house in Euston and held them spellbound. He had, and has, a lot of good stuff to say.
I’ve downloaded quite a bit of Kornfield audio to listen to. He seems extremely sensible.
I haven’t listened to Jack’s stuff yet but maybe I should do. I mainly use and recommend Duncan McColl’s hypnosis mp3s which are self hypnosis. Recently though I listened to a meditation on acceptance which I really enjoyed and suggested that you neither suppress nor hang on to negative experiences, feelings, thoughts etc.
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