Awake Awareness
Friends,
The excerpt this week is from a talk by Buddhist teacher Tara Brach entitled “After the RAIN (Part I): The Flowering of Awake Awareness.”
“When I first started practicing meditation [in] 1973, the view from the mainstream was that meditation was very esoteric, mysterious, otherworldly. Now, … in our contemporary society meditation is pretty accessible. Science has shown a lot about it so people are more comfortable with it. But there’s still, for many, a sense that deep spiritual realization is something that only happens to other people….”
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