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DWM Compared to leisurely walks, a brisk paced walk is a healthier option as it improves brain, heart, and lung function.

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The more clearly we see the lack of worth in mental and physical sensations, the less desire we’ll have for them until, thoroughly disenchanted, craving will be snuffed out automatically. As soon as that occurs, pure happiness will arise by itself.

—Cynthia Thatcher, “What’s So Great About Now?”

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the First Noble Truth that every moment of samsara, every blip of mind (nama) and matter (rupa), was unsatisfactory (dukkha).

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in fact, the more mindfulness we have, the less compelling sense-objects seem, until at last we lose all desire for them.

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The Gordian knot needed untangling. And why not approach it in a rigorous manner, strand by strand? A scientist might first analyze the material in question, which in this case was the present moment itself.

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 There is a system of Buddhist metaphysics called Abhidhamma, in which we learn that our day-to-day experience can be broken down into units called “mind-moments.” These moments are the smallest bits of consciousness—the quarks of the mental world.

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The Buddha said, Sabbe sankhara anicca: All formations are impermanent and therefore unsatisfactory, even the ones that seem heavenly. He didn’t add the footnote: “Psst! Some formations are wonderful.”

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he called it a “perversion of view” (vipallasa) to regard what is ultimately undesirable as worthwhile or beautiful.

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Old Souls is a fascinating account of Shroder’s travels

with Stevenson through Lebanon, India, and Virginia in search of

verification of the continuity of human conciousness beyond death.”

—New York Press

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