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| Introduction: The Challenge of a Life's Time-and a Lifetime | |
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| Meditation: It's Not What You Think | |
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| Meditation Is Not for the Faint-Hearted | |
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| Witnessing Hippocratic Integrity | |
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| Meditation Is Everywhere | |
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| Original Moments | |
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| Odysseus and the Blind Seer | |
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| No Attachments | |
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| The Origin of Shoes: A Tale | |
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| Meditation-It's Not What You Think | |
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| Two Ways to Think about Meditation | |
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| Why Even Bother? The Importance of Motivation | |
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| Aiming and Sustaining | |
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| Presence | |
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| A Radical Act of Love | |
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| Awareness and Freedom | |
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| On Lineage and the Uses and Limitations of Scaffolding | |
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| Ethics and Karma | |
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| Mindfulness | |
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| The Power of Attention and the Dis-Ease of the World | |
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| Why Paying Attention Is So Supremely Important | |
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| Dis-Ease | |
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| Dukkha | |
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| Dukkha Magnets | |
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| Dharma | |
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| The Stress Reduction Clinic | |
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| A.D.D. Nation | |
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| 24/7 Connectivity | |
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| Continual Partial Attention | |
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| The "Sense" of Time Passing | |
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| Awareness Has No Center and No Periphery | |
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| Emptiness | |
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| The Sensory World: Your One Wild and Precious Life | |
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| The Mystery of the Senses and the Spell of the Sensuous | |
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| Seeing | |
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| Being Seen | |
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| Hearing | |
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| Soundscape | |
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| Airscape | |
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| Touchscape | |
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| In Touch with Your Skin | |
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| Smellscape | |
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| Tastescape | |
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| Mindscape | |
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| Nowscape | |
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| Embracing Formal Practice: Tasting Mindfulness | |
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| Lying Down Meditations | |
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| Sitting Meditations | |
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| Standing Meditations | |
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| Walking Meditations | |
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| Yoga | |
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| Just Knowing | |
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| Just Hearing | |
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| Just Breathing | |
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| Lovingkindness Meditation | |
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| Am I Doing It Right? | |
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| Common Obstacles to Practice | |
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| Supports for Your Practice | |
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| Healing Possibilities: The Realm of Mind and Body | |
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| Sentience | |
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| Nothing Personal, But, Excuse Me...Are We Who We Think We Are? | |
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| Even Our Molecules Touch | |
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| No Fragmentation | |
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| No Separation | |
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| Orienting in Time and Space: A Tribute to My Father | |
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| Orthogonal Reality-Rotating in Consciousness | |
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| Orthogonal Institutions | |
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| A Study in Healing and the Mind | |
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| A Study in Happiness-Meditation, the Brain, and the Immune System | |
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| Homunculus | |
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| Proprioception-The Felt Sense of the Body | |
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| Neuroplasticity and the Unknown Limits of the Possible | |
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| Arriving at Your Own Door | |
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| "I Can't Hear Myself Think!" | |
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| I Didn't Have a Moment to Catch My Breath | |
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| The Infidelity of Busyness | |
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| Interrupting Ourselves | |
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| Filling Up All Our Moments | |
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| Attaining Place | |
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| You Can't Get There from Here | |
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| Overwhelmed | |
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| Dialogues and Discussions | |
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| Sitting on the Bench | |
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| You Crazy! | |
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| Phase Changes | |
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| You Make, You Have | |
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| Any Ideal of Practice Is Just Another Fabrication | |
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| You Want to Make Something of It? | |
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| Who Won the Super Bowl? | |
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| Arrogance and Entitlement | |
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| Death | |
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| Dying Before You Die | |
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| Dying Before You Die-Deux | |
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| Don't Know Mind | |
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| Arriving at Your Own Door | |
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| Healing the Body Politic | |
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| Healing the Body Politic | |
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| "I Read the News Today, Oh Boy" | |
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| Reminding Myself That Self-Righteousness Is Not Helpful | |
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| Politics Not as Usual in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Lessons from Medicine | |
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| The Taming Power of the Small | |
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| Mindfulness and Democracy | |
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| Talking Vietnam Meditation Blues-A Snapshot from the Past, or Is It the Future? | |
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| Wag the Dog | |
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| "I Don't Know What I Would Have Done Without My Practice!" | |
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| The Suspension of Distraction | |
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| Moments of Silence | |
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| The Ascendancy of the Mindful | |
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| Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do | |
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| Different Ways of Knowing Make Us Wiser | |
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| On the Doorstep: Karma Meets Dharma-A Quantum Leap for Homo Sapiens Sapiens | |
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| Reflections on the Nature of Nature and Where We Fit In | |
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| Hidden Dimensions Unfurled | |
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| Getting Things in Perspective | |
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| Related Readings | |
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| Index | |
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| Credits and Permissions | |
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| Mindfulness Meditation Practice CDs | |