The purpose of #meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.
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"...as Dickens observed after his visit to this country, “These Americans do love a scoundrel.”" — from Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
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