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Part 6 - Expanding Into New Frontiers from \'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean\' by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Mindfulness has traveled a long way from its homeland in\\n northeast India. It has journeyed to the island of Sri Lanka, the\\n river basins of southeast Asia, the mountain monasteries of\\n China, Korea, and Japan, and the hermitages of the Himalayan\\n kingdoms. But the last lap of its journey is without parallel.\\n Today Buddhist meditation has been lifted from its traditional\\n setting in Buddhist doctrine and faith and transplanted in a\\n secularized culture bent on pragmatic results. Here it is finding\\n new accommodations in urban meditation centers and even in\\n busy hospitals, pain clinics, and treatment centers. Its teachers\\n and practitioners are more likely to wear street clothing or white\\n coats than ochre robes; they are more likely to hold degrees in\\n medicine and psychology than in Buddhist philosophy and\\n scripture. Meditation is being taught to help people obtain\\n release, not from the cycle of birth and death, but from the\\n strains of financial pressures, psychological disorders, and\\n stressful relationships.

narrated by Jonathan Nelson
\\n 2023
\\n 6 minutes 58 seconds\\n

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