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Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment
by Jay Michaelson
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It improves memory, immune response, self-control, attention, recovery from addiction, and emotional resilience.
meditation helps in many ways
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I’ll try to persuade you that meditation is best understood not as spirituality but as technology, as a set of tools for upgrading the mind, no more mysterious than barbells, and I’ll introduce you to people who have benefited from seeing things this way.
a tool for mind work
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That’s fine, but it does also tend to laminate the dharma in a coating of post-Sixties spiritual plastic.
really good writing
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Some of the brightest Buddhists aren’t even Buddhist anymore; this set of tools has been extracted from its cultural and religious containers (and also thrives within them, to be sure) and successfully adapted for use in prisons, hospitals, churches, family counseling sessions, hospices, schools, corporations, basketball teams, and online multi-player games.
new paths, new people, new tools, new uses
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Human beings are impelled, by these billions of years of evolution, to be dissatisfied with what they have, to want more, to over-perceive threats and act on them, to ignore what we mistakenly think is unimportant, to build and make love and achieve and flee danger—only to recognize, sooner or later, that we can never win the battle.
the way it actually is