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Author: Gullu Singh, JD

True Generosity: The Gift of Letting Go

The practice of generosity takes us out of the acquisitional paradigm of happiness that most of us get — particularly if you grew up in a Western culture — that your happiness and well-being will ripen when you get that degree, that job, that house, tha... Read more

Tags: Ajahn Chah, buddhism, generosity, Letting go, second noble truth

Author: Trudy Goodman, PhD

This Body

The first foundation of mindfulness is the body, the ground of our existence. The Buddha wanted us to feel “the body in the body, the breath in the breath.” He urged us to get to know the body from within the actual felt experience of being this body,... Read more

Tags: Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Mun, mindfulness, the body, trudy goodman

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