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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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