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Putting Your Mind At Rest

Name: Putting Your Mind At Rest
Uploaded: 2022-09-18T20:20:29.000Z
Duration: 22 min 32 s
Channel: Robert Waldinger
Description: This talk takes as its text the famous Zen koan, "Bodhidharma puts the mind at rest." In it I describe the practice of meditation and how it relieves suffering by helping to free us from our usual (mis)perceptions of how our thinking mind works and its domination of our inner life.

by Robert Waldinger

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This talk takes as its text the famous Zen koan, "Bodhidharma puts the mind at rest." In it I describe the practice of meditation and how it relieves suffering by helping to free us from our usual (mis)perceptions of how our thinking mind works and its domination of our inner life.

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Meet your Teacher

Robert Waldinger

Newton, MA

Meet your Teacher

Robert Waldinger

Newton, MA

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