By Frank Ostaseski — 2019
Meditation teacher Frank Ostaseski reflects on the relationship between recovery and mindfulness following a stroke.
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CLEAR ALL
No matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.
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Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives.
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