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To Touch Enlightenment with the Body

By Reginald Ray — 2003

Like many Westerners, I always assumed that meditation was a “spiritual” phenomenon, which I took to mean that it somehow had to do with realms beyond the physical.

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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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