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Calming Your Brain During Conflict

By Diane Musho Hamilton — 2015

Conflict wreaks havoc on our brains. We are groomed by evolution to protect ourselves whenever we sense a threat. In our modern context, we don’t fight like a badger with a coyote, or run away like a rabbit from a fox. But our basic impulse to protect ourselves is automatic and unconscious.

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Three Means to Peace: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Wisdom

In this teaching from 2004, Joseph Goldstein explains how three principles of meditation can be applied to the world’s conflicts.

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Joseph Goldstein
2018
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Here, Now, Aware: The Power of Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the key to the present moment. Without it we cannot see the world clearly, and we simply stay lost in the wanderings of our minds.

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Joseph Goldstein
2007
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

The simple, although not always easy, practices of vipassana are all rooted in one important discourse of the Buddha: the Satipatthana Sutta. Satipatthana is often translated as “foundation of mindfulness,” but another, and perhaps more helpful, translation is “way of establishing mindfulness.

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Joseph Goldstein
2020
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