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Letter: The ups and downs of meditation

Published 10 June 2015

From Dan Raymond

The aim of Buddhist practitioners is to attain enlightenment, a state of egoless non-dual awareness, not emptiness, which is merely a tool to cut through ego, which doesn’t exist. Like the harms, the benefits of mediation are also underestimated in the West.
Oxford, UK

Issue no. 3025 published 13 June 2015

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