The Meditation Technique That Backfired For Me (And The Simple Fix)
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Zen meditation
· "You've dabbled in the world of Zen... we got together... the retreat"
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Vipassana
· "There's the Vipassana approach there's transcendental meditation there's zen which is very much its own thing"
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Transcendental Meditation
· "There's the Vipassana approach there's transcendental meditation there's zen which is very much its own thing"
3:52
Waking Up
· "So I use the way all the time full disclosure we're both involved with it... it's just I think it's good..."
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Mountain Cloud Zen Center
· "We got together... the retreat... it was 3 to 4 days, something like that"
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