As our sensory-material world draws us into its web, being distanced from its sensations and objects feels unsatisfactory. This is because we have identified sensations and activities as the source of our pleasures. In meditation there is an effort to 'be' rather than 'do': a steady dis-identification from the objects of consciousness, including the self, …
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Dear God
Our school prayer, recited together every morning before the beginning of classes and often fondly remembered by me and my schoolmates now, went like this: Dear God, Thank you for everything; Bless me and help me to be good, And to do my studies well. I stopped believing in god when I was very small. …
