Changing Perceptions of Buddhist Meditation in the West
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Jul 10, 2019
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Changing Perceptions Buddhist Meditation in the West
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I found myself with no money, no friends and a large dose of homesickness, and ended up staying in a Buddhist monastery in Bangkok for six weeks. I lived with the monks, meditating for eight hours a day. And, to my surprise, this turned out to be the best thing that had ever happened to me…..in the monastery, with no other option but to sit and at least try to meditate, I slowly found that I could sit for longer and longer, sometimes more than an hour.
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Shaw, S. (2019). Changing Perceptions of Buddhist Meditation in the West. The Journal of International Association of Buddhist Universities (JIABU), 2(1), 1–27. Retrieved from https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/Jiabu/article/view/204834
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