Be mindful! When you’re on a journey to learn meditation, make sure you’re looking for authentic, traditional meditation. For instance, Buddhist meditation (2,600 years old) – which can be taught for those living in the modern world not wanting to be monks.

Much of what is taught today as “mindfulness meditation” is designed “So you become mindful, to become more productive, to produce technologies of mass distraction, which is quite an irony in many ways. A sad irony actually.”

Traditional meditation aids enables one to look within to be aware of our thoughts, words, and actions in order to determine if our habitual ways of thinking, speaking, and acting are supporting what’s best for ourselves, others, AND our planet…

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