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Are using the word practice here in a special way. It does not mean a rehearsal or a perfecting of some skill so that we can put it to use at some other time. In the meditative context, practice means being in the present on purpose. The means and the end of meditation are really the same. We are not trying to get somewhere else, only working

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Are using the word practice here in a special way. It does not mean a rehearsal or a perfecting of some skill so that we can put it to use at some other time. In the meditative context, practice means being in the present on purpose. The means and the end of meditation are really the same. We are not trying to get somewhere else, only working

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