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When creating the (free<\/strong>) With Insight Guide to Meditation<\/a> for Sounds True<\/a>, I wanted to include a short quote for the front page, to summarize at least one way of approaching the meditative journey. When I came across the following description by my friend Shinzen Young<\/a>, I knew I had found the right one. Nicely said, brother Shinzen:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.\u201d<\/p>\n

Access all of the With Insight Guides here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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When creating the (free) With Insight Guide to Meditation for Sounds True, I wanted to include a short quote for the front page, to summarize at least one way of approaching the meditative journey. When I came across the following description by my friend Shinzen Young, I knew I had found the right one. 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