A Mindful Balance
What did the Buddha really mean by “mindfulness?” B. Alan Wallace describes how misunderstanding the term can have implications for your practice.
B. Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace is the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. He's the author of multiple books, including The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind from Wisdom Publications.
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A New Paradigm for Science and Religion
Since the time of Galileo, science and religion have increasingly appeared to be at odds, with religion slowly but surely losing the battle, B. Alan Wallace observes. His series presents a paradigm in which science and…
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