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| Jules Shuzen Harris teaches the meditation practice at the heart of Zen Buddhism. | ||
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has been a lot of attention recently on the many practical benefits of
meditation. It reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, and is effective
in working with depression, anxiety, and anger. These are all good
reasons to meditate, but ultimately Buddhists practice zazen and other
meditations to realize what Buddhism calls our true nature, which is
beyond self-identity with its self-imposed limitations. From a Buddhist
perspective, our main problem is attachment to our deluded idea of who
we are, and what we need to do to maintain this delusion.
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