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For me, the relationship between thought and action isn't always so neat. I've spent a lot of time, you mentioned woo-woo type, right? Like I've spent a lot of time around Western woo-woo new agey types. Boy, they love to talk about Buddhism and meditation and how transformative it is. But I have seen time and again, how easily these same people manage to take on all this wisdom and wear it like an ornament only to end up even more self-centered. So I guess I'm asking, if even if people chasing wisdom fall in or fall back into these ego traps, what does it really take to move from theory to practice or from belief to behavior? Because the theory part is easy, the practice part I find to be much harder. I'm not so sure the theory part is all that easy.
has this kind of hippie, new-agey feeling to it, but I really commend Dan Harris' book
Modern new-agey people decided that the wise Mayans stopped making calendars because they
Now this sounds really new agey, but the controlled trials done with lavender as a sleep aid actually really back up its benefits.