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Attachment Inquiry and Classical Enlightenment

With George Haas recorded on June 24, 2018.

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Energizing your householder’s meditation practice often requires some immediate benefit be available to you, even if the long goal is enlightenment. Developing a dynamic social network to support your practice is vital to keep on practicing. Finding a meaningful way to be in the world helps create the time, energy and resources necessary to devote to practice.

Examining your conditioning simultaneously through the lenses of a Dharma Map and Western psychology map of Attachment Theory can make your insights immediately applicable to current conditions of your life, while at the same time developing the meditation skills necessary for deep practice. AKA: a win-win.

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