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Practicing the Middle Way: Navigating Between Extremes

With JD Doyle recorded on May 14, 2023.

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The Buddha invites us to travel the Middle Path, between extremes. How do we navigate this path that leads to knowledge, understanding and liberation? We practice with mindfulness and kindness to meet our day to day experiences and our conditioning: societal, familial, cultural, and historical. Inviting in curiosity and diligence, we learn to practice to discern wellbeing, for ourselves and for all beings. 

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