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“Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a “mystical” state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.
— Nyanaponika Thera
Buddhist monk and author
Nyanaponika, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (1965), p. 24
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