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Dipa Ma â Jack Kornfield Mindfulness is loving awareness; mindfulness is mettÄ.
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Rick Hanson â HEAL + Seven Factors Have a beneficial experience â notice something wholesome landing in the mind. Enrich it â let it grow fuller, warmer, more vivid. Absorb it â receive it; let it sink in. Link it (optional) â hold it alongside an old pattern without getting lost. Seven Factors of Installation:
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Duration: stay with the good for a few breaths.
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Intensity: let the feeling become a little stronger.
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Multimodality: feel it in body, heart, and mind together.
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Novelty: notice whatâs fresh or surprising about it.
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Personal relevance: remember why this moment matters to you.
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Salience: highlight what stands out as meaningful.
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Reward: sense whatâs nourishing or pleasant about it.
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Vedic origins BrahmÄâs four faces â divine qualities â preâBuddhist cosmology.
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Buddhaâs radical reinterpretation Transforms divine attributes into human capacities; democratizes the âdivine.â
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Gift language / Dana as ground The Buddha âgiftedâ a new understanding; generosity as the essence of the Dhamma.
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The process of us BrahmavihÄras as natural expressions of an unobstructed heart.