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Academics Embrace Meditation

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Harvard Magazine, January-February 2012, carries an article describing how some leading academics are embracing retreats conducive to the practice of meditation.

MIT Dalai Lama Center for Ethics fellow Sousan Abadian, a regular retreat participant, says: "Retreats allow us to access and strengthen subtle capacities and to hear ourselves and others on a different level."

Christopher Germer, clinical instructor in psychology in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and practicing Buddhist says: "Mindfulness has become probably the dominant paradigm of psychotherapy".

Cambridge psychotherapists Susan and Bill Morgan are attendees at a silent meditation retreat. Susan says: "The encouragement is to unplug from this world... to learn how to straddle that line between participant and observer all the time... and learn how to meet all of experience with a certain amount of equanimity."

Abiding Our Own Minds, Harvard Magazine January-February 2012

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