The Harsh Truth No One Wants To Tell You About Awakening

3 min readJan 18

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To come to the end of suffering, you have to suffer just a little bit more.

Photo by Iswanto Arif on Unsplash

What happens when we try to be mindful 24/7, just as the Buddha explicitly instructs us to do in his most famous discourse on mindfulness?

Let alone half a-month. Should any person maintain these four bases of mindfulness…

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Re-thinking human potential with meditation & Indic philosophy. Mindfulness-integrated traditional art instructor.

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