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COLIN BEAVAN, PhD

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Forgive me if I sound too pious

December 17, 2007 by Colin Beavan

I have a friend, a Zen teacher, who lost his daughter a decade or so ago. Years passed, and he asked his own teacher, “I have been meditating for many years, but underneath, I still feel an abiding sadness. Am I doing something wrong?” His teacher told him, “What you feel is Universal Sadness.” When […]

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