My meditation teacher says to focus on the present but every time I sit still I think about all the people who lived and died before me and I feel this crushing weight of impermanence that makes breathing hard.
More people experience this than they realize.
Deepening awareness can initially amplify rather than dissolve the mind's tendency to create suffering through identification with temporal phenomena.
“Where Are You with Philosophy of history?”
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