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This video is the second chapter of 15, it follows the moderator introduction.This chapter features Wendell Berry on “Deconstructing the Idea of Pleasure.” The remaining chapters may be watched here. Remaining chapters include : 03. Scaling Down Our Carbon Foot-Print 04. Wendell Berry Rereading Preamble 05. Local Adaptation 06. Eric Schlosser: Revival of Food Culture 07. Lack of Focus on Human Rights 08. Carlo Petrini: Social Injustice 09. Rethinking the Definition of Slow Food 10....

For much more about meditation, health, and the connection between them, see the Health and Healing section of Mindful.org. You’ll find basics about mindfulness practice here.

If you’re eager to learn more about mindfulness’s growing influence across all facets of society, or are just beginning to discover the transformative power of mindfulness, you won’t want to miss seeing these videos. To register (free) to see the various conference sessions, please visit live.soundstrue.com. For more information about Creating a Mindful Society, read Maintain the momentum, which features essential articles by the conference speakers, as well as articles on the themes discussed at the gathering....

This practice is described as one that ” moves ‘reading’ beyond the search for knowledge to an attentive and interactive appreciation for what rests beneath the text and in our own souls. Though usually used in working with sacred texts, lectio easily adapts itself to a wide variety of meditative approaches to texts–from poems, novels, or cultural critiques to the soul-chilling daily headlines of the local newspaper. This is a method of ‘reading’ that also teaches us how to listen, with the whole self, to what a word or phrase speaks directly to or intimates about our lived experience....

A dear mindfulness colleague called me an hour before that moment in the grocery store, with urgency in her tone. “Have you gone shopping? You have to go shopping, right now, I’m not kidding. We are all about to go on lockdown, go get food right now!” My colleague is a doctor, her husband is a doctor, I thought they would be the first ones to laugh this whole thing off as some kind of social media mind-madness....