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Lia Becker, Katharina Pühl, Atlanta Ina Beyer: Bite back! (deutsch language, edition assemblage)

Queere und trans Stimmen fehlen in aktuellen linken Diskussionen über Klasse und Identität, in Diskussionen …

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manche texte waren theoretisch anspruchsvoll, deswegen habe ich lange gebraucht. ich finde die zusammenstellung wirklich geglückt, es findet sich eine große bandbreite an stil und perspektiven. habe viel neu denken gelernt.

Culadasa (John Charles Yates): The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science (2015) No rating

Providing step-by-step guidance for every stage of the meditation path, this uniquely comprehensive guide for …

this is a very scientific approach to meditation and an attempt to make it quantifiable and like a video game you can play through, following the 10 stages to shamatha.

i like it better when meditation is approached more like a theory that can never be fully proven or quantified because many parts are highly subjective.

still, there are some pieces of advice that helped me in my practice (make it more "efficient" in the jargon of the book) and i am only stopping it because i have listened up to the "stage" i am at, and for this advice i will continue listening once i have "mastered" that "stage".