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What I'd like to speak of very directly are a number of levels of

fruits, of benefits that can come from undertaking spiritual practice, and it's not the benefits

themselves, but really a sense of our relationship to the circumstances of our life and the things

that are happening to us that make those things alive for us. The first kind of happiness which

can come through meditation practice spoken of by the Buddha is simply the happiness of living more

in the present. Now admittedly there's also a certain amount more suffering from living in the

present because to live in the present one opens to the vicissitudes of life, all of its things,

but there's a kind of happiness that we can discover as we allow ourselves a certain simplicity

of mind, what's called beginner's mind or mindfulness, to just be with things as they are in the

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