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Podcast: New Books in Buddhist Studies
Episode: Yael Shy, “What Now? Meditation For Your Twenties and Beyond” (Parallax Press, 2017)
Description: In an age which seems to be moving faster and faster, it has become difficult for people, especially young people, to stop and take valuable moments of reflection. Our anxieties can rack our productivity and emotional stability causing us even more trouble than we thought. Even in an time filled with such ease of access to sources of information on self-help and meditation it can be difficult to find a practice that is easy to connect with.
Yael Shy offers meditation as something more than just method and philosophy in her new book What Now? Meditation For...