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        "description": "This is a transcription of lectures given by Suzuki Shunryū, a Buddhist monk who founded the first Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States, containing discussion about Zen meditation and practice.",
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        "description": "A history of monastic attempts at finding calm and peace in the midst of a profane world.  There are far fewer daily distractions now than pre-Cataclysm but there's still some useful techniques you could gain here.",
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        "description": "A translation of a letter written by Thich Nhat Hanh to colleagues in Viet Nam, this book focuses on mindfulness and breathwork.",
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    "//": "Advanced meditation is controversial but I have to make the distinction somewhere.",
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        "description": "Written by a neuroscientist and meditator pratitioner, this book offers a ten-step meditation program that combines science with traditional meditation techniques.",
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          "str": "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book",
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        "description": "This book argues that meditation is not an eternal progression but can be mastered just like any other skill, and it will tell you how to do it.",
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          "str": "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen",
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        "description": "A continuation of the lessons expounded on in \"Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind\", this book contains a myriad of parables and koans to help the student grasp the nature of meditation.",
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    "description": "This notebook is mostly a series of fanciful speculations about something the author alternately calls \"Matrix Mechanics,\", \"Dimensional Metaphysics,\" or \"Netherium Mathematics,\" sometimes using more than one in the same sentence.  Most of it is incoherent, but there is some experimental data about \"Conscious redirection of nether energy\" that catches your eye.",
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    "description": "A formal report on a process to reduce the unpredictable effects of long-term psionic use.  It describes a special meditation technique, performed with the aid of a matrix crystal, though it does warn that the process: \"puts extreme stress on the focus object.  Further refinement is required.\"",
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    "description": "A formal report with a mostly-blank cover page, stamped with the Project PHAVIAN logo at the top and a red \"VERDANT HAND - EYES ONLY\" centered underneath.  Contrary to your initial assumption, it is not a martial arts training manual.  Instead, it describes a series of meditations and visualization exercises designed to \"increase the subject's unarmed combat prowess fivefold\".  There are several charts showing the results of a VERDANT HAND combatant against training opponents armed with weapons or firearms at various engagement distances.  It's clearly still not as good as just having a rifle, but the data look pretty promising if you can get these exercises down.",
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