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Other places people find pleasant sensations include the third eye, the top of the head, the shoulders—actually, you name a body part, and I’ve had some student find a pleasant sensation there that they were able to focus on long enough for the first jhāna to arise. It does not matter where the pleasant sensation manifests; what matters is that there is a pleasant sensation and you’re able to put your attention on it and—now here comes the really hard part—do nothing else.
Right Concentration
Leigh Brasington
For however much that the Vangavaye-ve called to Kip to come home, it was nevertheless the case that Cliopher Mdang was not yet ready to listen.
The Hands of the Emperor
Victoria Goddard
Of course, personalized art might never catch on, because people will continue to prefer common hits that everybody likes. How can you dance or sing together to a song nobody besides you knows? But algorithms could prove even more adept at producing global hits than personalized rarities. By using massive biometric databases garnered from millions of people, the algorithm could know which biochemical buttons to press in order to produce a global hit that would get everybody swinging like crazy on the dance floors.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
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