Name: From Mindfulness to Heartfulness
Author: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

<p>Open Mind, Open Heart Millions have found mindfulness to be a powerful practice for reducing stress, enhancing attention, and instilling tranquility. But it can offer so much more&mdash;it can transform you, make you more fully awake, alive, and aware of your connection to all beings. In Japanese, the character that best expresses mindfulness, &#24565;, consists of two parts&mdash;the top part, &#20170;, meaning &ldquo;now, &rdquo; and the bottom part, &#24515;, meaning &ldquo;heart.&rdquo; Using stories from his own life as the son of an Irish father and a Japanese mother, a professor in Japan and America, a psychotherapist, a father, and a husband, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu describes eight &ldquo;heartfulness&rdquo; principles that help us realize that the deepest expression of an enlightened mind is found in our relation to others.<br></p>

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