(Shapiro 1994). Meditation instruction provided by a qualified teacher of meditation
may well yield more favorable or at least more genuine results than that provided by
a laboratory researcher who, in true reductionist fashion, has isolated the bare bones
technique in order to measure, confirm, refute, or predict outcomes.
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