When my old flatmate told me about a Vipassana meditation course she'd been on while traveling in New Zealand, I found myself listening properly rather than cynically. She said it had taught her how to stand back from negative situations and people, just observing instead what was happening. She didn't have to say that she was happy; it came off in waves.
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