backlog of content and nits

Author: khemarato

_content/articles/longitudinal-effects-of-2-year_smith-brooke-m-et-al.md

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+---
+title: "Longitudinal Effects of a 2-Year Meditation and Buddhism Program on Well-Being, Quality of Life, and Valued Living"
+authors:
+  - "Brooke M. Smith"
+  - "Clarissa W. Ong"
+  - "Tyson S. Barrett"
+  - "Ellen J. Bluett"
+  - "Timothy A. Slocum and others"
+external_url: "https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2791&context=psych_facpub"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-019-01165-z"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PO0I6B88q_GnNMcCxZvLB0yR3V2tom3k/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: sangha
+tags:
+  - meditation
+  - daily-life
+  - west
+  - function
+year: 2019
+month: oct
+journal: "Mindfulness"
+volume: 10
+number: 10
+pages: "2095--2109"
+publisher: "Springer Science+Business Media"
+openalexid: W2900687086
+---
+
+> Participation in the program predicted increases in subjective well-being and mindfulness over time compared to the control group.
+> Regardless of condition, frequency of meditation predicted lower psychological inflexibility and higher mindfulness, well-being, and progress toward values.
+> Length of meditation session predicted a greater ability to observe experience, and prior meditation experience predicted greater nonreactivity to experience.

_content/articles/mindfulness-practice-leads-to-increases_holzel-britta-k-et-al.md

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+---
+title: "Mindfulness Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density"
+authors:
+  - "Britta K. Hölzel"
+  - "James Carmody"
+  - "Mark Vangel"
+  - "Christina Congleton"
+  - "Sita M. Yerramsetti and others"
+external_url: "https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3004979?pdf=render"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.08.006"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d2galqil2Cyhzf1EcG0E9WBcy83PqvLs/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: meditation
+tags:
+  - neuroscience
+  - health
+year: 2011
+month: jan
+journal: "Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging"
+volume: 191
+number: 1
+pages: "36--43"
+publisher: "Elsevier BV"
+openalexid: W2111936080
+---
+
+> Changes in gray matter concentration were investigated using voxel-based morphometry, and compared with a waiting list control group of 17 individuals.
+> Analyses in a priori regions of interest confirmed increases in gray matter concentration within the left hippocampus.
+> Whole brain analyses identified increases in the posterior cingulate cortex, the temporo-parietal junction, and the cerebellum in the MBSR group compared with the controls.
+> The results suggest that participation in MBSR is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking.
+

_content/av/matters-of-time_99pi.md

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   - "99 Percent Invisible"
 subcat: podcast
 external_url: "https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/matters-of-time/"
-course: time # perhaps archive, once better versions of these stories are found
+tags:
+  - time
 year: 2021
 month: may
 series: 99pi

_content/booklets/words-matter_mhcc.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ editor: "Corinne Henderson"
 external_url: "https://mhcc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Recovery-Oriented-Language-Guide-3rd-edition.pdf"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s9iE34zs2f1HLIKadRfWA9HPvq-T5D02/view?usp=drivesdk"
-course: communication
+course: speech
 tags:
   - grief
   - psychology

_content/canon/dn26.md

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ slug: "dn26"
 external_url: "https://suttacentral.net/dn26/en/sujato"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pEiJG4JE-eLae_UNNb8dwien-gIGHDqL/view?usp=drivesdk"
-course: social
+course: cosmology
 tags:
-  - cosmology
+  - social
   - problems
   - time
   - myth

_content/canon/mn36.md

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+---
+title: "MN 36 Mahāsaccaka Sutta: The Longer Discourse With Saccaka"
+translator: bodhi
+slug: "mn036"
+external_url: "https://suttacentral.net/mn36/en/bodhi"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/16fGf9X163yC2o4_Wpzn-1hcmuqXbKkiI/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: pali-canon
+tags:
+  - setting
+  - feeling
+  - mn
+# buddha tag covered by Nyanamoli's *Life*
+year: 2009
+pages: 12
+parallels:
+  - da20
+  - da21
+  - da22
+  - divy27
+  - ea31.8
+  - lal16
+  - lal17a
+  - mn85
+  - mn100
+  - san-lo-mvu47
+  - san-mu-kd17
+  - sf5
+  - sf64
+  - sf287
+  - sht-sutta28
+  - sht-sutta40
+  - t757
+# Partial parallels from SC
+#  - lal17
+#  - lal18
+#  - lal22
+#  - ma101
+#  - mn4
+#  - mn20
+#  - mn26
+---
+
+> Why am I afraid of that pleasure that has nothing to do with sensual pleasures and unwholesome states?
+
+The Buddha responds to a follower of another religion with a long account of the various austerities he practiced before awakening, detailing the astonishing lengths he took to learn the truth of the body and feelings.

_content/canon/mn4.md

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+---
+title: "MN 4 Bhayabherava Sutta: Fear and Dread"
+translator: bodhi
+slug: "mn004"
+external_url: "https://suttacentral.net/mn4/en/bodhi"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W02vZHUmEQAyHAxC9Q30dWgB2MnCVc0S/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: samadhi
+status: featured
+tags:
+  - path
+  - hindrances
+  - renunciation
+  - nature
+  - mn
+# buddha tag covered by Nyanamoli's *Life*
+year: 2009
+pages: 6
+parallels:
+  - ea31.1
+  - sht-sutta3
+# Partial parallels from SC
+#  - mn26
+#  - mn36
+#  - mn100
+#  - mnd14
+---
+
+> Remote jungle-thicket resting places in the forest are hard to endure, seclusion is hard to practise, and it is hard to enjoy solitude.
+
+The Buddha explains the difficulties of living in the wilderness, and how they are overcome by purity of conduct and meditation.
+He recounts some of the fears and obstacles he faced during his own practice and how he overcame them all.

_content/canon/mn85.md

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   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ee3D2ybK1tPl8JUhEo8Wf0hFijqlje-a/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: with-brahmins
 tags:
-  - buddha
   - path
   - pleasure
   - mn

_content/essays/praise-of-shadows_tanizaki.md

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+---
+title: "In Praise of Shadows"
+authors:
+  - "Junichiro Tanizaki"
+translator: "Thomas J. Harper"
+external_url: "https://neeta.works/on-graphic-design/readings/Tanizaki-In_Praise_of_Shadows.pdf"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtdVH8Ry76BQohsHC-rg6ecY4QsZci5s/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: japan
+tags:
+  - present
+  - things
+  - design
+  - architecture
+  - literature
+  - aesthetics
+year: 1933
+pages: 20
+---
+
+> This was the genius of our ancestors, that by cutting off the light from this empty space they imparted to the world of shadows that formed there a quality of mystery and depth superior to that of any wall painting or ornament.
+
+A meditation on what was lost when Japan rapidly modernized and traded in its traditional aesthetics for Western appliances.

_content/papers/beyond-reasonable-doubt_vincent-eltschinger.md

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   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GrO0-Iiz75FIchradGLURiEpuCr7Ze2I/view?usp=sharing"
 course: epistemology
 tags:
-  - scepticism
-  - stoicism 
+  - stoicism
+# scepticism and dialogue tags covered by the book
 year: 2020
 from_book: buddhism-and-scepticism_hanner
 chapter: 3
 pages: "37--53" 
 ---
 
-This paper discusses the basic epistemological views of the 6th-century Buddhist philosopher Dharmakīrti. The author shows how Dharmakīrti differs from Mādhyamika philosophers and shares interesting aspects with the Stoics. The paper also covers Dharmakīrti's views on perception, inference, and scriptual authority as means of valid knowledge.
+The 6th-century Buddhist philosopher Dharmakīrti differs from Mādhyamika philosophers but shares some interesting aspects with the Stoics.
+
+The paper also covers Dharmakīrti's views on perception, inference, and scriptual authority as means of valid knowledge.