"Suffering = Pain x Resistance"
"Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim"
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Source: Interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.
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