meditation

nationality

American

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novelist

screenwriter

historian

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

cause of death

natural causes

race / ethnicity

White American

American Academy of Arts and Letters

religion

Buddhism

is not about enlightenment, but rather it is to pay attention and to be nothing-but-in-the-present.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment... it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

Peter Matthiessen

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