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Practice Note: Vitakka and Vicāra

Gil Fronsdal
By: Gil Fronsdal

In meditation practice, mindfulness works by applying your attention to notice something. That initial application of attention is vitakka. Vicāra is is taking the initial placing of attention a step further and sustaining the attention there.

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