## Shalini B Bahl, PhD

Seeker. Researcher. Mindfulness teacher. Both/and thinker. Part mystic, scientist, healer, creative—all of it one path. Author, Former town councilor, 20+ years Vipassana. Building Sama Life: disrupting default habits for a better world 🪷

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Thank you for your practice and your honesty about where you stand with respect to the suffering of others. It's a complex thing to hold, and most of us were never taught to process it skillfully in mainstream education — so we're learning together, in real time.

What I keep noticing is how easily the tender feelings — guilt, shame, a lon…