“In the Buddhist scriptures one of the qualities attributed to Right Mindfulness is called “‘non-superficiality,” and this is, of course, just a negative way of expressing our positive term “thoroughness.””

— Nyanaponika Thera

Source: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (1965), p. 31

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German Buddhist monk 1901–1994

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