I realized, just this morning, while writing a long letter to a friend of mine who’s currently in prison, that my having been required to read this book in high school, along with its follow up The Te of Piglet, was not only wonderfully unusual for a standard suburban public school to assign, but may very well have planted the first seeds, to sprout much later, on the Buddhist path I now find myself on. The characters take on a whole new, much deeper, dimension. While I enjoyed the cartoon growing up, and like reading the books to young ones, I can’t say I’ve had a special interest in the characters or have been overly intrigued by the content. I’ve never been a big Winnie the Pooh fan myself. There’s also a follow up book that the author came out with, years later, called The Te of Piglet. I would recommend reading this book, if you haven’t done so. When he was done reading it out loud I said to him, “Oh, that would be a nice thing to post on our facebook page.” So I posted it. I had had this book out on our coffee table when my husband picked it up last week and just happened to open up to the section with the above dialog. It has me wondering: What is it about this post from the Tao of Pooh that has struck people so strongly? It has been incredibly fascinating watching these numbers soar ever upwards over the last few days. Holy Toledo! I’ve never claimed to understand the magical workings of social media but this one really boggles my mind. This post has also gained us 3,754 more page likes. It’s been shared 24,387 times, has 2,189 comments, and over 42,000 have “liked’ or “loved” it. Mindfulness is learning to non-judgementally and. As of right now this post has reached 2,704,978 people. has been shown to increase feelings of inner peace (Shapiro, 1992 Lee et al., 2013 Liu et al., 2015). What I thought was a nice, simple offering on our page turned out to awaken a LOT of people from all parts of the globe.

“Yes, but it’s always good to hear that somebody else thinks so, too,” he replied. “But you could be doing something Important,” I said. “Say, Pooh, why aren’t you busy?” I said. On April 14th I posted this on our sangha’s facebook page: Well, over the last week things have changed very rapidly with our (and my) first experience with a viral post. So our page, while active with posts, has been small potatoes in the land of facebook, with very little activity by way of engagement of visitors. We hardly ever receive comments or post “likes,” and it would be super rare that someone “share” one of our posts. Lately our posts reach about 100-200 people on average (so facebook tells me). I post on it pretty much everyday – things regarding our sangha or mindfulness center, quotes I stumble upon, recommended books, mindfulness articles, nice pictures, and the like. In those four years we’ve accumulated around 360 page likes. Ramesh Manocha, 'Intervention Insights: meditation, mindfulness and. For four years now I’ve been operating our sangha’s facebook page, Be Here Now Community. It has to do with what I call the “mystery box” that is social media and the internet. Well, something I think is strange, anyhow.

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