backlog of content and nits

_content/articles/longitudinal-effects-of-2-year_smith-brooke-m-et-al.md

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+---
+title: "Longitudinal Effects of a 2-Year Meditation and Buddhism Program on Well-Being, Quality of Life, and Valued Living"
+authors:
+  - "Brooke M. Smith"
+  - "Clarissa W. Ong"
+  - "Tyson S. Barrett"
+  - "Ellen J. Bluett"
+  - "Timothy A. Slocum and others"
+external_url: "https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2791&context=psych_facpub"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-019-01165-z"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PO0I6B88q_GnNMcCxZvLB0yR3V2tom3k/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: sangha
+tags:
+  - meditation
+  - daily-life
+  - west
+  - function
+year: 2019
+month: oct
+journal: "Mindfulness"
+volume: 10
+number: 10
+pages: "2095--2109"
+publisher: "Springer Science+Business Media"
+openalexid: W2900687086
+---
+
+> Participation in the program predicted increases in subjective well-being and mindfulness over time compared to the control group.
+> Regardless of condition, frequency of meditation predicted lower psychological inflexibility and higher mindfulness, well-being, and progress toward values.
+> Length of meditation session predicted a greater ability to observe experience, and prior meditation experience predicted greater nonreactivity to experience.

_content/articles/mindfulness-practice-leads-to-increases_holzel-britta-k-et-al.md

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+---
+title: "Mindfulness Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density"
+authors:
+  - "Britta K. Hölzel"
+  - "James Carmody"
+  - "Mark Vangel"
+  - "Christina Congleton"
+  - "Sita M. Yerramsetti and others"
+external_url: "https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3004979?pdf=render"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.08.006"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d2galqil2Cyhzf1EcG0E9WBcy83PqvLs/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: meditation
+tags:
+  - neuroscience
+  - health
+year: 2011
+month: jan
+journal: "Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging"
+volume: 191
+number: 1
+pages: "36--43"
+publisher: "Elsevier BV"
+openalexid: W2111936080
+---
+
+> Changes in gray matter concentration were investigated using voxel-based morphometry, and compared with a waiting list control group of 17 individuals.
+> Analyses in a priori regions of interest confirmed increases in gray matter concentration within the left hippocampus.
+> Whole brain analyses identified increases in the posterior cingulate cortex, the temporo-parietal junction, and the cerebellum in the MBSR group compared with the controls.
+> The results suggest that participation in MBSR is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking.
+

_content/av/matters-of-time_99pi.md

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ authors:
   - "99 Percent Invisible"
 subcat: podcast
 external_url: "https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/matters-of-time/"
-course: time # perhaps archive, once better versions of these stories are found
+tags:
+  - time
 year: 2021
 month: may
 series: 99pi

_content/booklets/words-matter_mhcc.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ editor: "Corinne Henderson"
 external_url: "https://mhcc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Recovery-Oriented-Language-Guide-3rd-edition.pdf"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s9iE34zs2f1HLIKadRfWA9HPvq-T5D02/view?usp=drivesdk"
-course: communication
+course: speech
 tags:
   - grief
   - psychology

_content/canon/dn26.md

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ slug: "dn26"
 external_url: "https://suttacentral.net/dn26/en/sujato"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pEiJG4JE-eLae_UNNb8dwien-gIGHDqL/view?usp=drivesdk"
-course: social
+course: cosmology
 tags:
-  - cosmology
+  - social
   - problems
   - time
   - myth

_content/canon/mn36.md

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+---
+title: "MN 36 Mahāsaccaka Sutta: The Longer Discourse With Saccaka"
+translator: bodhi
+slug: "mn036"
+external_url: "https://suttacentral.net/mn36/en/bodhi"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/16fGf9X163yC2o4_Wpzn-1hcmuqXbKkiI/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: pali-canon
+tags:
+  - setting
+  - feeling
+  - mn
+# buddha tag covered by Nyanamoli's *Life*
+year: 2009
+pages: 12
+parallels:
+  - da20
+  - da21
+  - da22
+  - divy27
+  - ea31.8
+  - lal16
+  - lal17a
+  - mn85
+  - mn100
+  - san-lo-mvu47
+  - san-mu-kd17
+  - sf5
+  - sf64
+  - sf287
+  - sht-sutta28
+  - sht-sutta40
+  - t757
+# Partial parallels from SC
+#  - lal17
+#  - lal18
+#  - lal22
+#  - ma101
+#  - mn4
+#  - mn20
+#  - mn26
+---
+
+> Why am I afraid of that pleasure that has nothing to do with sensual pleasures and unwholesome states?
+
+The Buddha responds to a follower of another religion with a long account of the various austerities he practiced before awakening, detailing the astonishing lengths he took to learn the truth of the body and feelings.

_content/canon/mn4.md

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+---
+title: "MN 4 Bhayabherava Sutta: Fear and Dread"
+translator: bodhi
+slug: "mn004"
+external_url: "https://suttacentral.net/mn4/en/bodhi"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W02vZHUmEQAyHAxC9Q30dWgB2MnCVc0S/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: samadhi
+status: featured
+tags:
+  - path
+  - hindrances
+  - renunciation
+  - nature
+  - mn
+# buddha tag covered by Nyanamoli's *Life*
+year: 2009
+pages: 6
+parallels:
+  - ea31.1
+  - sht-sutta3
+# Partial parallels from SC
+#  - mn26
+#  - mn36
+#  - mn100
+#  - mnd14
+---
+
+> Remote jungle-thicket resting places in the forest are hard to endure, seclusion is hard to practise, and it is hard to enjoy solitude.
+
+The Buddha explains the difficulties of living in the wilderness, and how they are overcome by purity of conduct and meditation.
+He recounts some of the fears and obstacles he faced during his own practice and how he overcame them all.

_content/canon/mn85.md

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ hidden_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ee3D2ybK1tPl8JUhEo8Wf0hFijqlje-a/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: with-brahmins
 tags:
-  - buddha
   - path
   - pleasure
   - mn

_content/essays/praise-of-shadows_tanizaki.md

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+---
+title: "In Praise of Shadows"
+authors:
+  - "Junichiro Tanizaki"
+translator: "Thomas J. Harper"
+external_url: "https://neeta.works/on-graphic-design/readings/Tanizaki-In_Praise_of_Shadows.pdf"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtdVH8Ry76BQohsHC-rg6ecY4QsZci5s/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: japan
+tags:
+  - present
+  - things
+  - design
+  - architecture
+  - literature
+  - aesthetics
+year: 1933
+pages: 20
+---
+
+> This was the genius of our ancestors, that by cutting off the light from this empty space they imparted to the world of shadows that formed there a quality of mystery and depth superior to that of any wall painting or ornament.
+
+A meditation on what was lost when Japan rapidly modernized and traded in its traditional aesthetics for Western appliances.

_content/papers/beyond-reasonable-doubt_vincent-eltschinger.md

@@ -7,12 +7,14 @@ drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GrO0-Iiz75FIchradGLURiEpuCr7Ze2I/view?usp=sharing"
 course: epistemology
 tags:
-  - scepticism
-  - stoicism 
+  - stoicism
+# scepticism and dialogue tags covered by the book
 year: 2020
 from_book: buddhism-and-scepticism_hanner
 chapter: 3
 pages: "37--53" 
 ---
 
-This paper discusses the basic epistemological views of the 6th-century Buddhist philosopher Dharmakīrti. The author shows how Dharmakīrti differs from Mādhyamika philosophers and shares interesting aspects with the Stoics. The paper also covers Dharmakīrti's views on perception, inference, and scriptual authority as means of valid knowledge.
+The 6th-century Buddhist philosopher Dharmakīrti differs from Mādhyamika philosophers but shares some interesting aspects with the Stoics.
+
+The paper also covers Dharmakīrti's views on perception, inference, and scriptual authority as means of valid knowledge.

_content/booklets/graphic-standards-manual_nycta.md → _content/reference/graphic-standards-manual_nycta.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags:
 year: 1970
 olid: OL36639318M
 address: "New York"
-pages: 10 # based on estimated time spent
+pages: 177
 ---
 
 > It is vital that all signs be read easily and understood quickly.

_content/reference/world-factbook_cia.md

@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ title: "The World Factbook"
 authors:
   - "The CIA"
 external_url: "https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/world/"
-course: world
-tags:
-  - places
+course: wider
 year: 1994
 month: oct
 olid: OL28995644M

_data/drive_folders.json

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+ "dance": {
+  "private": "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gIdmt-KUcDDhMN5N8-z5jh9OZoUKt_ir",
+  "public": null
+ },
  "death": {
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+ "race": {
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+  "public": null
+ },
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_layouts/content.html

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    {% if pieces.size > 0 %}<p class="pieces_desc">
-     Excerpts from this book also in the library: <ul>{% for c in pieces %}
+     Part{% if pieces.size > 1 %}s{% endif %} of this book {% if pieces.size > 1 %}are{% else %}is{% endif %} also in the library as: <ul>{% for c in pieces %}
         <li>{% include simple_content.html content=c %}</li>
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_tags/communication.md

@@ -12,11 +12,10 @@ illustration_caption: >-
   Stakeholders met around a simple, lace-covered table in Nueva Loja
   to discuss the needs of Sucumbíos' children with representatives of
   <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amparo_Pe%C3%B1aherrera_at_a_meeting_in_Ecuador_in_2018.jpg">UNICEF Ecuador in 2018</a>.
-  Most of the table is taken up by a large outline of the province, note paper, and various writing implements.
+  On the table is a large outline of the province along with note paper and various writing implements.
   A woman at the table indicates that she is thoughtfully listening to the woman speaking
-  by making eye contact and by placing her left hand on her (own) face, near her lips.
-  Humans use a large variety of "media" (from phones to body language) to share their knowledge, thoughts, and feelings with each other
-  and to coordinate their activities.
+  by making eye contact and placing her left hand near her lips.
+  Humans use a large variety of "media" (from cell phones to body language) to coordinate their activities and share their knowledge with each other.
 image: https://illeakyw.sirv.com/Images/banners/railway_crossing_Kamakura_Japan.jpg
 image_width: 2560
 image_height: 1707

_tags/cosmology.md

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 illustration_center_x: 55%
 illustration_center_y: 70%
 illustration_caption: >-
-  The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavacakra">Bhavacakra</a></i> depicts how Yama (the god of death, aka "Māra")
+  The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavacakra">Bhavacakra</a></i> depicts how Yama (the god of death)
   holds all beings (from heaven to hell) within the "round" of rebirth.
   Only the Buddhas stand outside Saṃsāra pointing the way to Nibbāna, here represented by the moon.
 image: https://illeakyw.sirv.com/Images/banners/mathieu-perrier.jpg