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RESOURCES

Things you can use right now.

A few places to start, and a growing collection of downloads and links to carry the practice off the screen and into ordinary life.

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Downloads are being gathered. Practice sheets, sample chapters, and printable resources will appear here as the book takes shape.

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Use the Whole Buffalo is still taking shape as a book, but the practices are already here for ordinary hard weather. If this language is useful to you, you can join a small early community and receive occasional field notes: new practices, sample material, and first word when the book's ready. No pressure. No performance. Just something steady to return to when the mind starts making the weather worse.

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How to Meet What Hurts Without Wasting the Pain.
Use what helps. Leave what doesn't.
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Mind is the buffalo that bolts, and mind is the buffalo that stands.
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