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The Eight Point Program is a program which was developed by Eknath Easwaran of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. Life as a Leaf: Growing Integrity in Children presents a modified secular application of two of the points from the program. It is neither associated with nor published by the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and does not represent the Eight Point Program. To learn more about the Eight Point Program, contact the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, P.O. Box 256, Tomales, CA 94971, 800-475-2369, or visit http://easwaran.org for more information.

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