Joyful Focus: Taming Your Mind's Habits

April 07, 2025 00:21:56
Joyful Focus: Taming Your Mind's Habits
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Joyful Focus: Taming Your Mind's Habits

Apr 07 2025 | 00:21:56

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Show Notes

In this enjoyable podcast, Gen Chodor, Resident Teacher of KMC Canada, explains how to improve our meditative concentration. Discover the four essential steps of meditation: seeking, finding, holding, and remaining. Understand that distraction isn’t the harmless interruption we often assume but rather the primary obstacle to deeper spiritual practice. Learn how mindfulness maintains focus while alertness stands guard against wandering thoughts. Based on the book How to Understand the Mind by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

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