What Are You Focusing on?

August 25, 2026 • 00:16:42
What Are You Focusing on?
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What Are You Focusing on?

Aug 25 2026 | 00:16:42

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Show Notes

Gen Lamchen explains why thinking harder about a problem so often makes it worse. She shows how attention and mindfulness — the very mental habits that trap us in worry — can be turned around, then offers Shantideva’s simple framework for containing runaway thoughts in just five minutes a day.

Further reading in the following books: How to Solve Our Human Problems Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life

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