What Are You Focusing on?

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