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If something can be remedied, why be unhappy about it? And if there is no remedy for it, there is still no point in being unhappy.
Gen Lamchen
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
Modern Buddhism
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