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Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention

The key to becoming fully alive and joyful is to develop our natural capacity for attention and to be fully present here and now. In this informative guidebook to practical Buddhism you discover:

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How to live life with equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion, and joy

How to cut through obsessions with the external world, relationships, harmful emotions, pleasure and power, and self

Tried-and-true methods for cultivating active attention with your body and mind.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 480 pages

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