Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Focus Your Mind

“An invaluable guide for all those journeying on the path to greater freedom.”-Joseph Goldstein

The mind can be a potent tool, used to guide extraordinary achievements, inspire good works, and incline your spiritual path toward peace and awakening. But the mind can also produce thoughts that lead to suffering.

Most of us have experienced thoughts running rampant and seeming to oppress or control our lives. Even the Buddha tells us that before his enlightenment, he sometimes found his mind pre...