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Spiritual Development

Buddhist teachings encourage people to actively cultivate the more trustworthy happiness that comes with spiritual development.

Happiness associated with virtue, meditation, and wisdom is prized

Although thinking is useful, an untrained mind tends to repeat distressing patterns. In Beyond Distraction, Catherine writes how many people suffer from chronic comparing, endless worrying, seductive fantasizing, or relentless planning.

One can even develop anxiety through countless hours of obsessing about the past or imaginative rehearsals of how to respond to future events.

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