"If you can't regulate your attention, you cannot regulate who you are or who you are becoming," she says. "The thoughts that we have can be a kind of consuming over and over again,. We don't necessarily think about that way, but that's how it feels to me." In Buddhist ethics there is an idea called guard the sense doors where people give thought to what moves into their eyes, ears, tasting, smelling; they're paying attention to that.

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