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How can we deal with everyday distractions?

Length: 3 min.

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa addresses the challenge of dealing with everyday distractions. Surely, we live in an age of incredible growth and distractions. But, His Holiness replies, do external things really distract us, or is it the mind's latent tendency toward attachment?

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