The Attention Revolution

unsullied by the obscurations of

mental turmoil is astonishing. Contemplatives are able to do this because they tap into and sustain an inner source of serenity,

Psychologists have found that the time generally needed to acquire expertise in a variety of high-level skills is five to ten thousand hours of training in a discipline of eight hours each day for fifty weeks in the year. This is roughly the degree of commitment required to progress along the entire path to the achievement of shamatha. Between formal meditation sessions,