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B. Alan Wallace is a renowned author born in 1950. His works cover a wide range of fields, including Buddhist philosophy, mind science, and modern psychology. Professor Wallace has a strong academic background in Buddhist studies and mind science, and his writings have been widely translated into multiple languages.

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“I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.”

Meditation Shamatha

Book:The Attention Revolution, Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

Source: The Attention Revolution, Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

“The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.”

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Author:B. Alan Wallace

“Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease. Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.”

Source: The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind