If you want to avoid stress and strain, you will have to train your mind to view everything you encounter — persons, objects, events, and experiences — realistically, as transient phenomena, dependently arisen through conditions. You should reflect upon them in terms of the three characteristics — as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and without a self. Doing so will help to reduce the investment of self-concern in these phenomena, and thereby will reduce the craving and attachment for them. You should also avoid anger, anxiety, and pride — the thoughts of "me" and "mine" — since such emotions are productive of stress and strain. When you adopt this attitude to life, you will discover greater detachment, deeper calm, more durable peace of heart even amidst the same situations that previously produced nothing but stress and worry. The key to managing stress is through the disciplining and mastery of the mind.
~Robert Bogoda
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