Soul Hack
How Tibetan Chess Helped Me Deal With Disturbing Emotions
The basic chess strategies we can use to diffuse disturbing thoughts.
Matthew Gindin is a journalist, educator and meditation instructor located in Vancouver, BC. He is the Pacific Correspondent for the Canadian Jewish News, writes regularly for the Forward and the Jewish Independent and has been published in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Religion Dispatches, Kveller, Situate Magazine, and elsewhere. He writes on Medium from time to time.
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