What Grade Are You In, In Life?

A soul check-up for the busy generation

Have you ever felt like you were running a race without knowing where the finish line is? Between deadlines, romantic drama, and the pressure of other people's stories online, your mind spins like a laptop with too many tabs open. You hear about "slowing down," about "meditation," about mindfulness as healing remedies. But when you try, you feel helpless, even worse, because you simply cannot focus. It feels like a fourth grader holding a twelfth grade math book — both confusing and discouraging.

The teaching of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness does not ask you to climb to the mountain top right away. It simply offers you a mirror, so you can see which grade you are standing in. When you know you are in grade four, you will study grade four math well, and then, little by little, you will move up.

This little book is a soul check-up, helping you recognize your own capacity, so you no longer wander in confusion, so that every step is a step forward, and so you can see that peace does not lie in some distant future, but begins right where you are standing.