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1. Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Glossary
    … One of the five major collections of suttas in the Pāli Canon, containing suttas of middle (majjhima) length. Mettā: Goodwill; benevolence. One of the four brahmavihāras. Nibbāna: Literally, the “unbinding” of the mind from passion, aversion, and delusion, and from the entire round of death and rebirth. As this term also denotes the extinguishing of a fire, it carries connotations of stilling, cooling, and … 
2. Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Mindfulness of Breathing: Feelings
    … the nose, the middle of the head, the base of the throat, the tip of the breastbone, above the navel—but there are other possible spots as well. Focus attention on wherever the breath seems to originate, and think of breath energy radiating effortlessly from that spot. If there are any feelings of tension that seem to get in the way of that radiating … 
3. Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Conclusion
    … One day he came to see the Buddha in the middle of the day, and the Buddha asked him, “What have you been doing today, great king?” Let me read you his answer: “Just now, lord, I was engaged in the sort of royal affairs typical of head-anointed warrior kings intoxicated with the intoxication of sovereignty, obsessed by greed for sensuality, who have … 
4. Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Readings
    … Then King Pasenadi Kosala went to the Blessed One in the middle of the day and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there, the Blessed One said to him: “Well now, great king, where are you coming from in the middle of the day?” “Just now, lord, I was engaged in the sort of royal … 
5. Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Mindfulness of Breathing: Mind
    … Those are some of the ways you can release it, ultimately on the way to total release. It’s in this way that you can use the mind to train the mind—to read its moods, to make it glad to be abandoning unskillful thoughts and developing skillful ones, to get it more concentrated, and to release it, step by step, from its various … 
6. Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Q&A
    … That would be a lie, and the way around that situation would be to figure out some way to not give information about the fugitive to the police without, at the same time, lying. This sort of thing is going to be a challenge for each of us as we practice the precepts. My experience has been that the ways of not giving information … 
7. Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Giving Care
    … extremes as to how people interpret the best way to express goodwill for a patient. One extreme is the idea that you have to extend life as long as possible. The other extreme is terminating life when the quality of life goes down. The Buddha’s instructions avoid these two extremes and follow a middle course whose outside parameters are provided by the precepts … 
8. Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Mindfulness of Death (2)
    … But if you realize that they are actually getting in the way of your own progress, that’s half the battle right there. The Buddha mentions four of these five hindrances explicitly in his discussion of what to guard against at the moment of death. The one he doesn’t mention explicitly, sloth and drowsiness, is implicit. To be drowsy gets in the way … 
9. Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Q&A
    … motor, but sometimes you’re out in the middle of a forest and you don’t have any parts, so you use wire and paper clips in order to get back home. In other words, deal with the problems that come up and are pressing, but otherwise put them aside. It’s in this way that your discernment begins to develop. But when you … 
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