Search results for: middle way

  1. Book search result icon Good Heart, Good Mind Selves & Not-self
     … At the same time, when you learn how to get more separated from the pleasure and pain, and not be so affected by them, this is how practice in concentration puts you on the middle way. As you may remember, the middle way avoids the pain of self-torture and also the extreme of sensual pleasure. Now, the fact that it’s in the … 
  2. Book search result icon Good Heart, Good Mind Conclusion
     … This is how you put yourself onto the path of the middle way. The fourth and final of the desires of determination is to train only for calm. Now, calm here functions in two ways. On the one hand, it’s the goal to which you aim; on the other hand, it’s a means to help give you stamina on the path to … 
  3. Book search result icon Good Heart, Good Mind Introduction
     … Then bring your attention to the middle of the chest. Try to be especially sensitive to how the breath energy feels around the heart, and breathe in a way that feels soothing there. Now bring your attention to the right, to the place where the chest and the shoulder meet. And then to the same spot on the left. Now bring your attention to … 
  4. Book search result icon Good Heart, Good Mind Pain
     … The first thing that you have to understand about pain is that some of it comes from your actions in the past—such as the way you’ve been using your body, the way you’ve been feeding it, the extent to which you have or haven’t been exercising it—but some of the causes for the pain are things you’re doing … 
  5. Book search result icon Good Heart, Good Mind Virtue
     … So tonight, I’d like to look into the different ways in which discernment, or right view, and right mindfulness work to develop the perfection of persistence. Persistence is directed by discernment in four ways: • The first way is seeing the distinction between what is skillful and what’s unskillful. • The second way is giving you the motivation to want to put forth effort … 
  6. Book search result icon Good Heart, Good Mind Grief & Remorse
     … He develops equanimity toward the symptoms he can’t cure so that he can focus on those he can—or at least on ways in which he can alleviate the patient’s pain and suffering. Instead of trying to force things in areas where he cannot make a difference, he channels his goodwill and compassion for the patient in other ways that are more … 
  7. Book search result icon Good Heart, Good Mind Readings
     … Others may address you in a timely way or an untimely way. They may address you with what is true or what is false. They may address you in an affectionate way or a harsh way. They may address you in a beneficial way or an unbeneficial way. They may address you with a mind of goodwill or with inner hate. In any event … 
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