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  1. Book search result icon The Heightened Mind: Dhamma Talks by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo Coming Ashore
     … Or think of it in another way: The mind is cool and refreshed like a lotus blooming in the middle of a pond. It’s surrounded by nourishing water, cool and with an appealing scent. If you’re sitting here in the meditation hall without any hindrances in the mind, it’s like a lotus in the middle of a pond. This is also … 
  2. Book search result icon The Heightened Mind: Dhamma Talks by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo Introduction
     … This mode of analysis dates back to the time of the Buddha, although Ajaan Lee develops it in a distinctive way. Think of this analysis not as an attempt at biology or chemistry—the sciences we use to analyze the body from the outside—but as a way of analyzing how the body feels from the inside. This is an aspect of awareness that … 
  3. Book search result icon The Heightened Mind: Dhamma Talks by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo The Fresh Flavor of Dhamma
     … In the same way, there are different kinds of Dhamma—so you can choose to stay with whichever of the 40 types of meditation themes you like. When you stay mixed up with your defilements, or like to run back and forth with your external concepts and perceptions, you’re no different from a person floating in a boat in the middle of a … 
  4. Book search result icon The Heightened Mind: Dhamma Talks by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo Beyond Death
     … In the beginning we’re born, then in the middle we change, and in the end we fall apart and die. Death is something no one aspires to, and yet no one can escape it. We all have death at the end of our path. Thinking about death gives rise both to benefits and to harm. For shortsighted people it’s harmful, because it … 
  5. Book search result icon The Heightened Mind: Dhamma Talks by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo Right Action, Right Result
     … It’s because we’re stupid in so many ways that we suffer so much. When craving arises, it damages people all around us. This is why we should develop the causes for happiness and ease, so as to prevent these kinds of dangers—for when difficulties arise, the mind will start spinning in all sorts ways that will cause us to suffer. For … 
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