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The Karma of Mindfulness Mindfulness of Feelings & Mind States
… This is the meaning of the middle way in dealing with pleasure and pain. The term “middle way” doesn’t mean that we go for middling pleasures or middling pains. Instead, we regard only one pleasure—the pleasure of nibbāna or unbinding— as the true goal, and we try to perceive or attend to other pleasures and pains in terms of whether they lead …
The Karma of Mindfulness Training in Skillful Kamma
… So if you have to criticize your behavior to yourself in order to get back on the path, do it in a way that lifts your spirits—and sometimes the criticism will have to be strong to get the desired effect—but don’t do it in a way that gets your spirits down. Frivolous chattering refers to any random thoughts that come in …
The Karma of Mindfulness Feelings of Pain
… For instance, a pain in your knee may actually come from a lack of circulation in the middle of your back or in your face. When that’s the case, you have to let breath energy flow in the middle of the back or in the face if you want to prevent the pain in the knee. The relationships between circulation of breath energy …
The Karma of Mindfulness Introduction
… Or like the spider in the middle of a web: The spider is in one spot, but it’s sensitive to the whole web. Try to maintain this sense of centered but broad awareness all the way through the in-breath, all the way through the out. Maintain this quality of awareness as long and as steadily as you can. Try to master it …
The Karma of Mindfulness Meditation on Kamma
… You have to act in ways that will create treasures that you would like to keep with you. You have to treat your actions as your most important possessions. There’s a passage in the Canon where King Pasenadi comes to see the Buddha in the middle of the day and the Buddha asks him, “Where have you come from in the middle of …
The Karma of Mindfulness A Healthy Understanding of Kamma
… In this way, the Buddha finds a middle way that allows for freedom within the patterns of cause and effect in our actions. In fact, these interacting patterns form the basic metaphysical principle on the nature of causality that the Buddha discovered in the course of his awakening. Together they form the fourth metaphysical implication of a healthy psychological attitude toward actions: that actions …
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