Search results for: middle way

  1. The Uses of Pleasure & Pain
     … There are better ways to think, better ways to manage the thought processes in the mind. And a funny thing happens. As you master these processes, they bring you to a point where everything reaches equilibrium. That’s where you can really let go. You can even let go of your tools at that point because they’ve taken you where you want to … 
  2. Maintenance Work
     … The pilings on this bank and that bank aren’t hard to place, but the pilings in the middle are really hard. You’ve got to withstand the current of the river. You dig down and put a few stones on the bottom of the river and you come back with your next load of stones only to discover that the first load of … 
  3. Book search result icon Meditations1 Giving Rise to Discernment
     … He discovered that the principles of causality work in such a way that you can bring yourself to the Uncaused by being as skillful as possible in what you do. And the discernment that shows you how to act in those ways, that detects what in your intentions is skillful and what’s unskillful, what in the results of your actions are satisfactory or … 
  4. Book search result icon Meditations1 A Good Dose of Medicine
     … When the Buddha talks about the Middle Way, it’s not necessarily what our preconceived notions of the Middle Way are. You have to test them. And the effort required is not blind effort. Right effort involves using your eyes: knowing what’s skillful in the mind, what’s unskillful, being determined to let go of anything unskillful that arises in the mind, and … 
  5. Tuning-in to the Breath
     … Many times we have habitual ways of relating to sensations, and they’re so habitual and so consistent that we think there’s no choice at all. “This is the way things have to be,” we think, but they don’t. That’s the other implication of the principle of kamma: You can change your actions. If some parts of experience are dependent on … 
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