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  1. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self Self, Not-self, & Beyond
     … As you’re trying to gain skill in these practices, you come face-to-face with the committee inside. For example, when you want to be generous, some of the members of the committee like the idea of making bread to give to your friends, and some don’t. Similarly with the precepts: Some of the committee members like the idea of letting the … 
  2. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self Strategies of Self & Not-self
     … These members of the committee tend to be deluded. Some of your strategies involved doing things you liked to do but actually led to suffering—as when you hit your sister and got your toy truck back. These members of the committee tend to be dishonest and deceitful: They deny the suffering they caused. This is why your committee of selves is not an … 
  3. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self Not-self for Transcendent Happiness
     … This forces you to step back from the unskillful committee members that push for those ways of looking for pleasure, and to ask whether you want to continue associating and identifying with them or not. This process isn’t always easy. You tend to identify with those unskillful committee members because you associate them with pleasure. But the practice of jhāna helps make this … 
  4. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self A Healthy Sense of Self
     … This is the kind of pride that can use a sense of shame, integrity, and all the other attitudes the Buddha is teaching here as means to negotiate with your less skillful selves, the less skillful members of the committee, and win them over to the path to true happiness. In the factors of the path, this comes under right effort: the ability to … 
  5. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self The Ego on the Path
     … We also talked about some of the qualities the Buddha recommends for skillfully negotiating with the less skillful members of the mind’s committee and motivating them to do the right thing. Tonight’s talk approaches the same topics from a slightly different angle, looking at them in terms of what modern psychology has to say about mature ego functioning. Sometimes you hear that … 
  6. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self Not-self for Mundane Happiness
     … When you try to develop virtue, you’ll find voices in the committee of your mind that resist the precepts. You have to learn how not to identify with them—and how to do it skillfully—as part of developing virtue as a treasure or a perfection. Similarly with the practice of goodwill: You learn to see ill will as something you don’t … 
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