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1. The Skill of Release The Treasures of the Dhamma
    … When you abstain from evil in your words and deeds, they turn into the noble treasure of virtue. When this is the case, your treasures are within you. You haven’t deposited them with anyone else. Your generosity lies within you, your virtue—the virtue of restraint of the senses—lies in your eyes, your ears, your mouth. When your treasures are with you … 
2. The Skill of Release Why Meditate?
    … If you practice generosity and virtue but not meditation (the heart’s foundation), it’s like taking a bath on a hot day only from the waist down. If you don’t bathe all the way from the head on down, you won’t get totally refreshed, because the coolness doesn’t go all the way to the heart. § External merit—generosity and virtue … 
3. The Skill of Release Glossary
    … conviction, virtue, healthy shame, compunction, erudition, generosity, and discernment. Avijjā: Ignorance. The basic cause of suffering and stress. Buddho: Awake. An epithet of the Buddha. Dhamma (dharma): Event; phenomenon; the way things are in and of themselves; their inherent qualities; the basic principles underlying their behavior. Also, principles of behavior that human beings should follow so as to fit in with the right natural … 
4. The Skill of Release All-around Discernment
    … This is why we have to practice virtue, concentration, and discernment so that we can get on familiar terms with the five aggregates. That’s what’s meant by insight meditation. Concentration is something you do. Insight meditation is letting go. You can’t “do” insight meditation. It’s a result. When virtue is the cause, concentration is the result. When concentration is the … 
5. The Skill of Release The Skills of Jhāna
    … This is what the Buddha was referring to when he said that concentration matured with virtue is of great benefit, great rewards. § Directed thought is like standing and looking out a window. Whoever walks past, we know, but we don’t call out to them or turn to look after them as they walk down the road. We simply stand perfectly still at the … 
6. The Skill of Release Wings to Awakening
    … When all of these aspects of the Noble Path—virtue, concentration, and discernment—are brought together fully mature within the heart, you gain insight into all aspects of the breath, knowing that “Breathing this way gives rise to good mental states; breathing that way gives rise to bad mental states.” You let go of the factors—i.e., the breath in all its aspects … 
7. The Skill of Release Beginning Concentration
    … The virtues of your heart disappear without your realizing it. If you want to go back and start all over, it’s hard—like going back over a washed-out road. § The mind in concentration is like genuine silver, malleable and white because nothing else is adulterating it. We can make it into whatever we want, easily and quickly, without having to waste time … 
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