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  2. Redirected Thought, Re-evaluation
  3. Let Pleasure & Pain Fall Off the Plow
     … These perceptions form the nucleus around which we start fabricating our thoughts. Then there’s a feeling of the pleasure that comes with those thoughts. But the thoughts can turn on you. They can lead to other thoughts that give pain. They’re all part of the same process. So, if you hold on to these processes because of the pleasure they can give … 
  4. Afraid of Pleasure
     … It starts out with directed thought and evaluation. As the Buddha said, after you’ve put aside your obsession with sensual pleasures and other unskillful mental qualities, you focus on one object, direct your thoughts to the object, and then you evaluate the object. Those processes are what give rise to a sense of ease and rapture, pleasure and rapture. For instance, when you … 
  5. All Living Beings & Their Thoughts
  6. See Your Thoughts as Alien
  7. In Control of Your Thoughts
  8. Make Peace with Your Thoughts
  9. The Power of Intention
     … But at some point you make up your mind that it’s a thought—it’s mental—and it’s a thought about x: a thought about tomorrow, a thought about yesterday, a thought about this person, that person. Something in the thought captures your imagination, captures your attention, and you build a whole world around it. Then you go into that world, and … 
  10. Don’t Focus on Jhana, Focus on the Breath
     … There’s directed thought, there’s evaluation, singleness of preoccupation, pleasure, rapture. The list makes it sound like there are five things you’ve got to find and put together. Actually, though, you’re already doing directed thought and evaluation. Your mind is already talking to itself, and it’s using directed thought and evaluation to do so. It’s simply that you’re … 
  11. To Master the Ways of Thought
  12. When the Thoughts Won't Stop
  13. In Restraint Is Strength
     … Well, have a sense of the value of this center and remind yourself what freedom of thought means from the Buddha’s point of view: You’re free to think skillful thoughts and you’re free to not think unskillful thoughts. That way, your thinking becomes useful. So look at the practice as an all-day affair. You’re developing your mind all the … 
  14. Resisting the Germs of Defilement
     … When you develop this particular thought in the mind, where does it take you? If you develop that one, where does it take you? You analyze the thought not in terms of whether you like it or not. You analyze it in terms of where it’s coming from in the mind and where it’s going: what qualities are leading to that kind … 
  15. The Opportunity to Be Quiet
     … Use these thoughts to cut through any thoughts that would send out their webs and say, “Let me think about this,” and then connect this with that, and that with this. Any thought that extends in any direction, just think of your mind cutting through it. There was a forest ajaan who was an expert at making axes. He liked to talk about how … 
  16. Free to Do the Right Thing
     … Those are the thoughts to keep you focused on the breath, keep you focused on the present moment. As for other thoughts, no matter how true they may be, no matter how beneficial they maybe in other times, you’ve got to learn to put them aside. Thoughts about what you did today, thoughts about what you’re going to do later today, what … 
  17. Your Tranquility & Your Insight
     … Doubts come into the mind, restless thoughts come into the mind, lustful thoughts come into the mind, and we tend to just jump into them. They become little becomings. A thought-world appears, there’s something you want in that world, so you go into it. It’s because you go into it that you can’t see it clearly. You have to learn … 
  18. Insight from Developing Concentration
     … Sometimes they have a particular thought in mind that they want to go into. It’s almost as if a curtain comes down on your mind and then you’re off someplace else. You’ve fallen into the thought world. The appearance of the thought world there is becoming. And your going into it is birth. You want to be able to catch yourself … 
  19. Breath Meditation, Step by Step
     … As you sit here, all kinds of other thoughts are going to come up—because that’s the way the mind has been for a long time. This thought comes and you peek into it, “Where will this thought take me?” Then another thought comes, and you peek into that. But it’s not just sitting there for you to peek into. Once you … 
  20. Hobo Mind
    We spend most of our days like hobos, hopping from one train of thought to the next. But at least hobos have some idea of where they want to go. We’re not often all that sure. A train of thought comes along, and we just jump on to it, before we even look to see where it’s going, whether it’s someplace … 
  21. The Raft of Concepts
     … And these thoughts, if you use them properly, are all meant to help the mind get settled down. The Buddha once said that after all his years of false starts and dead-end alleys, he finally got onto the path when he realized that he should divide his thoughts into two types: skillful and unskillful. This meant that he judged his thoughts by the … 
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