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- In Accordance with the Dhamma… You feel close to him. You feel close to all the people who’ve practiced it over all that time. You’re part of a long lineage of people who are close. When we first came here, there was a lot of pressure from our visitors for us to change things: “So now that you’re in America, you have to do things the …
- The Buddha’s Basic Therapy… Sometimes we feel that our parents don’t deserve our gratitude. If we’re grateful, we may feel we’re giving them something they don’t deserve. But that’s not the case at all. As we develop gratitude, we develop something that works to our advantage: a sense of appreciation. If nothing else, they gave us this body. Our mothers went through pregnancy …
- Responsible Conviction… They just fall back on what they feel right doing—or they want to do. Whereas the Buddhist teachings stretch you. Some people think the teaching on rebirth is childish, that it’s comforting that death is not the end. But it’s really scary that you could be reborn as almost anything, because you don’t know what kind of actions you’ve …
- Monastery Standard Time… So it’s important that you develop this sense of the observer that can watch whatever’s happening in the mind, and not feel that it has to get sucked in, not feel that it has to side with anybody. As part of the practice you do want to side with the skillful tendencies in the mind, but when everything seems confusing, and you …
- Lighter & Stronger… A lot of people feel a little bit disoriented when they stop that internal commentary. Some people think that it’s a great insight into the fact that there’s no ego or no self there. Actually, there’s still a sense of self, but it’s very much attenuated. I was talking to somebody today who had one experience of no commentary in …
- Determined on Awakening… the perceptions you hold in mind, the images, the words with which you assign identities to things and give meanings to things; and then your feelings—feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. When you do those things in ignorance, you’re going to suffer. The Buddha’s teachings can be seen as recommendations on how to do those things with knowledge …
- Don’t Leak Out Your Ears & Eyes… Or as Ajaan Lee says, don’t let it leak out of your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, thoughts of the past, or thoughts of the future because if you do, you feel depleted inside. You feel a sense of lack, a sense of hunger. And that makes you want to get more things out of your eyes and ears, nose, tongue, body, sights, sounds …
- Mundane Right View… Having a mind that feels generous, having a mind that feels gratitude: Those are spacious mind states here and now. They’re good mind states to be in, good to build on, good sources of energy. So make sure you don’t neglect the foundation, because everything else depends on that.
- The Right Piece in the Right Puzzle… The feeling is the feeling of pleasure. Perception is the mental image that holds you with the breath. Fabrication consists of your directed thought and evaluation as you adjust the breath to fit with the mind, adjust the mind to fit with the breath, and then keep them there together. Then there’s consciousness, which is aware of all these things. You have to …
- Karma-ism… If you’re attached to certain feelings, you’re defined by your feelings. In other words, self-definition is an activity, it’s something you do. And it’s all bound up in suffering. So no matter how you answer the question of who or what you are, you’re going to get tied up in suffering. Even if you can find fluid answers …
- Beginner’s Mind… Often we feel that we’ve been committed to a particular way of acting and it seems like a major overhaul to change it. Don’t think in those terms. Think in terms of trying something on, experimenting. When Ajaan Fuang used to say to play with the breath, this is what he was talking about: Experiment. Get some enjoyment out it. If you …
- Endurance Training… Then bring that goodwill inside and try to breathe in a way that feels good. Breathe in a way that gives the mind strength. Develop good qualities in the mind. When we meditate, we’re feeding the mind, but at the same time, we’re exercising it. Now, if the mind just feeds, feeds, feeds, that’s the image for clinging. You feed off …
- When Your Head Is on Fire… When you’re free from remorse, there’s no need for an effort, no need for an intention, for the mind to feel pleasure and ease. When the mind feels pleasure and ease, there’s no need for an act of will to get into concentration—and so on down the line, ultimately getting to knowledge and vision of release. It sounds as if …
- What’s Real… We take these things that we normally do—bodily fabrication, or the breath; verbal fabrication—directed thought and evaluation, i.e., the way you talk to yourself; and then mental fabrication, your feelings and perceptions: We take these things and turn them into our path. When we engage in these fabrications out of ignorance, they’re going to cause suffering. But when we fabricate …
- Equanimity & More… That thought should give rise to a feeling of samvega. Where are you going go to find a true, unadulterated happiness? There’s only one place, and that’s nibbāna—and it’s not even a place. It’s another dimension entirely outside of space and time. You think about that and you realize that that would be the only way to find true …
- No Arrows, Nothing… Just when you feel that you can depend on it, it starts to betray you. Of course, it’s not really betrayal. It didn’t enter into any agreement. The mind comes into the body, grabs hold of it, animates it, and tries to get what it wants, using the body. The body will work for a while. But then this part doesn’t …
- To Disturb Your Complacency… What’s this? What’s happening here in your mind right now? What’s your experience of form right now? What kind of feelings do you have right now? What are your perceptions right now? What are your thought constructs, your intentions? How about your consciousness right now? How do you experience these things? Are you suffering from them? If you are, what are …
- Pain… Otherwise, it’s going to feel threatened by the pain. So find a part of the body that’s comfortable. As Ajaan Lee said, if everything in the body were in pain, we’d die. So there’s got to be some part that’s comfortable right now. Focus there and resist every temptation to go into the pain. It may be seeming to …
- Desires Have Their Reasons… You feel this little funny feeling in your hand, this little funny feeling in the heart area or the stomach area, and you go for something right away: a particular line of thought, a particular type of action. And it’s totally random that you’ve made that connection. So you want to see the randomness and the arbitrariness of that, because that weakens …
- After the Fire… This is why, as things begin to settle down in the mind, you can’t just allow the mind to drift off anyway it wants, or to latch on to a feeling of pleasure and just take the pleasure as your object, because it begins to get fuzzy after a while, and the mind begins to get dull. So once the mind is still …
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