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  2. A Soiled, Oily Rag
     … You look first at your other attachments—to things aside from the path—so that you’re ready for the insight that sees, “Oh, this isn’t worth holding on to. All these things that I’ve identified as me or mine: They’re just soiled, oily rags. Or like that Far Side cartoon of a cow, out in the pasture with a lot … 
  3. The Ten Priorities
     … As the Buddha said, one of the reasons we fear death is because of our attachment to sensual pleasures and to our sensual desires. So, it’s an important thing to learn how to give up. Realize that there are better forms of happiness. The dangers of being attached to sensuality are much greater than the dangers of being attached to, say, jhana. Often … 
  4. Invest in the Breath
     … So try on his concepts and see what kind of questions they ask about you, about your sense of the body and how you can use them to peel away any attachments, any unskillful ways of approaching your body or relating to the body and relating to your mind. This way, you can find that pleasure has its uses. Pain has its uses. Physical … 
  5. What Focus? What Breath?
     … You’re not going to overcome sensual attachments and sensual desire unless you have a better place to stay inside. Otherwise, you’d be denying yourself up to a certain point, then the issue of frustrated desire will come in, take over, and drive you out. But if you can actually give yourself a viscerally pleasant place to stay, then you have more of … 
  6. Self View & Conceit
     … If you’re going to be attached to the pleasure, it’s better than not having this pleasure to be attached to—because otherwise, you’re just going to go back to your old ways, attached to looking for pleasure in sensuality. So you learn how to enjoy the pleasure of concentration but without losing your focus. This is one of the practices you … 
  7. The Perception of Space
     … After all, the third noble truth is letting go, letting go without any strings attached, without any nostalgia for the things you let go. This is a quality, again, that we want to develop from the very beginning. With generosity, when you give something, you let go. This was one of Ajaan Fuang’s major pet peeves, when people would come and give things … 
  8. Putting Out the Fires
     … trying to put the fires out, to free the mind from its attachment to the various kinds of fuel it latches on to. Even though we may think that things outside provoke lust, greed, or anger, the potential for lust, greed, and anger is there, just waiting in the mind, ready to pounce on things and latch onto them. What we have to do … 
  9. The Problem of Suffering
     … Anything that comes up in the meditation that disturbs your concentration, that disturbs your stillness, you can apply those teachings to pry the mind loose from its attachments to those things. And it gets easier: If the thought happens to come back, you can really ignore it, you don’t have to get involved. And you find that by not getting involved, you begin … 
  10. Nimble with Your Questions
     … If you find that attachment to food is a problem, maybe part of the problem is your attachment to aversion. So look at your relationship to aversion. If you find that sitting long periods is a problem, ask yourself: What is it in you that doesn’t want to sit long periods of time? And there will be a part of the mind that … 
  11. Scramble the Image
     … This is one way of digging up unknown attachments—or some old known attachments that you finally decide you’re going to take on. And see what the mind has to say. Whatever comes up—good, bad, indifferent, whatever—scramble it. Some of the forest ajaans say that if you have an image of the body, think of having a knife that you can … 
  12. An End to the Stories
     … You’re fighting with your own greed, aversion, and delusion—and all your attachments. The hardest attachments to let go of, they say, is the sense of having been wronged. There’s usually a desire to want to get back or, at the very least, to have the other side acknowledge that they did wrong. But remember, we’re living in a world where … 
  13. Lighter & Stronger
     … Even though it’s a useful tool, it can bring a lot of suffering if you’re attached to it. And you’re better off not being attached. Again, these perceptions have to be used together with all four of the noble truths. The truths teach you to get the mind into concentration, and one of the things you’ll learn as you begin … 
  14. Seeing with the Body
     … That helps loosen up your attachment to the suffering. So it’s important to understand this process: that you’re clinging to, identifying with, the very things that cause you to suffer. Even though that’s what defines you, it’s simply a definition you’ve imposed on things. You don’t really need it to function. You don’t really have to worry … 
  15. Body as Sensuality, Body as Form
     … They give rise to all kinds of greed, aversion, delusion, and attachment—fierce addictions. And as we leave this body, we want another one. This is one of the reasons we do this contemplation, to realize it’s not so good to come back in a body, at least not a human body. The Brahmās have their bodies, but they relate to them, again … 
  16. Duties in the Present
     … If you feel attached, it’s a healthy attachment, because it can help you let go of more unskillful attachments. When the mind is well centered, then it’s in a position to really see where there’s stress, what element of craving in your present intentions creates that stress, so that you can let go of the craving, let go of the craving … 
  17. A Path of Aggregates
     … form, feeling, perceptions, fabrication, consciousness? For one thing, he says it’s through our attachment to these things that we create our sense of being a being. And it’s this attachment that keeps grabbing on to new aggregates as the old ones pass away, and goes from one life to the next. Attachments just keep happening again and again and again. It’s … 
  18. Guardian Meditations
     … This is a particularly good if you’re attached to your body, you’re attached to your health, fixated on the idea that the body has to be in a certain way, you want it to be perfect in this way or that. It’s got to eat certain kinds of food in order to stay alive and healthy. Is that attachment getting in … 
  19. The Lessons of Good Kamma
     … So look at your opportunities to be generous as opportunities to see and understand the Dhamma, to practice the internal dialogue that’s needed in areas where you discover you’re more attached than you thought you were. Certain things you can give away and it’s no big deal, but certain of your defilements, certain types of greed or aversion, things you really … 
  20. Respect for Heedfulness
     … If we can understand how the mind puts suffering together, we begin to untangle all the mind’s attachments, all the ways it makes and creates unnecessary problems for itself. At the same time we start opening ourselves up to something better. So we focus on suffering because it’s a learning opportunity. In fact, the Buddha actually has us treat suffering with respect … 
  21. A Point of Balance
     … Don’t be too quick to throw them away, because otherwise you’ll never find a way out of that dilemma of being too attached to the idea of becoming something, or too attached to the idea of wanting everything to be annihilated. You want to stand right here in the present moment and see things arising and passing away, arising and passing away … 
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