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  2. Strength from Within
     … The craving that leads to suffering is specifically three kinds—for sensuality, for becoming, and for non-becoming—but the desire to do well on the path is not part of the cause of suffering. It’s part of the path. So you try to nurture that desire, give rise to it, and nourish to keep it strong. Again, one of the customs of … 
  3. Insight from Developing Concentration
     … This is priming you to see the processes that can lead to becoming simply as processes. As you maintain this perception of the breath, it’ll lead to a state of becoming—a skillful one: concentration. You’re inhabiting the body. There’s a sense of you in here in the world of the body. But you’re doing this in such a way … 
  4. Normalcy
     … We become one with the tree so that the tree can take over. We become one with the wall so that the wall can take over. We want to blot out our experience of who we are and who we’ve been. Or we push ourselves into extremes with the idea if we just push a little bit harder, we’ll get over the … 
  5. Instructions for a New Monk
     … Then learning how to see one of these effluents, becoming, and learning how to abandon it gets rid of ignorance takes you to full awakening. Becoming is basically your sense of identity in a world of experience, which can either be here in this human world on the macro scale, or in the worlds of the mind on a micro scale. You can see … 
  6. Agreements to Perceive
     … The breath becomes more important, your sense of stillness becomes more important, and the thoughts get pushed down to a lower level. Instead of being something to explore and take on as a new world, a thought becomes simply an event that you have to watch out for. When you can change your priorities like this, change your inner agreements like this, it has … 
  7. Compunction
     … These become your perfections. They become your treasures. They become your protection. These are the good qualities you build in the mind. They don’t go anywhere else. They stay with the mind. And that’s the paradox, that the goodness you leave behind in the world is the goodness that goes with you. The goodness that you try to grab to yourself—in … 
  8. Testing Insights
     … In that way, you become a tourist meditator. You dip in a little bit, and you have a nice little tourist experience, and then you dip out. You come in again, then you’re out again. You never gain the kind of understanding that comes from really living in a location. But if you stick with one way of dealing with the breath, you … 
  9. Magha Puja: Showing Respect with the Practice
     … Are they as good as this? Are they as harmless as this? Are you taking something from other people? Or is the mind becoming intoxicated? Is the awareness becoming blurred with its happiness? You’ve got this clear state of mind in the present moment as your point of comparison so that you can begin to measure clearly which kinds of happiness are worth … 
  10. Mindfulness of Death & the Deathless
     … That’s the process of what the Buddha calls “becoming,” followed by “birth.” So the process that would lead to rebirth is happening right here, all the time. All the “becomings” that we create in the course of the day are simply small versions of what’s going to happen when we can’t stay in this body any longer. Different worlds will appear … 
  11. Being Reliable
     … Then your mind will become more reliable. It finally gets to the point where, when you can depend on yourself, other people can depend on you, too. This is why the Sangha is one of our refuges. You become a member of the noble Sangha. Other people can depend on you both as an example and for the fact that you’re never going … 
  12. De-domesticated
    As you engage in the practice, you take on new states of becoming. You become a new person and you shape the world around you in new ways. After all, that’s what becoming is: a sense of who you are in a particular world of experience. And your sense of yourself and your sense of the world are very intimately interconnected. You’ve … 
  13. Metta Can Hurt
     … Otherwise, if they don’t become a source of obvious suffering, they become a source of denial. You’re in a little bubble of mettā and it’s not connected with the world at all. That’s not the kind of concentration that can be really useful for discernment. The Buddha does talk about using the brahma-vihāras as a basis for the seven … 
  14. Permission to Play
     … If you’re simply sitting with whatever comes up, meditation becomes an exercise in brute endurance. If no pleasure’s coming up in the meditation, no sense of rapture or gratification, it becomes dull and unattractive. You find it harder and harder to actually sit down and keep up with the practice day after day. But if you allow the meditation to be a … 
  15. Making the Dhamma Your Own
     … This strengthens your confidence both in yourself and in the Dhamma—because they become one and the same thing. Your mind becomes Dhamma; you’ve made it your own. And that’s not by imposing your ideas about the Dhamma on it. It simply means that you make yourself into Dhamma by challenging yourself and using the Dhamma to rise to the challenge. When … 
  16. Ask the Right Questions
     … And when you take these issues seriously, you find that your life does become more auspicious. You’re causing less suffering for yourself, less suffering for other beings. There’s a greater and greater sense of well-being that becomes established inside. So this is how we develop a happy New Year: developing the causes for a happy New Year by making sure that … 
  17. A Total Training
     … Once that movement feels good, think of it spreading to different parts of the body, so that the breathing becomes a whole-body process. Everybody’s participating in the breath. If the mind wanders off, bring it back and then see if the breath can be made even more comfortable. This way, over time, the breath becomes more satisfying; the mind becomes more tame … 
  18. Enlarged Awareness
     … That way, the meditation becomes your foundation, and your sense of the world or your sense of yourself within the world begins to change. It’s not that there’s a little you inside the world. It’s more that there’s an experience of the world inside this larger sense of awareness. That becomes more fundamental. That becomes your foundation. If there’s … 
  19. Focus on What’s Important
     … for sensuality, for becoming, for non-becoming. Sensuality is your mind’s fascination with thinking about sensual pleasures. Becoming is the act of taking on an identity in a world of experience. You see something that you want, you see the world in which it’s found, and you see yourself taking on an identity within that world, as someone who can get what … 
  20. Caring Without Clinging
     … This is another one of those issues around becoming. In fact, the Pali word for emotion, bhāva, is like bhava. Bhava means “becoming.” You make it bhāva with a long a, and it becomes “emotion.” We like to get into the emotion. We like to taste it. But then we become slaves to it. We get addicted to the taste. We want to taste … 
  21. Strong Through Mindfulness
     … It then becomes part of the rhythm of your own mind. Then, as the Buddha said, you take the ability you’ve developed through memorizing passages to get better and better at holding things in mind. That makes it easier to settle down and do the real work of the meditation. After all, we’re not here just to be aware of things, to … 
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