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- The Fourth Frame of Reference… mindfulness, analysis of qualities, and persistence. Mindfulness is what helps you remember to look for what’s skillful and unskillful; analysis of qualities—which is nurtured by appropriate attention—is what enables you to recognize skillful and unskillful qualities as they arise; and persistence is what carries through with the desire to develop the skillful and abandon the unskillful ones. Analysis of qualities actually …
- Heedfulness & Confidence… generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, equanimity. These qualities are all skills that we can develop. And then these skills enable us to deal with whatever comes up in a way that doesn’t cause suffering for ourselves or other people. So we should have some confidence in them as we develop them. Now the question is, how do we make …
- The Path to the Top… Conviction is like one of the rafters, as are persistence, mindfulness, and concentration. Only when you have discernment, which is the ridge pole, is the frame for the roof secure. So the only way you can know the truth of the teaching is to put it to the test until discernment arises—and it has to be a rigorous test. As Ajaan Lee once …
- The Brightness of Life… Or if something good is there, what you can do to maintain it? That leads immediately to the next quality, which is persistence, i.e., right effort. As we chanted just now, you try to generate the desire to make sure that unskillful qualities don’t arise. And you do that by developing skillful qualities. Once unskillful qualities have arisen, what can you do …
- Meaning Through Perfections… As you’re meeting up with challenges, you have to develop the perfection of determination, the perfections of persistence and endurance, the perfection of truthfulness. Every way in which you develop good qualities like this, you’re taking one more step toward awakening. The important thing, though, is that you’re guided by discernment. After all, when you look at the perfections, you can …
- Simple & Basic… That’s persistence. Then there’s intentness, looking very, very carefully at what you’re doing, not sloughing over the details. And then finally, powers of analysis: checking up on how things are going with a very clear sense of what counts as skillful and what doesn’t. Work on these things—keep it basic—these four bases of success, and you find the …
- Being Right… You had to be sincere and persistent—the feeling being that if you’d showed that sincerity and that persistence, you’d be a good candidate to learn the Dhamma. This is a lesson that gets taught from an early age. In Japan they have a little doll. When you knock it over, it rights itself. You knock it over again, and it turns …
- But Not Sick in Mind… Another one of the bases of success is persistence: You really stick with the practice. This often means learning how to pace yourself: “How much effort can I put in consistently?” There are times when you need to put in extra effort because a particularly strong problem comes up in the mind. Other times, the effort has to be a little bit more refined …
- Worth… things like generosity and virtue, persistence, patience, discernment, goodwill, and equanimity. Renunciation, truthfulness, determination. These are all qualities that the heart needs. And they’re things that stick with you, in this life on into the next life. This is where you look for value: your value as a person. Of course, it’s not something anyone else can measure, and it has only …
- Borrowed Wealth… At the very least, you’re developing qualities of endurance, persistence, stick-to-it-tividness. And it gets even better when you begin to get a sense of well-being with the breath. Even if in the beginning it’s just for short periods of time, the fact that you’re able to settle down is enough to show yourself that there is a …
- Kindfulness… conviction, persistence, mindfulness, alertness, concentration, discernment, goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, equanimity. These are all good qualities to develop. As for the word qualities here, it’s best to think of them as habits you develop in the mind. That’s because it’s more useful to think of the mind in terms of what it’s doing than in terms of what it is …
- Making the Dhamma Your Own… the mindfulness, alertness, persistence, endurance, ardency. Push yourself so that you can see that these things really do provide a good foundation for the mind. And when you’ve seen it for yourself, when you’ve seen it in your own mind, then that Dhamma becomes yours. It’s not just the Buddha’s Dhamma, or somebody else’s Dhamma. It’s your Dhamma …
- Dimensions of Right Effort… The real issues are how you’re able to generate persistence so that you can stay with the stress long enough to watch it and see how it’s connected with its cause. That requires concentration, because concentration is what gives you a sense of well-being inside, so that you don’t feel oppressed or threatened by the stress. When you feel oppressed …
- Balanced Breathing… One of the basic skills you need to learn in the meditation is how to work persistently and just keep at it, keep at it, but not get tense about it. When you can find that proper balance, you can stay with the path. You don’t keep straying off into the woods. You have a sense of feeling at home as you work …
- Working Ourselves Free… mindfulness, alertness, persistence, right effort. One of the Thai terms for meditation is tham khwaam phien. It means to make an effort. This doesn’t mean that you have to do walking meditation for five hours or sitting meditation for ten hours or to wear down the body. The effort is an effort in the mind: taking care, being mindful, being aware, and doing …
- Test Everything… Be persistent. Develop mindfulness, concentration, discernment, goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, equanimity, gratitude. All of these are good things to be developing. So we approach the path with a certain humility. On the one hand, the Buddha is encouraging us to have faith in our own abilities to test the path—it’s something we can do—but at the same time we have to …
- The Food of Feelings… Conviction can be food for the mind, as can persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. It may seem artificial to create these things, but the Buddha’s analysis of feeling shows that it’s pretty artificial, too—the belief that our feelings are the raw data of experience, the raw data of who we are. In the final analysis, the Buddha said there are potentials …
- Seclusion… The work here is being persistent, not getting careless. You’ll notice, as soon as you start getting careless, that all the issues of the world start flooding in again, and you’re no longer secluded. You may be sitting here alone, but it’s as if you’ve got a room full of people inside you, all jabbering away. So do what you …
- Desert Island Meditation… In other words, he was able to keep his energy going, so that when opportunities presented themselves, he was able to apply his persistence, his energy, all of his efforts, all of his skills to make the most of those opportunities. That’s an important quality we want to build into our minds. In Pali, the term for that confidence is pasada. It goes …
- What Should I Do?… Putting it in the fire stands for right effort—persistence. You have to make an effort. As the Buddha would say, “Exert a fabrication.” Change the way you breathe, change the way you talk to yourself, change the perceptions you’re holding in mind, and the feelings you’re focused on—to get rid of unskillful qualities and bring skillful qualities more to the …
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