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  2. Into the Light of Consciousness
     … Then it gets expanded with the next principle for judging, which is altruism; when you realize that your happiness cannot depend on the suffering of others. This principle in Buddhism is called compassion. Compassion begins with realizing that if you cause other people harm or you actually cause them to do harm, and they reap the karmic results of that, it’s going to … 
  3. Karma & Gratitude
     … It’s basically instructions on how to find happiness in your engagement with the world in a way that doesn’t cause any suffering, doesn’t cause any harm to anyone. In other words, your happiness spreads around, and in so doing, it becomes goodness. And meditation is one of those activities where the happiness, the goodness, spreads around. You see this most clearly … 
  4. The Airplane Mechanic
     … The mind’s causing itself suffering. And there is a solution. There’s another paradox. On the one hand, we don’t have much time. On the other hand, we have all the time in the world. If we don’t finish the job in this lifetime, we can come back and try it again and again. Still, that coming back involves a large … 
  5. Eight Principles
     … You’re open to the suffering of being wet and cold. Here, in the heat, you’re open to the suffering of being hot, if you take possession of the body, if that’s what you’re focusing on. But remember: You have the choice to focus or not. One of the ways to content yourself is to focus on things that are easy … 
  6. The Seven Treasures
     … In other words, you care enough about yourself that you wouldn’t want to do anything that would cause suffering. You care enough about the people around you that you wouldn’t want to do anything to cause them suffering. You’re afraid of the dangers that your actions could bring about if they were unskillful. It’s a healthy kind of fear. Another … 
  7. Constructing & Deconstructing
     … In other words, what’s a cause, what’s an effect, and what are good causes, and what are bad causes? As he goes on to say, this is the insight that leads to the right ending of stress and suffering. That requires that you know what to do with things as they arise and pass away. Some things, when they arise, you want … 
  8. Thoughts, Wanted and Unwanted
     … They changed themselves because they realized that a lot of their habits were causing suffering. The reflection on stress and the cause of stress—the teachings of the four noble truths—comes in really handy here. There are types of thinking we like to think but they’re causing a lot of stress in our lives. They’re making it difficult for us to … 
  9. Mindfulness 2.0
     … It gives you tools to deal with things so that you can actually complete the duties of the four noble truths and realize the cessation of suffering. That’s a large goal, but it’s within our reach, something we can all do—if we establish our mindfulness properly. As the Buddha said, if it were impossible to abandon unskillful qualities and to develop … 
  10. Persistence: Lift Your Heart
     … I’m tired of all the suffering I’ve been through in the past. I’m tired of looking at my own actions and seeing that they’ve created suffering. I want something better.” Now, there’s some discernment in that desire, and you want to foster it so as to lift up the mind. The Buddha gives the image of discernment as a … 
  11. Exploring the Basics
     … Why are you here trying to stay focused on the breath? Ideally, it should be because you realize that the mind causes itself a lot of suffering and this is part of the way out. As you learn how to be sensitive of the breath, you get in touch with one way in which the mind shapes its experience. The breath is one of … 
  12. An Inner Revolution
    When you look at dependent co-arising—the Buddha’s list of causes for suffering—one of the first things that strikes you is how many causes come prior to sensory contact. Sensory contact is where we tend to define what the present moment is: as soon as sound makes contact at the ear, that’s the present; sight makes contact with the eye … 
  13. Skills for Living & Dying
     … If you didn’t want to put an end to suffering, you wouldn’t practice. The Buddha says, in effect, “Let’s take that desire and focus it in the right direction,” i.e., looking at the causes for suffering, so that you’ll want to abandon unskillful qualities and want to give rise to skillful ones in their place. In other words, you … 
  14. Catch Yourself Lying to Yourself
     … It’s more harmful to tell them to do something unskillful, because that can cause them suffering for a long time to come: not just in this lifetime but in many lifetimes down the line. We have to look at these precepts in line with the Buddha’s teachings on the fact that we’re all going to die sometime, we’re all going … 
  15. Right Inner Speech
     … These things that before were a cause of suffering when you clung to them, now can become the path. In this way, we learn how to use our perceptions. If we have the intention to drop them, that means that the new intention becomes the new thing we cling to. So we run around, run around, run around in these khandhas and can’t … 
  16. Train Hopping
     … And when you’re angry, who’s suffering right now from your anger? You are. Do you want to suffer from that? Do you really wish yourself ill, that you’re willing to waste so much of your life giving in to anger and then doing the stupid things that people tend to do under the power of anger? As the Buddha says at … 
  17. The Wisdom of Tenacity
     … You’re following the task of abandoning the cause of suffering—in other words, your tendency to create enemies in your mind, ideas, urges, narratives, that really go against your own best interests—so to stitch those needs together is not your duty right now. It’s not one of your tasks. Learn to deconstruct it, to let it go. As for what is … 
  18. For Goodness’ Sake
     … In other words, something inside you wants to do something unskillful, and you give in, but that particular defilement is not the one that’s going to suffer. You’re the one that’s going to suffer. So you have to see the value of acting in such a way that you can look back on your actions and realize that nobody was harmed … 
  19. Working Hypotheses
     … If you realize that if your happiness depends on people’s suffering, they’re not going to stand for it. They’ll do what they can to end it. And so you want a happiness that doesn’t harm anyone. And you that find in order to find that happiness you have to be generous, you have to be virtuous, all of which are … 
  20. Bare vs. Appropriate Attention
     … The path is meant to give you a lot of help in standing up to the pain, whether it’s physical pain or mental pain, and being able to sit with it but not suffer from it—to analyze it, to comprehend it. In other words, to exercise the skills that are appropriate for four noble truths. This is why the Buddha taught the … 
  21. Skills for Dying Well
     … These are the big three types of craving that the Buddha said lead to suffering. Now, they lead to suffering not only at the moment of death, but also in daily life. So if you want to get some control over this process at death, you have to gain some control over it here and now. For that, you have to meditate. Look what … 
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