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  2. The Four Noble Truths from Within
     … You learn how to use his concepts so that the way you deal with events coming from within gets more and more skillful, becomes a path to something that’s not fabricated at all. The texts talk about touching the Dhamma with the body, or seeing the Dhamma with the body. This is where you see it and touch it. It’s not as … 
  3. Victory over Death
     … And in growing together, they become strong. To get to know your mind, it’s good to do things that you know are good—like being generous and being virtuous—because then the mind is more open to itself, the heart is more open to itself. You see what’s going on. On the one hand, you have a sense of your own worth … 
  4. Lessons of Right Resolve
     … These are all lessons from the practice of right resolve that come back and augment your right view, which becomes the right view that’s based on practice, based on developing good qualities of the mind. Right view interacts with all the factors of the path in this way. It provides them with the rationale, and then they provide it with more detailed understanding … 
  5. The Noble Truths Come First
     … If I let go of the peel now and held the banana flesh in my hand, it’d become mush.” So you have some passion for your practice as you try, at the same time, to develop dispassion for things that would pull you away. You apply the three perceptions wherever you need to develop that sense of dispassion. When the path is fully … 
  6. To Be Debt Free
     … to become more mindful, more alert, more discerning in what’s going on inside your own mind, more discerning in seeing what your actions actually are, seeing your intentions for what they are, and seeing the results of acting on those intentions. This is how you put the Dhamma to the test. This means that to find the truth, you have to be true … 
  7. The World Does Not Endure
     … But none of those was true in the case of this monk. “So,” he asked the young monk, “Why did you go forth? Why did you become a monk?” And the monk answered with these Dhamma summaries. The first one: “The world is swept away. It does not endure.” He illustrated that point with a question to the king, “When you were young, were … 
  8. See Yourself as Active Verbs
     … How do you get these things to stay together so that breath and mind are acting in concert? That’s the skill we’re trying to develop right now, because when they act together we become more sensitive to them. It’s as if the mind had lots of little minds, and they’re all headed out in different directions. They don’t know … 
  9. How to Think about Death
     … We forget to look at the state of mind that gets developed as we’re hungering after those sensual pleasures, what kind of person we become, totally wrapped up in things that keep slipping through our fingers. We don’t see how the pursuit of these pleasures is shaping us. As the Buddha said, even if we had showers of gold coins it wouldn … 
  10. The Power of Intention
     … But as you meditate, you become more conscious of how you’re shaping your present experience, and how your intentions really do make a difference. When you bring knowledge to these processes, they can form the path—the path to the end of suffering; the path to the deathless; the path to things that lie beyond intention. By training your intentions, you can take … 
  11. Investment Strategies
     … That way, bit by bit, by bit, as he says, you become a millionaire with a coconut orchard. And so discernment is what allows you to look at what pleasures life offers and realize which are the feathers, stones, and shells, and which ones are genuine money. Which ones are coconuts that you can plant and which ones will grow and what pleasures are … 
  12. Reclaiming the Breath
    We focus on the breath while we meditate as a way of reclaiming the breath for ourselves, because all too often it’s taken over by anger or fear, and the breath becomes our enemy. It’s uncomfortable when you’re angry. It’s uncomfortable when you’re afraid. Any unskillful quality coming up in the mind that moves into the body does so … 
  13. Clearing a Space
     … When events come and you’re not ready to deal with them, but you’ve got to deal with them, what are you going to do? If you’re up for that kind of challenge, then the practice really develops, really does become an adventure in the mind, something that makes you grow in ways you would have never imagined.
  14. A Path of Aggregates
     … You become a slave to whatever is out there. But the Buddha’s saying No, you have to have a view of the world where your actions will shape your experience. So focus lots of attention on your intentions, your actions: what you think, what you do, what you say. That’s all part of right view. Then there’s right view about the … 
  15. The Thinking Heart
     … This is the part where, as Ajaan Mun said, all the four noble truths become one, with one duty: Let go through dispassion. In the letting go, you finally get to that noble goal—not the true statement about the goal, but the true experience of the goal itself. That’s where the noble truths take you. And that’s the point where both … 
  16. Four Determinations
     … You’ve become sober after having been intoxicated. And you get there, you grow up, by using your discernment, by being true, by letting go, and by training only for calm. Give those determinations top priority—and see how far they can take you.
  17. Matters of Life & Death
     … It becomes what they call your vihāra-dhamma, a home for the mind. After all, this body that you’re living in right now can’t be your home forever. We get used to it, thinking, “This is me, this is mine.” But there will come a time you get tired of just carrying it around. A couple of weeks back during the Saturday … 
  18. Right Effort
     … This way the desire becomes a healthy desire. It takes this massive task of reaching awakening and breaks it down into manageable bits. You work at all the various skills you need as a meditator, trying to figure out how to get the mind to settle down when it’s angry, how to get it to settle down when it’s lazy, how to … 
  19. Understanding Through Developing
     … In the same way, the mind begins to seize up if it doesn’t get any refreshment from meditation, if it becomes too much of a chore. As you get the mind to settle down, you learn a lot about it—you learn that you need to have something to focus on and you’re going to have to talk to yourself to stay … 
  20. Desire Is Part of the Path
     … Your mind becomes an echo chamber of bad ideas, unskillful ideas, and they reinforce one another. So you’ve got to learn how to get some control over your thinking. Give it something simple to focus on, something that gives you a sense of well-being. As for any thoughts that would go in any other direction, you subdue them, as the Buddha said … 
  21. Friends Inside & Out
     … After all, these external friends tend to become internal voices in your mind. And for most of us, who’s our internal voice? Who’s our internal friend? The Buddha said, most of us go around with craving as our companion. So where is our companion leading us? Hopefully at the present moment our craving is focused on doing something skillful: training the mind … 
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