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  2. Wilderness Mind
  3. Mindfulness & Alertness
  4. Strengthening Mindfulness
  5. Wandering Mind
  6. Heightened Mind
  7. Heedful & Mindful
  8. Mindfulness & Discernment
  9. Basic Mindfulness
  10. Seclusion
    When the mind begins to settle down, it gives rise to a sense of ease. And the ease, the texts say, comes from seclusion. So what kind of seclusion are they talking about? To begin with, there’s physical seclusion. You’re not talking to anybody else right now. You’re not interacting with other people. All the burdens of interacting with other people … 
  11. Patience & Hope
     … And where do your actions come from? From the mind. So skill in your words and deeds has to come from skill in the mind—which is what meditation is all about. We’re developing the skills of mindfulness, alertness, and ardency; the skills of concentration and discernment, that will allow us not to be overcome by the results of past actions, and to … 
  12. The Dhamma Mirror
     … You try to do the two of them together, because where are you going to learn insight? From getting the mind still. After all, “insight,” as far as the Buddha was concerned, was not a technique, it was a quality of mind that you’re trying to develop. You don’t wait until your concentration gets really strong, and you don’t wait until … 
  13. Four Determinations
     … This test will make demands in terms of how much mindfulness you develop, how much alertness you develop, and how much ardency. When Ajaan Lee discusses those three qualities that you bring to mindfulness practice, when the question comes as to which of them embodies discernment, he says it’s the ardency. Again, this would be another meaning for not neglecting discernment—that you … 
  14. Large-hearted Equanimity
     … As I said, even the Buddha couldn’t control the minds of the people who listened to him. But he could learn how to gain control over his own mind. That’s where our efforts are best focused, because when our minds are under control, we’re not inflicting our greed, aversion, and delusion on anyone else. If we see that we can be … 
  15. Determination
     … We’re developing all kinds of good qualities of the mind. So you can look at your whole life as an opportunity to practice. This doesn’t mean that you just try to be mindful all the time or alert or aware all the time. There are many other qualities you’ve got to develop, too. One of the lists that’s useful to … 
  16. Stay Principled
    When we practice concentration or mindfulness, we tend spend a lot of time focusing on the technique: where to focus the mind, how to stay with the point of your focus or the theme of the meditation; how to work with it so that the mind can begin to settle down and stay settled down. There are even skills techniques how to leave meditation … 
  17. Thinking & Evaluating
     … When, as right now, you’re trying to get the mind quiet, they’re not going to be helpful, because they’re going to pull away from what you’re trying to do here—at least what part of the mind is trying to do. What this means is that the level of thinking you have to do to get the mind into right … 
  18. Three Recollections
    One of the basic principles of getting the mind into concentration is that you have to gladden it first. There are lots of ways of doing this. Sometimes just thinking about doing the concentration is enough to get you glad. You have an opportunity to sit here with your eyes closed, and with no other responsibilities right now. You don’t have to deal … 
  19. Heightening the Mind
  20. Changing Your Mind
  21. Healing the Mind
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