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  2. Shoulds & Ideals
     … This way, all the shoulds and ideals, instead of being a burden, actually become a means to true happiness.
  3. Willing & Observing
     … The sensation of breathing at the nose becomes weaker, less perceptible. The rise and fall of the abdomen gets weaker and less perceptible, and suddenly find yourself hanging in space. If you haven’t already worked on developing a sense of the body as a whole, it’s very easy to lose your focus, lose your foundation. So you want to develop both sides … 
  4. Appropriate Attention
     … This is why appropriate attention is the most crucial factor in the practice, the approach that looks at all of this as a skill that you’re working on in the hopes of becoming more and more skillful in how you act, more and more skillful in how you evaluate the results of your actions, and how you learn from your mistakes. When you … 
  5. Fabricating Around Pain
     … And if something seems to work, then it becomes part of our repertoire for dealing with the world. But our standards for “what works” can often be pretty sloppy. And a lot of our tools can turn on us if we don’t use them well. These tools come in three types. There’s bodily fabrication, which is the way you breathe; verbal fabrication … 
  6. The Dhamma Wheel
     … We see that we can take these activities and turn them into states of becoming, where you identify something you want, and then you see what world that object is in. Then you go into that world. You take on an identity in that world. This applies both on a micro and a macro level. The micro level is thoughts you have in mind … 
  7. People Suffer from Their Thinking
     … Now that people have become wealthier, food is easier to get, jobs are easier to get, their thinking takes over and that makes them suffer. This is certainly true in spades about people in the modern world because so much in the modern world teaches us harmful ways of thinking. The mass media are predicated on the idea that you are lacking and you … 
  8. Walking Meditation: Stillness in Motion
     … In other words, you fully plant your mind in the object and become one with it. While you’re doing that, you can’t think analytically about what you’re doing at all. You’re totally focused on the one object, the one perception. You may adjust it a little here, a little there, but when you’ve done enough adjusting, you allow yourself … 
  9. The World Is Swept Away
     … Once they become part of your mind, a part of your heart, then they go with you wherever you go. No one can take them away from you. There was an incident in the life of Ajaan Mun when someone came to see him and asked him, “Can you separate a person’s virtue from that person’s heart and mind?” In other words … 
  10. The Best News in the World
     … If we accept his challenge, they can become possible in our lives. If we don’t accept his challenge, then we’re making them impossible. But there’s no good reason to do that. So don’t let the bad reasons overcome your mind.
  11. Lessons from Jhana
     … You become more a master of your own mind. This way, you can go through life with a lot more lightness. Otherwise, we burden ourselves immensely by the things we hold onto. We think that by holding onto them, they’re going to save us. But instead, they pull us down. So if you learn how to let go in the right way and … 
  12. Broad, Tall, & Deep
     … As they become more and more pleasurable and more and more connected, then further connections will develop, and then more connections and more, until you’ve got the whole body connected with a sense of ease. You’ll come to recognize for yourself the tone that feels easeful throughout the body, and you can go right there. At first it may not be very … 
  13. Wake Up from Addiction
     … It’s only when you’ve settled down with the breath for quite a while that you begin to be in a position where you can step back a little bit to really question and understand what you’re doing, so that it does become more of a skill. You begin to see patterns. And one of the patterns you begin to notice is … 
  14. Acceptance
     … The pleasure of the concentration becomes a form of strength you can develop inside. Based on that strength, you can strengthen your discernment, for the stillness and satisfaction of concentration enable you to perform the duties of discernment, starting with the ability to see clearly where suffering is arising and what’s arising with it. You notice: What are you doing when there’s … 
  15. The Raft of Concepts
     … Everything becomes more immediately felt. But that’s not why we’re here. You want to look deeper: What is it about intention that makes the difference in the present moment? Always look for that, because that’s where freedom is going to be found — in being sensitive to your intentions. When you’re totally sensitive to them and totally understand how they cause … 
  16. Feeding on Right Resolve
     … If we don’t care about their happiness, we get careless, and then when we’re careless in our actions, it becomes bad karma. So this is good food for the mind. Now, as I said, non-ill will means both goodwill and equanimity, because goodwill is something that can be developed as an unlimited attitude. This is one of the reasons why the … 
  17. Rebirth is Relevant
     … So the question becomes: How can we train the mind so that we don’t have to suffer from rebirth?—so at the very least we can handle the action of rebirth skillfully. Or even better, really skillfully, so that there’s no more birth and no more suffering. The Canon records the realizations that go through the mind of an arahant at the … 
  18. Why We Meditate
     … As we were children, of course, we depended on our parents, but as we grow up we have to become more self-reliant here. We tend to go way overboard as we try to find these things, causing a lot of harm to ourselves and to other people. This is the other big issue in the pursuit of happiness. If your happiness depends on … 
  19. Furnishing Your Home for the Mind
     … One nun talks about how she’d become a famous Dhamma teacher and then realized she had nothing inside. She realized how empty it was: all the fame and fortune that came from being a teacher. So she dropped it. Some of the monks and nuns talk about how they were ready to commit suicide. They were so upset about how their path of … 
  20. Toward Release
     … And you’ll find that instead of becoming poorer as you let things go, you’re actually a whole lot richer.
  21. Days Fly Past
     … In this way, the constant emphasis on looking at what you’re doing becomes less and less onerous, less and less of a burden, because you’ve got a stronger mind. And you’ve got a good place to keep it when it doesn’t have to be actively thinking about things, so that it’s not wasting its energy on frivolous matters. When … 
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