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  2. Discernment Fosters Concentration
  3. Cherish Your Concentration
  4. Your Concentration Home
  5. Lessons from Concentration
  6. Concentration & Its Supports
  7. Why Practice Concentration
  8. Discernment Fosters Concentration
  9. Discernment Fosters Concentration
  10. Noble Priorities
    When the Buddha talks about how he discovered the path, he starts with right concentration. He’d been trying different methods for years, and nothing worked. He’d pretty much exhausted all the alternatives that were known in those days. Then he remembered a time from his childhood when he’d entered spontaneously into concentration, with a sense of ease, refreshment. He asked himself … 
  11. Breath Meditation: The Fourth Tetrad
     … So the concentration and the ability to fight these things off go together. In other words, you have to fight them off to get the mind concentrated, and the better your concentration gets, the more useful it is in fighting them off. The stronger your concentration, the more constant it becomes. That makes it easier to see the subtle inconstancy of other things. You … 
  12. No Resistance
     … Once you can stick with that perception, your concentration gets a lot stronger. And the ability to stick with a single perception like that will help you get into the more and more refined states of concentration. As the movement of breath begins to calm down, and even your sense of the shape of the body begins to calm down and dissolve into little … 
  13. Looking After Your Concentration
  14. A Connoisseur of Concentration
  15. Showing Respect for Concentration
  16. The Uses of Concentration
  17. The Pleasure of Concentration
  18. The Pleasure of Concentration
  19. A Recipe for Concentration
  20. The World of Concentration
  21. Discernment to Foster Concentration
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