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  2. Intent
     … You have to realize that goodwill doesn’t mean, “Hey, may everybody be happy just as they are.” The right attitude is to understand that for other people to be happy, they’re going to have to become skillful in their behavior. And that’s something you can wish for anybody, no matter how bad they’ve been in the past. This means that … 
  3. Filling in the Buddha’s Outline
     … Are they good enough? If you’re not sure, just keep doing what you’re doing until the results becomes clear. If they’re not right, then you can change. This is how your discernment develops. Sometimes you hear that tranquility meditation is one thing and insight meditation is something else, but the Buddha never taught it that way. He said to do concentration … 
  4. Right View
     … Once the framework is in place, then it can be used in making your understanding more and more precise, more and more helpful, more and more productive, until finally it becomes that kind of action that leads to the end of action. This is how right view comes first. It gets you thinking and questioning in the right way. When you get to the … 
  5. The Language of the Heart (1)
     … So keep that motivation in mind, and keep that willingness to learn in mind, so that when you take in the language of the heart and it becomes the language of your heart, it doesn’t stop with just the words—it gets to the things that the words are pointing to, their whole purpose. There’s that word attha in Pali—which is … 
  6. How Much Concentration Is Enough?
     … The pain, say, of a good massage, because you know that it’s meant to cure, actually becomes pleasant. We can do it the other way around as well. We can turn certain pleasures into pains. There’s a potential there, and we’ve learned how to work with it in one way or another. But when we’re working with the meditation, we … 
  7. Dimensions of Right Effort
     … That way, you can become our own self-corrector and keep heading forward until you finally get to the goal.
  8. Self-starting
     … That’s how you become self-reliant on the path. You strengthen the good members of the committee in the mind, and you learn how to sidestep the unskillful ones. Win them over if you can, and exile the ones you can’t. That way, you find when you wake up in the morning, you’ve got a good group of people to wake … 
  9. Jhāna & Discernment
     … Those desires then become a nucleus around which your sense of you in a world of experience begins to develop. That’s how we were born to begin with. You were about to die, and an image came into your mind about where you might possibly go. There may have been lots of options you could have gone for, and one of them was … 
  10. Fabricated Path, Unfabricated Goal
     … There must be something better.” It was his ability to see problems where no one else saw them that enabled him to become the Buddha. This is something that each of us has to do. We have to see problems where we never saw them before. Which is why, whatever comes up, you learn to apply those questions of appropriate attention and watch very … 
  11. The First Noble Truth
     … It’s true, it’s right for that purpose, but if you grab onto it in the wrong way, for purposes other than following the path, then it immediately becomes a burden. The view may be right, but you’re wrong. So you have to learn how to use right view about issues around suffering as a tool for the right purpose. The same … 
  12. Fabrication at the Breath
     … You become more sensitive. So the understanding comes from learning how to get the mind under control with a sense of real rapture and refreshment here. The Buddha didn’t say “Just sit here and watch whatever comes up,” without giving you a foundation for watching. The foundation comes from that sense of well-being that comes from knowing how to deal with the … 
  13. The Power of Your Actions
     … Meanwhile, they’ve developed some bad qualities as they’ve become careless. They have to start all over again. So it’s good that you contemplate what the Buddha has to say about how to find strength for the mind, so that it sees the power of its actions, and can use that power for the best possible purpose, which is to go beyond … 
  14. Counter-cultural Values
     … The American government was afraid that Thailand was going to become the next Vietnam, so they sent a lot of sociologists to study Thai values, Thai village life. The sociologists came back with the conclusion that Buddhism was not really good for a capitalistic economy because it taught contentment. Word went out from the Thai government to the monks around the country: Stop teaching … 
  15. Contemplation of the Body
     … We chant the 32 parts of the body so often that the chant has become almost automatic. You can do it without even thinking about what you’re saying, so stop and focus on each of the 32 parts, one by one. Stop and visualize each one as you go down the list. Start with hair of the head, hair of the body, nails … 
  16. Wisdom for Dummies
     … So why would you want to lay claim to it as you or yours? In these ways, these three perceptions help to become your principles for judging what’s working and what’s not. If it’s inconstant, it’s not long-term; it’s stressful. If it’s stressful, it’s not happiness. And if it’s not happiness, you can’t hold … 
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