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  2. Cooking the Mind
  3. A 100% Mind
  4. Heightened Mind (outdoors)
  5. Unburden the Mind
  6. Taming the Mind
  7. Read Your Mind
  8. A Tilted Mind
  9. Gladdening the Mind
  10. Survey Your Mind
  11. More than Mindfulness
  12. Ardent, Alert, & Mindful
  13. Mind the Gap
  14. A Bigger Mind
  15. Sensuality
     … The mind settles down and is still for a minute, and then you suddenly think about the people who have harmed you, the injustices you’ve been subject to. Even though it’s not a pleasant thing to think about, the mind feeds, feeds, feeds on these things, perhaps out of a sense of self-justification. After all, that person really did do those … 
  16. Fighting the Defilements
     … But first give the mind work to do—like going through the parts of the body, getting up, walking around, washing your face, looking up at the stars if it’s at night, imagining a bright light in front of you. You try these various techniques to see if it’s simply a subterfuge of the mind, the mind’s way of avoiding its … 
  17. Just This Breath
     … You may have experience from the past of how long it takes for the mind to settle down. But by now you should have a sense of where the mind goes when it settles down. Why can’t you go there right now? Once you’re there with the breath, and you can get your balance, try to maintain balance. Again, it’s just … 
  18. Don’t Be Afraid of Mistakes
    When we talk about the committee of the mind, or when Ajaan Lee talks about all the various consciousnesses that may be hovering around your body, or when the Buddha talks about your thoughts being not-self, the purpose is to get some distance from those thoughts. But it doesn’t mean you have to distrust them. It simply means that you want to … 
  19. Patience
     … If the mind is going to get into any dialogue, engage in a dialogue about how the breath feels right now, reminding yourself to stay with breath, catching the mind when it’s going to slip off. There’s a lot of work to do, even when you try to keep it simple, just keeping the mind with the breath. As for whether the … 
  20. Three Weapons
     … The final weapon is discernment, where you understand more and more about what’s going on in the mind through what you’ve learned through concentration. Getting the mind to settle down, you can see more clearly where the mind creates its problems—problems that it doesn’t have to create at all—and you can learn how to undo them, untangle them, get … 
  21. A Handful of Leaves
     … It enables us to see that there’s an area of the mind that suffers and also an area of the mind that doesn’t: an area that can be aware of the suffering but doesn’t have to take it on. It’s not burdened by it. You need a lot of discernment to see that. The discernment, in turn, requires this concentration … 
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