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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. Head & Heart
     … You begin to see around a lot of the subterfuges that your unskillful mind states have used in order to maintain control over the mind. And you can begin to affect a revolution. You can overthrow them. The most important thing is that you don’t identify with them. Just because a thought happens to come into your mind doesn’t mean that it … 
  7. A Blameless Happiness
     … But there’s some activity in the mind that’s engaged in that pain, that’s delighting in it, that’s making inroads into your mind. Or in Ajaan Maha Boowa’s phrase, “It’s making a bridge into the mind, from the physical pain to the mental pain.” Part of that delight, however, may be simply the fact that you delight in having … 
  8. Victory in Battle
    Unexcelled victory in battle—that’s one of the Buddha’s names for the noble eightfold path, and it’s good to keep that in mind. All too often, Dhamma practice is viewed as simple acceptance. You basically give up on any kind of battle and say, “Well, things are just going to pass away. They’re inconstant, impermanent. There’s nothing out there … 
  9. To Comprehend Suffering
     … The mind in concentration can see them. The mind out of concentration can’t see them in that way. Once the mind gets settled down and you encounter a pain someplace in the body or a feeling of dis-ease in the mind, learn how to take it apart in terms of these raw materials. This way, when you cut suffering down to size … 
  10. Alone & with Others
     … They’re there to do something to the mind. So you want to see: What do they do? What do they help you let go? And when you’ve let go, what happens next? Does the mind jump in and build a lot of pride around it? Or is there a string of letting goes? This ability to hold back judgment and be a … 
  11. The Mind Well Trained
  12. Jewels in the Mind
  13. Focus Strengthens the Mind
  14. Feeding Your Own Mind
  15. Discernment Purifies the Mind
  16. Diseases of the Mind
  17. Simple vs. Right Mindfulness
  18. NR Mindfulness as Protection
  19. Reading the Body & Mind
  20. Developed in Body & Mind
  21. Humane Mind, Intelligent Heart
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