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  2. Mindfulness 2.0 (Guided Meditation)
  3. Just Rightness
     … That’s what right effort is all about, abandoning not only things outside but also things in the mind. You bring your mindfulness to an awareness of the body right here in and of itself, and, using that as your object, you try to develop right concentration, the kind of concentration that’s balanced, that allows for alertness, that allows for mindfulness to be … 
  4. Still
    As you begin to settle in, make a survey of the body and make a survey of your mind. In terms of the body, make sure that everything is balanced. You’re not leaning forward, back, left, right. You’re facing straight ahead. You relax the different joints. You might start at the top of the head and go down, down, down, down, down … 
  5. A New Framework
     … You’ve got to look at your mind in the same way. You’re working for the survival of your mind, so that it doesn’t create problems and suffering for itself. If you’re content to muddle along, nothing much is going to change. You have to aim high. You have to be focused. You have to be aggressive. The terms the Buddha … 
  6. Meticulousness
     … Ajaan Fuang—who was able to read people’s minds, I was convinced— commented one time that it’s not the case that when you know how to read people’s minds, you know what to say to them. When you’re looking at someone’s mind from the outside, you don’t see what it looks like from the inside. So you’re … 
  7. The Power of Intention
     … Your mind picked up its ideas. If it didn’t have the germ of its own ignorance inside, it wouldn’t pick up ignorant ideas. So you have to keep looking back into the mind: your mind as you experience it from within, your body as you experience it from within. That’s where the suffering is felt, but that’s where it’s … 
  8. Intoxication
    When we hear the word “intoxication,” we usually think of what happens to the body and the mind when you put alcohol or drugs in the body. But as the Buddha said, intoxication goes deeper than that. Actually, we’re already intoxicated. This is the normal nature of human beings, the normal nature of all beings, basically. We’re intoxicated with youth, intoxicated with … 
  9. Even Shame Can Be Skillful
     … People sometimes ask, how are you going to gain any insight focusing on the breath? It’s right here in the maintaining that you begin to see the mind, see the movements of the mind, because you’re giving yourself a good standard against which to measure things. Otherwise, the mind moves around, and because everything is moving, it’s like being in the … 
  10. Emptiness
     … They’re events in the mind. As far as the meditation is concerned, they’re distractions, so you can put them aside. This is one of the meanings of the word emptiness. In other words, you empty the mind of all of its philosophical speculations, you empty the mind of its narratives, leaving just the narrative of what you’re doing right now: You … 
  11. The Treasure Hunt
     … When you focus the mind, you know you’re focusing the mind. When the mind settles down, you know it’s settling down. When the mind wanders off, you know it’s wandering off. These are things you really know here and now. When you experience suffering, you know. When you experience a lack of suffering, you know. So those are the two issues … 
  12. Protective Meditations
     … So you want to focus on what you can do right now, here with your mind, to protect yourself from the biggest danger, which is that you might act on unskillful intentions. The list of guardian meditations is four: recollection of the Buddha, goodwill, contemplation of the unattractiveness of the body, and mindfulness of death. It sounds like a rather random collection and, in … 
  13. The Power of Truth
     … When the Buddha taught mindfulness and jhana, he didn’t really separate the two drastically. He described the basic formula for mindfulness practice and then he talked about developing it as a form of jhana: Focus in the body in and of itself—ardent, alert, and mindful—putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. That’s the formula for mindfulness. Then … 
  14. Treasures Beyond Death
     … As the Buddha said, all skillful qualities of the mind come from being heedful. He never said the mind was inherently good or inherently bad. If you think your mind is inherently good, you tend to get complacent: Any ideas that come up in the meditation have got to be good. That belief can lead you far, far astray. If you believe you’re … 
  15. Training for Dispassion
     … Sometimes that’s interpreted as meaning that the mind is innately pure, but the Buddha never said that. He says it’s because the mind is luminous that it can be trained—in other words, you can train your own mind because you can watch what’s going on in your mind. You can see what’s going on in your mind in terms … 
  16. NR The Mind's Many Potentials
  17. Constructing a Home for the Mind
  18. A Mind Like Earth(med-fi)
  19. The Quick Reversal of the Mind
  20. A User Manual for the Mind
  21. Mindfulness in the Driver's Seat
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