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  2. Training the Mind Not to Suffer
  3. The Mind Well Trained Brings Happiness
  4. Training the Heart, Training the Mind
  5. A Mind Bigger Than the World
  6. Four Steps for the Heart & Mind
  7. More than a Slice of Mindfulness
  8. Watch Your Mind Whenever You Can
  9. True Freedom of Speech
     … Always keep the larger picture in mind before you open your mouth. Of course, this is a way of training the mind. It’s what the Buddha calls verbal fabrication: When you think about things and then you comment on them in the mind, it’ll very quickly come out in your speech outside. So you’re training your directed thoughts, you’re training … 
  10. It’s All about Action
     … It’s what your mind does with them in the present: That’s the cause. So you’re looking at the mind in action. Your meditation is a form of karma and at the same time it allows you to look directly at karma as you’re doing it. You begin to see where the ways you intend to focus on the breath are … 
  11. Generosity of Spirit
    Sometimes it may seem like a very selfish and self-centered thing we’re doing here, trying to get the mind into concentration, have a sense of ease and well-being inside. And although it is centered in yourself, it’s not self-centered in a selfish way. After all, the more well-being you can find inside, the less you feel oppressed by … 
  12. A Home for the Mind (med-fi)
  13. The Care & Feeding of the Mind (outdoors)
  14. A Mind that's Not Ill (outdoors)
  15. Skills of Mindfulness, Skills of the Breath
  16. The Mind on Its Own Two Feet
  17. The Mind Likes to Lie to Itself
  18. The Meaning of Insight
     … Each time the question comes up and there’s a little stirring of a thought in the mind, choose to come back to the breath. Let the thought go, unless it’s a thought related to the breath and helpful for getting the mind to settle down. The mind is always making choices, both when you’re meditating and when you’re not. In … 
  19. The Limits of Control
     … You find that you can create a sense of greater constancy than you have in any other way, a greater pleasure than you’ve experienced for many other things, greater control over your mind. This is not only to give the mind a pleasant dwelling place, but also to develop more mindfulness and more discernment. It’s easier to be mindful when your sense … 
  20. A Larger Perspective
     … This is why the Buddha says that mindfulness practice can focus both internally and externally. And remember here that “mindfulness” means keeping something in mind. Being mindful of somebody else’s breath, say, is not a matter of sitting next to them and listening to their breath. It’s keeping in mind the fact that we all have breath. The same with mindfulness of … 
  21. The Noble Path to Happiness
    The mind is bound to chatter, so if you’re doing meditation, have it chatter about the breath. What should it say? “Just focus on the breath. Be alert to the breath. Know when it’s coming in; know when it’s going out. Let it be comfortable. Don’t try to force the breath or to put yourself into a trance.” What you … 
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