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2. Play AudioLove Me, Love My Defilements
    … You thought you were getting good nourishment but that was not the case. So you lose your desire to eat these things any more. The Buddha, in his compassion, sees other people suffering from the same misunderstandings he used to have, and so he shows us that these are defilements. They do obscure what we could actually see in the mind if we’d … 
3. Play AudioClose to the Heart
    … I hadn’t consciously thought that it was, but subconsciously, deep down inside, there was a feeling that it was alien, something from another culture. That night it became mine: my awareness of my mind, my awareness of things really deep inside. The Dhamma was no longer a foreign mold that I was trying to impose on the mind. It became a message pointing … 
4. Play AudioFreedom & Responsibility
    … The teacher is here to provide perspective, to help suggest opportunities or approaches you might not have thought of on your own—or that might have occurred to you only after a long time. But the basic work in administering the cure is your work. It requires a lot of honesty, a lot of patience: all the qualities that make you a reliable person … 
5. Play AudioYour Committee of Addicts
    … These are basically ways in which we put the aggregates together—our sense of our body, our feelings, our perceptions, our thought constructs, our acts of consciousness. We put them together into something that we actively hold on to. The Buddha’s great insight was that if you’re really serious about going beyond suffering, you can take the different things that you hold … 
6. Play AudioRight View from Right Effort
    … Sometimes you may see your sense of accomplishment just dissolving in front of your eyes, but that’s simply a sign that you’ve got to learn how to ramp up your efforts, go back, and look over what you thought you knew. You’re going to be learning many things over and over and over again. But there’s always a possibility that … 
7. Play AudioRefuge
    … There’s fabrication, your internal conversation about the breath, your directed thoughts and your evaluations of what’s going on; and then consciousness, which is aware of all these things. There you’ve got them all here, the five aggregates, and you turn them into the path. They become your home right now, a much more solid home than any other one you could … 
8. Play AudioStrong Against Anger & Fear
    … What are you going to do?” “What else can I do but focus on the practice of the Dhamma?” This is our refuge—it’s called the strength of conviction—realizing that the most important thing you can focus on is being skillful in your thoughts, skillful in your words, skillful in your deeds. You maintain that conviction, and you see that it’s … 
9. Play AudioSecluded from Sensuality
    … He didn’t gain awakening by indulging in sensual thoughts. He realized there was another alternative to pain—and he made it a central part of the path. You look at the factors for the path. Think back to when we chant them: The first two have to do with discernment, the next three have to do with virtue, and the last three have … 
10. Play AudioWhen Nothing’s Happening
     … When I read that, I thought to myself, “Well, I know the answer to that one. He told the student to look for a defilement. The student didn’t see the defilement, so the master showed him where it was.” Then I looked at the supposed answer. The answer was that the student was supposed to be looking for the Buddha nature inside, but … 
11. Play AudioA Valuable Gift
     … It’s not one of those gifts where if you have lots of thoughts then you have lots of gifts to give to others. It’s the type of gift where the less there is, the higher the value. Say you’ve got a durian, the fruit they grow around the area of Wat Dhammasathit. If the market is full of durian, your durian … 
12. Play AudioThe Buddha’s Currency
     … So always keep that thought in mind. As the Buddha said, recollection of your own virtue, recollection of your own generosity: These are things that give you energy when your energy begins to flag. They lift up your spirits when you spirits are down. You realize that you’re a person of worth, a person of wealth. So on days when the mind is … 
13. Play AudioThe Intelligent Heart
     … Then you can look at the things that otherwise would push you out, either pains in the body or uncomfortable thoughts that come up in the mind. When you develop this sense of space around them, you can watch them, you can step back from them, learn about where they’re coming from, see how the mind creates a lot of suffering around them … 
14. Play AudioThe Elephant Hunter
     … Everything else you know in life falls under the pattern of the dependent co-arising, where things that you see through the six senses, even things you directly experience through those senses, are colored by the perceptions you’ve had in the past, thoughts you’ve had in the past. So there’s always some bias in ordinary sense perceptions. But the awareness of … 
15. Play AudioIn Training
     … When the Buddha teaches his impersonal teachings—where he doesn’t talk about a person doing x in a particular place, but about different events in the mind influencing other events in the mind—it’s basically to help you step back from them and say, “Okay, I thought I was doing this, and as long as I felt that it was me doing … 
16. Play AudioSo Little Time
     … the world are the basic elements: earth, water, wind, fire. They had a few other elements as well, but the elements were the only things that existed. Actions were non-existent. Thoughts were non-existent. This also meant that there was no basis for precepts. As they said, when a knife went through somebody’s neck, it just went between the atoms, so there … 
17. Play AudioTo Comprehend Craving
     … You want to know them because the becomings on the large scale that take you from one life to the next start in the mind in these small-scale becomings as a thought-world appears. There’s usually some drive to go into it. Watch out for that drive. Try to nip it in the bud. You’ll find that the mind starts complaining … 
18. Play AudioDetermined to be Happy
     … But discernment also requires thoughts of goodwill, thinking about true happiness: What would truly make you happy? And what kind of happiness will last? One thing you have to think about is other people’s happiness, because if your happiness runs roughshod over theirs, they’re not going to stand for it. They’re going to do everything they can to destroy whatever happiness … 
19. Play AudioA Sense of Yourself
     … So he used that thought as a motivation. Every time he was getting lazy in his practice he would think about, “Where you’ve been is where you’re going to go if you keep on being lazy.” So you have to find what motivates you to practice, what gives more oomph to your practice. Because when you make a vow, you’re going … 
20. Play AudioLift Your Mind
     … One, you’re giving the mind a focal point, a theme to stick with, and then two, you’re putting aside all other thoughts. He describes the focal point as being focused on the body, in and of itself—how you experience the body right here, right now, and not in the context of the world. In other words, you’re not concerned about … 
21. Play AudioLook after Yourself Happily
     … The question is, How do you do it? How do you find your happiness? Because we also take into consideration that thought, “May all living beings look after themselves with ease.” We don’t want our search for happiness to get in the way of their true happiness. Now this sometimes may involve getting in the way of some things that they’d may … 
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