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- Fangs in the Static… If it’s a really good world, you get really attached. Think about the devas living comfortably: All they have to do is think, and whatever they want appears. Can you imagine how spoiled they’re going to be? And how hard it will be for them when they fall? And when you take on any world, what is it made out of? It …
- The Buddha’s Map… If they didn’t have their pleasant side, we wouldn’t be attached to them. But for the sake of letting them go, you don’t focus on what you like about them. You focus primarily on what their drawbacks are—and in particular, the drawbacks of getting attached to them—and that’s where you bring in the perceptions of inconstancy, stress, and …
- Control… Then that teaching works inward, inward, inward until ultimately you can give up your attachment to your body. You give up your attachment to your feelings, thought constructs, perceptions, consciousness. Ajaan Maha Boowa once said that when you finally get to the end of the path, you look back and you see that it was the same principle all the way down the line …
- Worldly Effort… We all come with our attachments, we all come with our preconceived notions, hoping that we can hold on to this, hold on to that, so that we can have our cake and eat it, too. But it’s the nature of life, it’s the nature of causality, that you can’t find perfection within the causal system. Take the practice of concentration …
- Bringing Right resolve… He realizes that it’s not so much that we’re attached to sensory objects or sensory contact, as we are attached to our fascination with thinking about these things, planning these things, and then going over the sensual pleasures after they’re over. The mind can spend days, weeks, months, years, commenting to itself on this kind of stuff, whereas the pleasures themselves …
- Mud Houses… Wherever there’s attachment, there’s going to be a being. Attachment to what? The five aggregates: form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness. He illustrated his point with an analogy. He said it’s like little kids playing with mud houses. You might think of kids playing with sand castles. As long as the little kids are fascinated with the little mud houses, they …
- Investigative Work… Where is the step where the clinging comes in in a thought? How do you recognize it? It doesn’t come with labels attached. You have to notice: When this particular kind of thought comes in, what’s the response in the mind? When **that **kind of thought comes in, what’s the response in the mind? You have to be able to separate …
- Transparent Becoming… Some people say, “You want to practice concentration? Well, try not to have craving, try not to be attached.” But you’ve got to have craving; you’ve got to be attached if you’re going to have that focal point where the mind is going to stay, and be willing to stay, be happy to stay, to get pleasure out of staying. So …
- To Go Where You’ve Never Gone Before… So we try to feed the mind well; strengthen it, so that it can look into its attachments, look into its clingings and cravings, and figure out how to let them go. This goes very much against the grain, which is why we hold to the four noble truths as our guide, because they tell us: There is a cause for suffering, but it …
- Two Kinds of Middle… You can get attached to it, but it’s putting you in a position where you can see the attachment clearly and learn to let go. But notice that it’s off the continuum. It’s not halfway between sensual pleasure and sensual pain. It’s something of a different order entirely. And the way you relate to it is different as well. This …
- Serial Clinging Is Still Clinging… It’s not so much attached to the objects as it is to the planning, the fantasizing. And even there, the plans and the fantasies may change. Clinging to sensuality doesn’t mean that you hold permanently to one fantasy or one plan. It means you hold on to this or that activity long enough to feed on it. Then you go looking for …
- Your Committee of Addicts… Others are very attached to their views about the world. Others are very attached to ideas of what should and shouldn’t be done. This includes people who say, “Well, there are no shoulds,” or “There shouldn’t be any shoulds. People should be free to do whatever they want.” We have members like that in the mind. Then there are all the various …
- Purity of Heart… Technically, you can’t even call them beings anymore, because a being, as the Buddha said, is defined by where it’s attached, where it’s tied down, what it clings to. When there’s no attachment, when there’s no clinging, what’s left can’t be defined. That’s another way in which the path of arahants can’t be traced. It …
- The Will to Awaken… There are a lot of things that are really pleasurable, that society actually encourages you to look for, But the Buddha says, look, you’ve got to give them up as they lead to unhealthy attachments down the line. Your attachment to sensual pleasures and sensual desires: that’s the big one. Your attachment to thoughts about, plans about sensual pleasures. That’s what …
- Death Without Drama… your attachment to planning for sensual pleasures, which leads to fear that you’ll be deprived of the pleasures you’ve enjoyed. When we practice meditation, we’re learning how not to fall for these attachments. Regard them simply as hindrances coming up in the mind. No matter how insistent they may seem—that you really want a particular pleasure, that this is something …
- The Mind's Immune System… There is attachment to that state, but it’s not quite the same as the obsession you have for sensual objects. It actually builds up your resistance to those obsessions. As for the desire for Awakening, she says, “Even though it may be unpleasant to think about how far you have to go, or how much you want to be awakened and you’re …
- The Importance of Being Truthful… But it’s a useful place to be stuck, it’s a useful way to be attached—because if you’re not attached to this, you find yourself going back to your old habits. It’s like having new food to eat. There’s no way you’re going to give up your junk food unless you’ve got better food to eat. So …
- Observe Your Concentration… He analyzes that attachment to what seems to be deathless. Even though you have actually had an experience of the deathless, you cover it over with some very subtle, subtle levels of aggregates. So it may have been the case that the question, “Are the aggregates worthy of being called self?” was an option for people to become arahants simply because they could see …
- Fear… One is because they’re attached to the body. Another is because they’re attached to sensual pleasures. A third is that they don’t really understand the Dhamma, they haven’t resolved their doubts about the Dhamma. These are three things that can be cured only through meditation. The other reason for fearing death is when you know that you’ve harmed other …
- Dethinking Thinking… where your attachments are, why you’re attached. Think of those five steps the Buddha lays out for us to figure out: What’s the origination of the problem—where does it come from within the mind? How does the problem stop? How does it start up again? And why do you dig it up again—what’s the allure? Can you see the …
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