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- A Recipe for Concentration
- The World of Concentration
- Discernment to Foster Concentration
- The Pleasure of Concentration
- The Gift of Concentration
- Breath Meditation: The Fourth Tetrad… So the concentration and the ability to fight these things off go together. In other words, you have to fight them off to get the mind concentrated, and the better your concentration gets, the more useful it is in fighting them off. The stronger your concentration, the more constant it becomes. That makes it easier to see the subtle inconstancy of other things. You …
- No Resistance… Once you can stick with that perception, your concentration gets a lot stronger. And the ability to stick with a single perception like that will help you get into the more and more refined states of concentration. As the movement of breath begins to calm down, and even your sense of the shape of the body begins to calm down and dissolve into little …
- Directing & Not Directing the Mind… Well, that’s not how the Buddha taught either concentration or mindfulness. Concentration, remember, is full-body awareness. It’s actually quite broad. Concentration on goodwill extends not only through the body, but out in all directions to all beings. And it’s both concentration and a kind of mindfulness. As for mindfulness practice, the Buddha calls it a kind of concentration, which you …
- Three Levels of Concentration, The
- What You Learn from Concentration
- Trust in Concentration for Now
- Right Speech in Right Concentration
- Ardent with Respect for Concentration
- Concentration Work… It gets more subtle, and the sense of well-being that comes with the concentration gets more solid over time. Sometimes there’s the temptation just to say, “Well, this is good enough.” But if you’re seriously concerned about any possibility for the mind to lie to itself and to deceive itself, or any possibility that the concentration might start falling apart, you …
- Complexities of the Mind… And the development of discernment and the development of concentration have to go hand-in-hand, just as a soldier can’t fight without food, but simply eating the food is not going to win the battle. In the same way, you can’t really practice without concentration, yet the concentration, on its own, is not going to win the battle. You need both …
- A Well-Thatched Roof… There may be a slight attachment to the pleasure of concentration, even a strong attachment, but it’s a healthy attachment. You sometimes hear warnings about the dangers of concentration, but the danger of concentration lies in wrong concentration: concentration devoid of mindfulness, concentration devoid of alertness, concentration based on ulterior motives—to exert power over others, to win their respect—or wrong view …
- The Triple Training… A lot of people, when they’re concentrated, are concentrated through lust, or through anger, or through greed or fear. They get obsessed with these defilements, and their minds can hold on to them for a long time. But that’s not the kind of concentration we want. The Buddha said that right concentration starts when you let go of unskillful qualities: everything from …
- Don't Fear the Pleasure of Concentration
- Mindfulness & Perception… It develops in the direction of getting stronger and more refined concentration, until the insight comes, not simply in learning how to get the mind to meditate, or learning how to get the mind to settle down into the meditation, but also learning how to gain insight while you’re in concentration. As Ajaan Fuang used to say, there comes a point when you …
- Think of the Consequences… As the Buddha said, have some respect for concentration, respect for the fact that this may take time, but it’s worthwhile. And even if you find it easy to get the mind into concentration, you still have to stick with it for long periods of time so that the mind will develop the sense of stability, the sense of well-being inside where …
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