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  2. A Connoisseur of Concentration
  3. Showing Respect for Concentration
  4. The Uses of Concentration
  5. The Pleasure of Concentration
  6. The Pleasure of Concentration
  7. A Recipe for Concentration
  8. The World of Concentration
  9. Discernment to Foster Concentration
  10. The Pleasure of Concentration
  11. The Gift of Concentration
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. Three Levels of Concentration, The
  15. What You Learn from Concentration
  16. Trust in Concentration for Now
  17. Right Speech in Right Concentration
  18. Ardent with Respect for Concentration
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. Don't Fear the Pleasure of Concentration
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