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  2. Defeatism? - Anything But
     … And a lot of them concerned maintaining proper form. Even if you don’t have a lot of time to practice, make sure that when you do practice, you maintain proper form. And that you be really observant about what’s getting results and what’s not. So here, proper form is keeping the mind with the breath; keeping yourself centered here with a … 
  3. All for the Sake of Freedom
     … All five of these things—form, feelings, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness—are aggregates. Even when they form a state of concentration, they, too, are inconstant, stressful, and not self. And when the mind is really ready, it can then let go of all these things. At the same time, it lets go of those three perceptions, too, so that awakening to the truth involves transcending … 
  4. Open Are the Doors to the Deathless
     … You have form, which is the form of the body, and also the form of things outside you can feed on. Feelings: There’s the feeling of the pain that comes with hunger and the feeling of pleasure you’re looking for as you try to assuage that hunger. Perceptions: the labels that tell you, “This is food. This is not food.” Thought constructs … 
  5. Skillful Fear
     … The chant we had just now about the different forms of blessing: They’re all forms of right action and right thinking, because the word mangala means not only blessing but also protection. It’s good to look at the list. It gives you ideas of which areas in your life where your actions are unskillful are still leaving you unprotected, so that you … 
  6. Simple & Basic
     … He says that the knowledge is a strengthened form of mindfulness; the vision, a strengthened form of alertness. These two qualities are the starting point for everything else. The basic Dhamma textbook that’s used to teach monks and novices in Thailand is made out of lists, starting with lists of twos, lists of threes, fours, fives. And the very first list, in the … 
  7. Large Perspective, Small Focus
     … So you look at the suffering, try to identify it, and as the Buddha said, it’s just aggregates, which are just activities of the mind—there’s form, feeling, perception, fabrication, consciousness. And it’s not just the aggregates themselves, there’s aggregates plus clinging, the way we cling to these things. What are you clinging to? Is it a particular idea about … 
  8. The Psychology of Harmlessness
     … His values come in the form of four noble truths. Suffering is clinging to five aggregates. It’s caused by craving. You can put an end to it by putting an end to the craving. And the way you do that is through the noble eightfold path. Those are the four truths, the basic truths that the Buddha teaches. They carry duties—they have … 
  9. Practicing from Gratitude
     … After all, these are forms of goodness that don’t have limitations; they’re forms of happiness that don’t create borders and boundaries. If your happiness depends on material gain, status, or praise, those are things that, when you gain them, someone else loses them, and that creates a boundary right there. But generosity, virtue, concentration, discernment, the release of the mind: Nobody … 
  10. Hold a Mirror to Your Mind
     … If you reflect on that, you’ll learn an awful lot about all the aggregates, because wherever there’s pain, there’s going to be the issue of the form of the body. Is the form of the body the same as the pain? Well, no. The form of the body is made out of the elements or properties of earth, water, wind, and … 
  11. The Power of Perception
     … You begin to see in action what the Buddha was talking about, which is that if you’re going to have an actual perception, an actual feeling of the form of the body, or the feeling tones of pleasure or pain, you have to fabricate them from the raw material coming from your past. These things exist in a potential form, coming in from … 
  12. Conceit Defanged
     … Take form, for example: your body. You can either identify yourself as being the body, or you can identify yourself as being the owner of the body. You can have a sense that you are in the body or that the body’s in you. With the last one, you can have an infinite sense of self—a cosmic sense of self—within which … 
  13. Challenges
     … The pleasure of what they call form, i.e. the body as you sense it from within, is a higher form of pleasure than the pleasure of sensuality: the pleasures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile sensations. The pleasure of form is something is totally independent of things outside. To appreciate it, the mind has to be still. This is why it’s a … 
  14. Attention & Intention
     … The who concerned the issue of whether, in forming their views, they paid attention to the teachings of the noble ones. This pairing of attention and intention runs very deep throughout the whole teaching. Attention basically comes down to paying attention not only to what you believe is true, but also to what you believe is important to know about, what’s important to … 
  15. Things as They’ve Come to Be
     … A little stirring forms and you can tease it out, un-form it, zap it. If you’re not quick to zap it, the mind will identify it as a thought about this or that, and then you create a whole thought-world based on the way you labeled the stirring. The best way to see the stages in how that happens is to … 
  16. Feeding on Right Resolve
     … The most important forms of nourishment for the mind, though, are your intentions: The way you feed the mind through your intentions is what makes the difference between having a healthy mind and an unhealthy mind. Health food for the mind comes in the form of right resolve—one of the factors of the path. You resolve on renunciation, resolve on non-ill will … 
  17. Genuine Satisfaction
     … Right view is what makes a difference between actions that form a wrong path and those that form a right path for the end of suffering. So try to get in touch with your hungers. It was hunger that drove you to be born here in the first place. You couldn’t stay where you were before, so you set out looking for another … 
  18. The Open Committee
     … Even in situations that seem very far away from meditation, you find you’ve got to maintain your proper form. There’s a book on swimming technique that says even when you let up in your practice, the important thing is that you maintain good form all the time. It’s the same with the mind. These rules of parliamentary procedure have to be … 
  19. Goodwill as Restraint
    Goodwill as Restraint July 25, 2015 There’s a passage where the Buddha talks about the development of goodwill—and by implication all the other sublime attitudes—as a form of restraint. We don’t usually think about goodwill in those terms. We think of it more as an opening of the heart, letting all its natural goodness come pouring out. But then, of … 
  20. The Fires of Sensuality
     … It helps the mind be more inclined to get into concentration, and then the concentration helps provide you with an alternative form of pleasure. After all, if you’re going to drop one form of pleasure, you have to find another one to take its place. This is why the pleasure of fully inhabiting the form of your body, which is a higher level … 
  21. Building Concentration
     … trying to create a state of concentration, noting what works, what doesn’t work, so that you can see how a state of becoming gets formed in the mind. The same applies for distractions. You can simply follow the distractions but, again, you won’t really know them that well. It’s when you fight against them—that’s when you know them. As … 
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