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- An Admirable Friend — In Memory of Luang Loong… developing mindfulness, concentration, discernment, persistence. Underlying all this is the conviction that this is really useful, this is really a worthwhile project: training the mind, realizing that the mind is the major factor in life, shaping your happiness and sorrow, your pleasure and pain. It needs to be trained so that its actions yield the happiness you want, a happiness that doesn’t harm …
- The World of the Body… As for the perfections, starting with generosity and going down the list—generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, good will, and equanimity—whatever we can do to develop these qualities, they give meaning to life, because they’re the things that will be left when we have to leave the body. So this world we have inside: We put it to use …
- Skillful in Everything… This list—desire, persistence, intent, and ingenuity—is called the bases of power, the bases of success. When you develop these qualities, you find not only that the things that you create are nicer but you’ve also got a nicer mind, a better mind, a mind better suited for meditation. This is why the great ajaans always paid so much attention to the …
- Nurturing Your Inner Adult… the faculties of conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. The word for faculty, indriya, is related to Indra, the king of the gods, the dominant deva. The implication is that you want these faculties to be dominant in your mind, you want them to have power. They’re your inner adults. So you use the breath to put them on top, to keep them …
- The Language of the Heart (2)… desire, persistence or “efforting,” and using your powers of judgment. The Buddha said that these are necessary for success in the practice. The only one of the bases of success that we still tend to follow is in intentness: that you have to pay attention. But then they say, “Well, there’s no such thing as success or not success. Everybody’s already awakened …
- The Bright Tunnel… The strengths of persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. Discernment is the one that keeps all the strengths strong, as you begin to take apart exactly where the clinging is, why it is. There are four kinds of clinging. You cling to sensual passion, you cling to views, you cling to set ways of doing things, and you cling, ultimately, to your sense of what …
- Introduction: Meditation as a Skill… So it behooves us to try to do this as skillfully as possible, to develop these qualities of mindfulness, alertness, persistence, discernment, and concentration. So we’ve got an hour to work directly on these skills. Try to make the most of it.
- Dangers Outside & In… And you develop persistence: You work on developing the good qualities that the Buddha said will lead to happiness and abandoning the unskillful ones that lead to unhappiness. You have to keep this in mind, so you’re mindful. Then you get the mind into concentration because the mind needs food, and if it doesn’t have the food of the pleasure of concentration …
- After the Fire… Then there’s persistence, which essentially is right effort, working at abandoning unskillful qualities and developing the more skillful ones, which can lead to an energized sense of rapture, fullness in body and mind. Those are the qualities that involve working, developing. Then there’s the side of the mind that you have to hold on to when everything else needs to be let …
- Looking for Happiness Inside… Sariputta, “Do you believe that by developing the five faculties of conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment that they lead to the Deathless?” And Sariputta says, “No, I don’t believe that. I know.” Try to get to the point where you can say that, too.
- Undividing the Mind… It means you have to use all of the strengths you have—the strength of conviction, the strength of persistence, mindfulness, concentration, discernment—to figure out: What is the appropriate right effort right now? How much effort? What kind of effort? That way you won’t feel the regret later on that maybe if you’d developed those strengths a little bit more, they …
- What Am I Becoming as Days & Nights Fly Past?… Some of them have to do with qualities that you develop within yourself, like arousing your persistence. But others have to do with how you interact with other people so that you’re not a burden on them. You can actually be a good friend to them—a good example in the practice, and someone who encourages them in their practice, too. At the …
- Doing Nothing… mindfulness, which is keeping something in mind; alertness, which is watching what you’re doing and what the results of what you’re doing; and ardency, the persistence of right effort. Right effort means distinguishing what’s skillful and what’s unskillful in the mind, and learning how to block or end any unskillful states in the mind and how to give rise to …
- The Four-in-One Establishing of Mindfulness… how well the breath is going and how well the mind is staying with the breath. And then there the remaining factors of awakening that are developed as you settle in: persistence, rapture, calm, concentration, and equanimity. All these things are right here, at least in potential form. This is one of Ajaan Lee’s favorite themes: Everything you need to be mindful of …
- The Five Faculties Confirmed… When you escape from conviction, from persistence, from mindfulness, from concentration, from the discernment through that dispassion, that’s when you realize these qualities really do lead to the deathless. You have no more need for conviction, because your conviction has been confirmed. So this is why we practice these faculties. They are means, not an end, and the Buddha’s very clear about …
- Balance & Release… tranquility is balanced with insight; the energy feels just right; the levels of desire, persistence, intentness, and analysis are all just right as they converge. It’s when everything feels balanced, and you’re very alert, that you begin to see things you didn’t see before. You’re in a more neutral position. The neutral position is what allows you to see. Try …
- Training the Whole Mind… Of course you want it that way.” “Well why?” If you’re persistent in being block-headed like this, all the defilements will start revealing themselves. You’ll see how shabby they are. You’ll be able to get around them more easily. It’s like training a little child. Sometimes you have to be strict with the child, other times you have to …
- Humility & Confidence… He seems to have been pretty super-human in his determination, his persistence, and his endurance, but those are qualities he had to develop. They were potentials that hadn’t yet been actualized when he started out. It was through the practice that they actually became the qualities of a Buddha. It’s the same when we practice. When we start out, we’re …
- Boxed Stories… You have to use persistence. But if you find yourself in a bad box, always remember there’s a better box. You can take yourself out of that. Then you can use this knowledge in other parts of your life as well, especially with addictions of different kinds. There’s a part of the mind that, when certain feelings come up in the body …
- Heedful, Attentive, Mindful… The qualities you’re trying to develop are mindfulness, the ability to analyze what’s going on in the mind, persistence, rapture, calm, concentration, and equanimity. Ajaan Fuang gives the example: He says, “If you want to see the mind, you don’t just follow it around. You give it something that it likes, and then it’ll be there. And then you can …
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