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  2. Mindfulness
     … Those factors are analysis of qualities, rapture, and persistence: the qualities that energize the mind. Then there are qualities appropriate when the mind is overly excited, overly energetic: calm, equanimity, and concentration. Those calm the mind down. You need both sets of qualities in the practice. It’s simply a matter of finding balance, and of having a sense of time and place. There … 
  3. A Special Time
     … So keep your desire well focused, be persistent, give this your full attention, and analyze what you’re doing so that you can see what’s working and what’s not. Then use your ingenuity to figure out things that will work. When you find that what you do isn’t working, well, what could you do to change it? These are all qualities … 
  4. You Can Do It
     … What do you need beyond being a human being in order to mediate? You need some persistence and you need some truthfulness, so you stick with it. These are two qualities that are emphasized over and over in the forest tradition: that if you stick with this quest for true happiness and you really are serious about it—not grim, but serious—that’s … 
  5. An Island in the Flood
     … the nutrition of conviction that what you do is going to come back at you, so you want to do things well; the nourishment of persistence, sticking with something again, and again, and again, making good things habitual; the nourishment of mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. There are all these good things here on this island in the middle of the flood. So do your … 
  6. The Real World Isn’t for Real
     … He encourages persistence, i.e., learning to take delight in developing skillful qualities and abandoning unskillful ones, whether it means just watching them or actually actively undoing the unskillful ones to replace them with something more skillful. The Buddha has you feed on mindfulness, concentration, discernment—finding joy in all these things. When you can find joy in this path, you can look at … 
  7. Songkran Blessing
     … There’s also the strength of persistence, when you stick with the principle that you want to do what’s only skillful, you want to abandon anything that’s unskillful. The strength of mindfulness, when you keep in mind what’s right and what’s wrong, not only while you’re here at the monastery, but also as you go through life. Concentration, when … 
  8. Skillful Fears
     … Then there’s persistence: putting energy into trying to do whatever is skillful and to abandon whatever’s unskillful. Then there’s mindfulness: keeping in mind what’s skillful and what’s not, and keeping in mind the need to develop skillful qualities and abandon unskillful ones. And that leads to concentration, which is where you get your real nourishment. The Buddha compares concentration … 
  9. The Heightened Mind
     … As you go through the day, it’s not just to get the particular job done, it’s to develop qualities of the mind like persistence, determination, and endurance. Then you give the mind a chance to rest. “Rest,” as the Buddha says, “in renunciation.” In other words, you renounce thoughts of sensuality and all the thoughts that go along with sensuality: thoughts of … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. When Your Head Is on Fire
     … These three qualities — right view or discernment, right mindfulness, right effort or persistence — revolve around every factor of the path. This is why the first three factors for awakening are mindfulness, discernment — in other words, analysis of qualities — and effort. These are the qualities that create the foundations for all the remaining factors for awakening, which are the ones related to concentration: rapture, calm … 
  17. 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.
  18. 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 … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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.
  21. 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 … 
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