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  2. Noble & True
     … past or future.” Then he asked the man, “Are there people in your home town for whom, if you heard that they were imprisoned or fined or had died, you would feel nothing at all? And the householder said, “Yes.” “And why is that?” “Because I have no craving for them, no desire for them.” “And how about someone like your wife or your … 
  3. Protection from Fools
     … So why do we feel compelled to act on things just because they come into the mind? Often it’s because we don’t see any alternative. Yet when you step back like this, you begin to see that this is one very useful alternative: the ability to step back. When you have a different perspective, you begin to see other things as well … 
  4. Straightening Out the World
     … My first feeling—hearing them every day, every day—was one of impotence. I felt like there was something I should be doing out there to stop this, and that by staying on that little mountain in Thailand I was neglecting my duty. I mentioned this to Ajaan Fuang, and he said, “You know, you can only take on so many things in life … 
  5. Heedful of What’s Precious
     … They feel good and warm and fuzzy all over. They’re trained in learning how to speak in a way that’s good and warm and fuzzy. But it doesn’t get anywhere. It doesn’t lead to any understanding. So an important quality in gaining wisdom is learning how to ask questions, trying to figure things out. When a skillful state arises in … 
  6. A Good Purpose in Life
     … The mind has to develop in a direction where it feels that it’s really accomplishing something good, something solid. That’s what the Dhamma offers us, not just neat experiences in the meditation, but an opportunity to develop good qualities in the mind, qualities that can ultimately take us out of this need to consume so that we’re not feeding all the … 
  7. Wisdom Requires Integrity
     … What feels good for the body right now? Nobody else can tell you. You have to notice for yourself. And you have lots of choices. You can try long breathing, short breathing; fast, slow; heavy, light; deep, shallow; and all sorts of combinations of those factors. Play around with the breath. Get on familiar terms with it. You want to be able to stay … 
  8. Relating to Kamma
     … well-being, a sense of solidity inside, which is a kind of pleasure or happiness that’s very different from the happiness that comes simply from consuming things, consuming experiences, consuming feelings. So learn to use the teaching on kamma, develop a good relationship to it so that you can use it wisely, thinking about the long term, not just what immediate emotion is … 
  9. In Gratitude- Ajaan Suwat
     … The only way I feel close to them is by following what they taught me. If you had me change from that, then I’d be far away, both in body and mind. Like an uprooted plant, I’d die.” So I’ve held by that principle following Ajaan Suwat’s example. And that’s what’s enabled us to make a place where … 
  10. Dispassion Isn’t Oatmeal
     … He has diseases that he can’t share with other people—in other words, whatever pain he has, he has to feel it alone. When he dies, he can’t take anything with him. Yet when it’s proposed to him that he conquer another country, “Sure, go ahead.” Even though it would kill a lot of people and waste a lot of resources … 
  11. A Mind Like Earth
     … What in the path asks you to do something you’d be ashamed of? Or something that you wouldn’t feel quite right about? It’s all good stuff, nothing but honorable things that the Buddha is asking us to do. So keep your desire to do the path, to follow the path, strong. Patience is the attitude you have to take toward the … 
  12. No Who or Where
     … You’ve got the breath coming in, going out—bodily fabrication; the way you talk to yourself—verbal fabrication; perceptions and feelings—mental fabrications. And just leave them there. The question of who’s doing them and where they’re being done—that’s the irrelevant part. The who and the where: Put that aside and just look at the events. Try to put … 
  13. Above the World
     … Some people feel concerned about this. Is this cutting yourself off from your interconnections? In one way, yes. In one way, no. It’s not that you aren’t aware of things outside you. It’s not that you behave in an irresponsible way. It’s just that you maintain a part of your mind separate: safe and secure. If you let your mind … 
  14. Two Kinds of Defilements
     … When lust comes, when fear comes, try to keep the breath normal—so that you have a place where you can step back and look at the anger or the fear or the lust or whatever from the outside, without feeling that you have to get pulled in—or that you have to give in to these defilements before you can be rid of … 
  15. Meditating When You’re Sick
     … But it’s still possible to meditate and to get benefits from the meditation even when you’re not feeling well physically. There’s a story in the Canon about the Buddha suffering from an injury to his foot. Mara came up and taunted him as he was lying there and said, “Are you moping? Are you sad?” And the Buddha said, “No. I … 
  16. The Skills of a Hunter
     … Without it, we feel starved. So you have to learn how to feed off of the activity of staying centered but with an all-around awareness. And stick with it, because it’s the only way you’re going to get to know your mind. Don’t think that when the hunters are sitting there they’re not thinking about anything at all, or … 
  17. Maintained by Fabrication
     … They settle in, and then they digest their brain because they feel there’s nothing else they have to think about. They just feed from that point on. The fabrication in that case gets pretty minimal—just feeding without anything else in mind. We can see that that’s a very limited idea of happiness, a limited idea of well-being. Well, the Buddha … 
  18. The Language of the Breath
     … Which way of breathing feels best for the body right now? As you work with that question, you find yourself getting more and more sensitive to the breath energy in the body. Exactly what does it mean, this “breath energy” in the body? What are the different ways it has of working? You can look at Ajaan Lee’s instructions on breath meditation. He … 
  19. Looking Off to the Side
     … That’s what makes this an exercise in making you more sensitive, because you see not only what kind of breathing feels better for the body but also exactly how much you can direct the breath and have positive results. Sometimes you find yourself playing with the breath too much and you end up with a headache. You take that as a lesson: The … 
  20. A Matter of Life & Death
     … When you feel that things are too difficult, you have to stop and consider: Are they really too difficult? Sometimes they are. Or is it simply a matter that you haven’t learned how to depend on your own meditation enough? What can you do to be more dependable? What insights you gain into the way you’re making yourself suffer? After all, this … 
  21. Balancing Effort & Patience
     … There’s a sutta where the Buddha says even in just your basic experience of form, feeling, perception, and the rest of the aggregates, there’s an intentional element in all of them. So you’ve got to learn how to make those intentions skillful. You can do that only by watching what’s going on, and experimenting with the way your mind is … 
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