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  2. Why Mindfulness
     … form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, and sensory consciousness. There’s another follow-up question: “What danger does your teacher see in having desire and passion for those things?” The answer: When you have desire and passion for those things, you do things that cause suffering. But if you abandon that passion and desire, you put an end to suffering. So notice that Sariputta’s answers … 
  3. The Power of the Mind
     … in through the course of the day, you can change it. After all, as the Buddha said, nothing can change as quickly as the mind. So, take advantage of that tendency. Feel free to put it in a good mood. Remember that the Buddha never defines mind. It’s one of those terms that never gets defined. He doesn’t say anything about the … 
  4. Contemplating the World You Create
     … So you’ve got feelings and perceptions and all kinds of thought-constructs, intentions, and acts of attention: They’re all right here. And as you try to get the mind into concentration, you begin to get a sense of which ones are involved and how they get involved. That’s how you begin to see the processes of the mind. That’s when … 
  5. In Heedfulness We Trust
     … And it’s not just a matter of not liking the feel of the mosquito bite—the mosquitoes that carry malaria come out at this time of day, too. So you have to be careful. You have to be heedful. And even though it may sound like you’re worried, the fact that you’re heedful actaully educes the worry. I remember reading an … 
  6. Attahi Attano Natho
     … It points inside to body, feelings, mind, mental qualities, all in-and-of-themselves, right here. That’s where the work is to be done. That’s your frame of reference. Other people are just thoughts in that frame of reference. They’re not the focus. The focus is on what you’re doing, because what you’re doing is what shapes your experience … 
  7. The Buddha Respects Your Potential
     … being with the breath, getting sensitive to the breath, having a sense of being aware of the whole body as you breathe in and breathe out, so that you can breathe in a way that feels good throughout the body. That way, your awareness can fill the body with a sense of well-being, sense of ease. And when you have this ease that … 
  8. Ignorance
     … And the only way you can see it there is to sensitize yourself to the area through becoming more and more skillful with the way you breathe, the way you think, the way you deal with your feelings and perceptions. All these processes of fabrication are conditioned by ignorance. This is why paying attention to that simple question of “What am I doing right … 
  9. Informing the Whole Committee
     … But when everyone’s working together, when everyone’s feeling a sense of ease, gratification and fullness, then they all hear the lesson. They are all happy to hear the lesson because they can see how true it is. This particular insight that you gain really does make a difference, really does cut through ignorance, really does cut through this problem of random members … 
  10. Unburdensome, Part 2
     … So open your mind to this possibility, that where you’re most dearly attached and you have the strongest feelings about how right it is to be attached there, that’s precisely where you’ve got to question things. You’ve got to see that there’s suffering there. Without seeing the suffering, it’s very hard to admit that you’re doing anything … 
  11. Make the Most of Right Now
     … The feeling of being full is something that’s just there. They’re two very different things. You can’t make yourself full simply by telling yourself, “Okay, I’ll act like I’m full.” You’ve got to do what’s required. So realize: There’s work involved. There are going to be frustrations and difficulties, but learn how to delight in taking … 
  12. Mindfulness in the Driver’s Seat
     … Some people have the attitude that when an emotion comes up, you have to allow yourself to really feel it, “get into it.” Well, the Buddha’s actually saying, No, you’ve got to get out. But there are skillful and unskillful ways of getting out. The unskillful way is to deny it. The skillful way is to be willing to watch it, but … 
  13. Visakha Puja – Shaking the Earth
     … You look at the things that you used to feel passionate about and you see that they’re empty. A lot of times that passion accomplishes nothing. And sometimes even worse: In other words, it accomplishes nothing and actually takes good things away. Because with so many of the things that we’re passionate for, we’ll do all kinds of things to get … 
  14. Universal Truths
     … And there’s no way you can compare your suffering to anyone else’s, to see who’s suffering more, exactly what it tastes like, or what it feels like. But it is something you can know for yourself. So you should pay attention to it. What this means is that the four noble truths are not some abstract teaching whose truth is peculiar … 
  15. Admirable Friendship
     … how you deal with sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations; how you deal with thoughts, feelings, and perceptions; even how you deal with the act of consciousness. All these things are a matter of skill. This is why the Buddha didn’t present himself as a savior. He was a teacher. He pointed out the way. Part of his pointing out the way … 
  16. The Focus on Suffering
     … And we ignore the big thing that we do have the power to change, which is how we react to feelings of pleasure and pain, and how craving builds on top of that. From our craving, we create all kinds of thought-constructs and ideas that lead to suffering. That’s what we’ve got to look at. Just learning to focus there: That … 
  17. Defilements Are Real
     … Greed comes in, we assume that it’s our greed, it’s the way we feel about that particular object we want and it’s our wanting. The same with anger: We’re angry. Delusion sneaks up on us and doesn’t even let us know it’s there, but it’s there, and we identify with whatever deluded ideas it may bring. This … 
  18. Maintaining Stillness
     … When the mind goes running out after an object, you actually feel it as a current coming out of the body. Sometimes it comes right out of the heart area. It runs here, it runs there, and normally we just run along with it. But when you have this foundation and you’re learning how to maintain it in all situations, there will have … 
  19. Right Resolve & Right Speech
     … As for harsh speech, its motivation is basically to hurt somebody’s feelings. And, again, the Buddha does admit that there are times when you have to speak in unpleasing ways, but you really have to be very careful about time and place: when it will be effective, when it will not be effective—“effective” here meaning that you want your listeners to become … 
  20. The Buddha’s Map
     … a lump. Bubbles come through it, turning the lump into foam, and the lump of foam can travel down the river quite a ways. But there’s nothing there, no substance. Feelings are like the little circles that appear on the surface of water when rain drops hit the water. They appear and they’re gone. Perceptions are like mirages. Fabrications are like a … 
  21. Representing the World to Itself
     … But there are others who feel the suffering that they’re causing themselves. And they’re more willing to change. The problem is that these worlds are pretty hermetically sealed. You can’t look into someone else’s world to see how it differs from yours. If we’re satisfied with how we manage the world, then it’s going to be very hard … 
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