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  2. Emptiness
     … No wonder you feel weighed down, no wonder things are difficult—more than you can bear. The trick is to put the pole down. You don’t have to carry the future; you don’t have to carry the past. For the time being, as you’re practicing concentration, just carry the present moment. Be responsible for the present moment, and look to see … 
  3. Wilderness Wealth
     … body, feelings, mind states, mental qualities, in and of themselves. Yet there’s even a state of concentration that doesn’t focus on those themes at all. It’s totally independent: No object whatsoever, but awareness is concentrated. But even that, he says, is fabricated. When you realize that—that there is even an element of effort that goes into that, that it’s … 
  4. Craving & Desire on the Path
     … You focus on the breath, developing a feeling of ease using a perception of the breath to hold you in place. You fabricate the processes of directed thought and evaluation to settle in, and you’re aware of all these things. Well, that’s the five aggregates right there—creating right concentration. Then there are four forms of clinging around the aggregates. One of … 
  5. A Good Buddhist Ego
     … The fact that you’ve made the raft out of things on this side of the river means basically that you’re taking the aggregates—form, feeling, perceptions, thought constructs, and consciousness—and turning them into the path. Like we’re doing when we concentrate: You’re focused on the breath, which is an aspect of form. You’re trying to develop a feeling … 
  6. Teaching Old Dogs New Selves
     … With your body, your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and especially your awareness, there are aspects here that you can control, and so you say, “They’re useful for this or that purpose, and holding onto them in this way or that way I can get some happiness.” And you identify with that happiness. So you identify with the tools for getting that happiness as well … 
  7. A Friend When You’re on Your Own
     … If I was feeling victimized about something, I could remember that maybe I wasn’t just a victim. Maybe I had been the victimizer at some point in time, and this process had gone back and forth, back and forth, to the point where I just wanted to say enough. When you think in those terms, rather than trying to tally up who was … 
  8. Equanimity in Action, Equanimity at Rest
     … Whatever you need to feel equanimity for, no matter how easy or how hard, you’re able to do it. This will depend on the situation, because remember, equanimity is never taught as a quality on its own. It’s always part of a series of qualities. In the four brahmaviharas, you need to develop it together with goodwill, compassion, and empathetic joy. You … 
  9. Feeding on Ardency
     … It’s because of intention that you take the raw material for an experience of form, feeling, perception, fabrication, or consciousness, and turn it into an actual experience of those things. So there are many layers of feeding that go on in our experience, and because we can’t simply stop feeding, the Buddha’s path gives us something good to feed on. Think … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. 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 … 
  18. 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 … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. 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 … 
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