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  2. Right View as Tool
     … They can see your face when it’s contorted in response to suffering, or they can hear it in your voice, but they can’t actually sense the suffering, sense the pain, sense the stress that you feel. You’re the one who senses these things, and if you want to put an end to them, you have to learn how to be even … 
  3. More than Mindfulness
     … They get a little bit of food, and we don’t feel too overwhelmed by them, but you’ll never know when they’re going to suddenly get really hungry and eat you up. So if you have any discernment, if you have any heedfulness, you’re going to want to develop your discernment even further to the point where the tiger’s dead … 
  4. Concentration Nurtured by Virtue
     … After all, it’s not just because things are attractive that you feel greed—often the greed is there and then you look for things to get greedy about. It’s the same with anger. This is why they have hate radio. The radio doesn’t turn itself on—you have to turn it on to listen. You’re looking for something to get … 
  5. Looking Inward
     … We get a pleasant feeling and okay, that’s it. We just want to hold on to that pleasure. The Buddha’s discovery was that you can take pleasure and pain and use them as tools. The pleasure is used to create the sense of well-being in the mind, the sense of stability, so that it can really start looking inward in a … 
  6. The Rewards of Cleanliness
     … Suffering is something that it feels. When you see the connection, you see that whatever the mind is doing is coming out of ignorance. You do your best to put all your powers of knowing into the area where the ignorance is, and you begin to see where these things come from. So the clearer your powers of knowing, the more all-around, the … 
  7. Patient & Inquisitive
     … I know some people who say they try to breathe in, and before they’ve even got the breath down to the stomach, they already feel the need to breathe out. Well, that’s one perception you may have about the breath. But there are other layers of breath that have already gone down to the stomach and gone down to the feet just … 
  8. The Buddha’s Metaphysics
     … Look at the perceptions and feelings you have around it. You can change those. Now, these choices may not immediately destroy the habit, but they can chip away, chip away. You have that element of freedom. And over time, if you keep at it, you find you can free yourself from whatever it was. You see the allure — why the mind went for it … 
  9. Resourceful
     … You have to remember that his approach was interesting in that he focused not so much on body, feelings, mindstates, or mental qualities. He did talk about those, but his real emphasis was on the three qualities you bring to this practice: ardency, alertness, and mindfulness. These are the qualities that underlie your ingenuity and your powers of observation. They give you a framework … 
  10. The Right to Repair Your Mind
     … You’ve got body, feeling, mind—all right here. And you make that awareness all-around. When you’re sitting here, try not to bring into the concentration the perception that you’re facing forward. Your eyes may be facing forward, and we live in a world where we think that we’re facing in one direction and we tend to carry that perception … 
  11. Take Good Aim
     … What exactly got you interested? What was the hook? A perception? A feeling? How did they get associated with that person? The same with anger: You’re angry because things are a certain way and you want them to change. Well, suppose you actually got them to change. You might find that that doesn’t really satisfy you. There was something else that you … 
  12. Delight in Concentration
     … If you feel that it doesn’t really make any difference—or that if there is a difference, it doesn’t really matter—it’s going to be hard to put in the effort to stir yourself to want to do this well. So if you’re going to get the mind to settle down, you have to see that getting it settled down … 
  13. Cause & Effect
     … You don’t want the suffering, so why hold on to it? Why claim it as yourself?—that kind of activity, feeling, or perceiving, or constructing thoughts, or being conscious in that particular way. So you let go, let go, let go, as you’re holding on to other things that are more and more refined, more and more skillful. Without good things to … 
  14. The Not-Self Discourse
     … Around that sense of the permanent knower there’s a feeling of well-being. There’s a perception. There’s some fabrication going on, and there’s consciousness. So there are subtle levels of aggregates there as well. In some cases, the Buddha says, Sabbe dhamma anatta, in order to get you to let go of even that permanent sense of the knower. But … 
  15. Listening to the True Dhamma
     … Focus on your breath, where you feel the breath in the body. As for the affairs of the world outside, don’t focus on them at all. There’s work that has to be done, and it has to be done right here, inside. So focus your attention here. As you get focused here, you begin to see that the talk does refer to … 
  16. Guarding the Truth
     … You have a perception of how the breath comes in and out of the body, and you’re creating feelings of pleasure as best you can. Those are mental fabrications. You’re doing this by maintaining that intention to stay with the breath. You’re paying attention to the things that might get in the way, trying to deal with them skillfully. All these … 
  17. Doubts
     … The disgust that that person would feel: You’re trying to develop the same kind of disgust for the thoughts that would pull you away from the breath, and that the mind seems to want to go back to, again and again—like a dog rolling over something dead that it’s found on the ground. If that method doesn’t work, the Buddha … 
  18. Make the Most of This Breath
     … At the same time, you can be compassionate, not by misrepresenting the truth to people who you feel aren’t ready to receive the truth, but by learning how to avoid the topic. If you see that the topic of the conversation’s heading in that direction, steer it off as quickly as you can before it really gets there, so that the fact … 
  19. Verified Confidence
     … And, as we all know, once you start thinking in terms of fabrication—that’s the way you breathe, that’s the way you think, talk to yourself, the perceptions you hold in mind, the feelings you hold, focus on; these things fabricate your sense of the body, they fabricate your words, they fabricate the mind: When you begin to see what you’re … 
  20. Stick with It
     … Some people like to feel that they’re especially bad. If they’re going to be special in something, might as well be especially bad. But you have to realize that whatever harm you’ve done, whatever bad habits you have, they’re really nothing new. The range of defilements in the mind—even though your defilements may have tricks that are especially tricky … 
  21. Looking in Three Directions
     … Are you actually doing this? What are the results? Is there a sense of ease? A sense of well-being? Is the mind energized enough to keep going, or are you clamping down on it in a way that makes the mind lose some of its energy? If it begins to feel that it’s getting worn out, the concentration is out of balance … 
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