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  2. Why We Practice the Way We Do
     … So there’s the truth of illness, stress, suffering. Then the third reflection: “The world has nothing of its own. One has to pass on leaving everything behind.” Here of course the king has treasures of all kinds. So, “What do you mean nobody has anything of their own?” The young monk asks him, “All that wealth you have: Can you take it with … 
  3. Days Fly Past
     … The point is that you’ve got this power of action, and it’s a potential both for great happiness and for great suffering, so you have to be very, very careful. Someone today raised the question of whether Buddhism is life affirming or not, or world affirming or not. That’s not the issue. For the Buddha the issue is to be action … 
  4. Determined to Stay with the Breath
     … You have to remember that the mind that’s not trained suffers a lot more than a person sitting here trying to train the mind, even when it’s hot or when it’s cold. When the circumstances are nice or not nice, you don’t want to make them an obstacle to your practice. After all, it is the mind that we’re … 
  5. Abusing Pleasure & Pain
     … When you push them away, you don’t really understand the difference between the natural pain in the body and the unnecessary suffering or stress in the mind. You want to keep on feeding, but you’ve got something bad in your mouth so you indiscriminately try to spit it right out. And often you can’t, for it’s a big glob stuck … 
  6. The Four Bases of Success
     … working through all the many habits by which you create suffering for yourself. So it’s not something to do in a weekend retreat and then think you’ve got it all done. It’s a long term process. And if you like what you’re doing, it goes a lot more easily. This is why when you’re meditating you want to become … 
  7. Slowing Down to Look
     … And an important way to deal with that is to open yourself up to the pain of other people as well, so that you see that you’re not the only person who’s suffering, you’re not the only person who’s meeting with events like this, events that cause sorrow. As you examine the idea that you’ve been unfairly treated, you … 
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