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  2. The Sublime Attitudes
     … mindfulness, alertness, concentration, discernment, persistence, truthfulness, perseverance. As we work at these qualities, as we put them into action, they get strengthened and become more and more the wise arbitrators of our lives, pointing our lives in the direction we really want to go. Then the final reflection builds on that: “Whatever we do for good or for evil, to that will we fall … 
  3. How & Why We Meditate
     … Work on using these three types of fabrication to make your concentration as solid as you can. After a while, though, as you get skilled at these types of fabrication and you feel solid in the present moment, you can turn and look at whatever in the thought seemed so attractive. You can start analyzing the thought in terms of the three types of … 
  4. Basic Breath, Basic Insight
     … Then there’s concentration, where you get the mind centered. There’s discernment, when you begin to see what’s going on in the mind and understand why the mind is creating suffering and also what you can do to put an end to it. And then finally, there’s release: freedom from that suffering. That’s what the teaching is all about. As … 
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