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- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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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