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  2. Freedom & Security
     … You’re acting and intending all the time, so you have the opportunity to develop something skillful in your mind all the time. That’s all to the good. As you act on this conviction, you discover more potentials, more abilities within yourself than you thought you had. You’ve got this huge field that you can plant full of all kinds of good … 
  3. A Tradition of Ingenuity
     … This looked like a good skill to master, so he worked on it on his own. He may have gotten some ideas from what he saw of what they were doing, but he kept coming up with new ways in later years, too, because his body kept presenting him with new problems. It presented him with a heart attack one time. He had to … 
  4. The First Noble Truth
     … The Buddha calls these activities “I-making” and “my-making.” Some of the activities are skillful; some are not. So you sort through your collection of selves by focusing on the activities that create them, and the activities they give rise to in turn. Foster the selves that will be helpful on the path and learn to look askance at the selves in the … 
  5. Observe Yourself in Action
     … So, as you go through the day and exercise a little restraint over your senses, remind yourself, okay, this is an important skill you need to develop. The Buddha’s not trying to be a killjoy, telling you not to enjoy the pleasures of the senses. There are pleasures there that are perfectly innocent, that don’t have a bad impact on the mind … 
  6. Protecting Your Space
     … that you can do that, that you can develop those skills. Belief in kamma is what grows into an understanding of the four noble truths: There is suffering, and it’s clinging. There is a cause, and the cause is there in the mind, something the mind is doing, and something you can do something about. There are factors in the mind that you … 
  7. Sensitive in Seven Ways
     … It’s not just a matter of figuring out, “How am I going to meditate all the time?” It involves learning to look at these dimensions in your life, or looking at your life from the perspective of these dimensions, and keeping up the determination that you want to be as skillful as possible in all these aspects of becoming a true person.
  8. Well-being Despite It All
     … So it’s really good to learn this skill of stepping out of your thought-worlds so that you can at least choose where you’re going to go. You can step out of those thought-worlds. You don’t have to jump into whatever comes up. This is why mindfulness, alertness, and ardency are so important. After all, these are qualities you can … 
  9. The Sport of Wise People
     … One of the skills of meditation is learning how to gladden the mind as you’re practicing. So, what would gladden your mind right now? Maybe some thoughts of goodwill. Try to think of someone you’ve never extended goodwill to before and spread goodwill to that person. You might want to choose someone a little bit challenging, and take it as you’d … 
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