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  2. Unskillful Thinking
     … Can you feel it? So when you’re sitting around doing nothing, you don’t have to do nothing, you can watch your breath, you can play with the breath, you can learn about the breath. At the same time, you can play with sidestepping your thoughts. In this way, you can enjoy the present moment and develop important skills at the same time … 
  3. Clearing a Space
     … When I was staying in Thailand with Ajaan Fuang, I’d feel frustrated when he’d say, “Use your pañña.” That’s the Pali and Thai word for discernment. That was back in the days when the only translation I knew for pañña was wisdom, and I kept thinking, “How am I going to use my wisdom when I don’t have any?” But … 
  4. Scribe Knowledge, Warrior Knowledge
     … On the one hand, if you’re spreading thoughts of goodwill, other people will feel a good energy coming from you. And then, two, you’ll learn how to trust yourself more. If you do genuinely have goodwill for other people, even difficult people, then you’re less likely to act in unskillful ways around them. This means that you can trust yourself more … 
  5. Nuclear Thinking
     … The way she spoke to him gave my brother the feeling that she was on his side. She knew he wanted to have some fun and she was showing him how to do it in a harmless way. Mindfulness and alertness are like teachers of the mind, and you’ve got to train them to be sharp and wise. When alert mindfulness fills the … 
  6. Hindrances to the Heightened Mind
     … Just because something comes up in the mind, they make us feel that we’re committed, that we have to think the thought through. There’s also the problem where one part of the mind says, “Well, as long as I’m trying to get the mind into concentration, I can’t let there be any thoughts at all in the mind,” and so … 
  7. Worldly Equanimity & Its Uses
     … The awakening itself isn’t equanimity—it’s the highest happiness—but when you reflect on your mind afterward, seeing that it is now freed of greed, aversion, and delusion, you can either feel joy, rapture, or equanimity. That kind of equanimity, you don’t create. It just happens. The other two kinds of equanimity you have to fabricate. Notice that the first one … 
  8. Using Your Many Minds
     … form feeling, perception, mental fabrications, consciousness. They’re all there in the concentration. When you learn how to let go of the most subtle levels, then you’re totally free. But you can do this only if you’ve mastered them. It’s not the case where you say, “Well I’ve had a taste of concentration, so now I’m beyond that, I … 
  9. Honest & Observant
     … While you’re with the breath, try to be as sensitive as possible to how the breathing feels, because that sensitivity is what’s going to develop into discernment. After all, discernment isn’t just a matter of imposing the Buddha’s concepts on your mind. You have to be sensitive to what you’re actually doing and the results you’re actually getting … 
  10. Antidotes for Clinging
     … We feed on the form of the body, we feed on feelings, perceptions, thought constructs, and sensory consciousness. When these things are pleasant, they’re not too heavy. But they can turn around and turn unpleasant very quickly. They gobble us up, for we’ve opened the way for them to get to us. Once you start clinging to the good ones, you start … 
  11. To Escape the Prison of Time
     … After all, where’s the body you had twenty years ago, ten years ago? Where are your feelings? You may have memories of the past, but they’re very much subject to change, and can often be unreliable. You look within time and you can find very little solidity, very little opportunity to settle in and say, “Okay, this is a good safe place … 
  12. Staying Power
     … This is why it’s important to have this third alternative, which is first to breathe through any tension that’s built up in the body around the anger, because that’s the part that makes the anger unbearable—that physical, visceral sense of tension, tightness, blockage in the body that feels wrong. That’s what makes the anger unbearable. Thoughts on their own … 
  13. Abandoning & Developing
     … It’s a state of mind where you can actually look more clearly at what needs to be done, what can be done, without a neurotic need to change things the way you think they should be just for the sake of changing, or for the sake of feeling good about yourself. You’ve already got a sense of well-being inside, which allows … 
  14. In Line with the Truth
     … Each time you come back, reward yourself with a good, comfortable breath, something that feels really good deep down inside. If there’s any part of the body that seems to be deprived of breath energy, think of opening it up and the breath penetrating in, so that you can touch the Dhamma with the body. That’s an expression the Buddha uses to … 
  15. Habits of Perception
     … See things within the frame of body, feelings, mind states, or mental qualities, in and of themselves. Make those your frames of reference — as when you’re dealing with the breath right now: just the breath coming in, going out. In this context, thoughts have meaning only to the extent that they pull you away from the breath or don’t pull you away … 
  16. A Well-Thatched Roof
     … Once you learn how to feel dispassion for those things, that’s when you’ve really comprehended stress. The pleasure of concentration is what allows you to look at pain to the point of comprehending it. So the important point with regard to all these dhammas of the world is learning how to use them. They do have their uses, as long as you … 
  17. Protection Through Mindfulness Practice
     … What was the first sensation in the body? What was the first little thought in the mind?—the little whisper of thought that suggested that lust might be a good antidote for whatever sense of irritation you’re feeling, or that anger would be an appropriate response for what someone’s done. And how does that work its way through your inner bureaucracy?—influencing … 
  18. Where Perceptions Can Take You
     … When something comes up in the mind—perception, feeling, thought construct—ask yourself, “What is this for? Where does this lead?” Have a clear idea that it can lead in these different directions: Either it can pull you down, or it can stabilize the mind, or it can lead the mind to even more distinctive levels of being stable, or it can take you … 
  19. Avoidance
     … Throughout Asia there’s a feeling that skills are have a certain dignity, and that the teacher’s the one who gets to choose who gets to study the skill. The teacher has to be impressed by the student’s dedication. That’s part of the reason for that tradition of sitting outside overnight. At the same time, going through that experience the student … 
  20. Stake Out
     … intention, attention, perception, feeling, directed thought, evaluation, and even the way you breathe. If you take these things simply as events in and of themselves, you begin to see there’s not much there. That’s the level that the Buddha wants you to operate on, before these things have a chance to become a state of becoming, because as you get a sense … 
  21. Life in the Context of the Practice
     … That enables you to step back from your problems so that you can settle down and meditate properly, realizing that whatever your issues are, the suffering that you feel from them comes from your own craving, comes from your own clinging. And whatever issues will come up in the course of the day, you don’t know what they’ll be, but you do … 
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