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  2. Stay Principled
     … So when a situation comes up that you think might cause you to feel tempted to abandon the path, you’ve got to think it through: “Okay, what exactly am I afraid of here? Which is the greater fear? Which is the greater danger?” In some cases you’ll be able to figure out that there are more skillful alternatives that don’t cause … 
  3. Prepare to Die
     … So what is that you really want to hold on to? What is there that’s so magical and wonderful about it? This contemplation is not to make you feel bad about your body image. It’s for making you realize there’s really nothing here or in any human body that’s worth getting all worked up about. Nobody in the world has … 
  4. A Wilderness Mind at Home
     … We feel we get a lot done by anger, but actually the anger is not a help. I mean, seeing wrongs that have to be righted, and doing what you can to right them, is one thing. Getting all tied up in anger over them, though, is something else. It’s no help, because you start miscalculating the effect of your thoughts, words, and … 
  5. Cleaning up Your Personal Environment
     … The real suffering is the fact that you’re holding on not only to your body, but also to your feelings and your perceptions, your thought constructs, even to your active consciousness. All those are things: If you hold on to them, if you cling to them, you’re going to suffer. Now, the word holding on doesn’t mean your mind has a … 
  6. A Sense of Direction
     … At the very least you don’t want to feel ill will for them. You don’t think about how much you want them to suffer, because you don’t gain anything from their suffering. In fact, the more they suffer, the more unskillfully they’ll probably behave. So for your own well-being and the well-being of others, it’s good to … 
  7. Ask the Right Questions
     … dealing with fabrications. The Buddha talks about becoming sensitive to the bodily fabrication, i.e., the in-and-out breath, allowing it to grow calm. And then there’s mental fabrication: feelings and perceptions. How do these to grow calm? That’s part of getting the mind to settle down. But this time you go back to the same issue, and the question now … 
  8. The Power to Transcend Suffering
     … So when you find yourself discouraged or depressed, change the way you breathe so that you feel more energized. Or if you’re tense and irritable, change the way you breathe so that you’re more soothed and relaxed. There’s lots to play with here. This comes under the first base of success. The Buddha said there are four bases of success or … 
  9. The Dhamma Is in the Method
     … Why can’t you as practitioners?” Revenge may be too strong a word for the feelings you may have for others. But sometimes you just want to get back at somebody, with the conviction that you’re right about wanting to see them suffer. But your rightness is creating a lot of trouble. There are ways of being right and yet wrong at the … 
  10. Contemplation of the Body
     … It’s as if the human body is designed to undercut any sense of pride we might feel. Other people have to wipe you; other people have to turn you over; whatever sense of privacy you used to have about your body gets thrown out the window. You can’t control your urinating, can’t control your defecating. Everything goes out of control. And … 
  11. Thinking About Rebirth
     … You breathe in a certain way and you can give rise to comfortable feelings. You can choose which way you’re going to perceive things, to perceive things as self, perceive them as not-self. You can formulate thoughts, you can focus on being aware of all kinds of things that you want, up to a point. So while you have that power, try … 
  12. Sensitive in Seven Ways
     … But at other times, it’s just a sense of refreshment—you sit here and every part of the body feels totally satisfied. The energy is just right. That sense of fullness and just-rightness also counts as pīti, which is translated as rapture. So you have to learn how to recognize these things. After all, only when you recognize them can you know … 
  13. Ups & Downs
     … how to talk your mind into doing things that you know are skillful, but it doesn’t really feel like doing them. You can ask, “Who in here doesn’t like doing them?” In other words, this is a good place to not see the mind as a unified entity, just lots of little conflicting desires in there, and you’ve got to sort … 
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