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- The Grass at the Gate… The purpose of the chant is to give you a sense of detachment from your desire, from your lust, from your attachment to the body as something that constantly has to be pandered to. Once you have that element of detachment, then you can look at the body and see, “What does it have of a positive nature?” Buddhism talks about that, too. There …
- Getting Yourself… You see the drawbacks of being attached to these things and you look for their escape from that attachment, the escape from that danger. Given that list, you’d think that the fourth item on the list would deal with medicine, but it doesn’t. It says that you delight in developing and delight in abandoning. In other words, you find delight in developing …
- Consciousness, Awakened & Not… They get more focused on the question of “attachment to the precepts,” saying that attachment is bad. Well, you’re not going to learn from the precepts unless you really try to follow them and you come up against situations in which there’s a strong temptation to break them. The Buddha wants you to say, “No.” Try to see: What would the harm …
- Maybe the Buddha Knew Something… You notice, “Oh, I’m attached to this, I’m attached to that”. On the one hand, it teaches you ingenuity, how to make the most of what you’ve got. But it also makes you ask, “Okay, to what extent is comfort that important in life? What are the prices of comfort? What are the prices of having the choices of many different …
- Perfecting the Mind in an Imperfect World… Don’t get worked up over things when they’re not nice; try not to get too attached to them when they are nice. Be careful to the extent of not making it a point of conceit that you’re content with things outside. The Buddha’s teachings for contentment are detailed and subtle. The reason you’re content is that you want to …
- The Raft… He still used all the factors of the path but, as he said, there was nothing that he was attached to. He picked up the raft when he needed it, and he put it down. But we’re not there yet. We’re still in the process of crossing over. So you hold on tight. As you’re here in concentration, hold on to …
- Practicing for Dispassion… The food isn’t attached to us. If we don’t eat the food in the morning, it’s not going to cry. We’re the ones who are upset when there’s no food. In the same way, we’re attached to becoming; we’re passionate about becoming. It’s for that reason that we’re stuck. When we can develop dispassion and …
- Dwellings… So we appreciate the goodness that’s been done here, we appreciate the fact that the sala has provided us with a place, but we can’t get nostalgic or attached. Years back, when we were building the chedi, which is a spired monument, at the monastery, Wat Dhammasathit, we didn’t hire people. We had volunteer workers. Ajaan Fuang’s students from Bangkok …
- Learning from What You Do… There’s a teaching you hear sometimes that the Buddha taught us to be not attached to the results, not attached to the outcome of our actions. But the only way that idea makes sense is if there are some things totally beyond your power to change. That’s what you have to let go of. But you’re not going to know what …
- Breath Meditation: The Fourth Tetrad… So you’ve got to get attached to the concentration to let these other things go. Ultimately, as other things lose their appeal, the concentration itself becomes your main remaining attachment. When you’ve reached that point, you can start turning the analysis of inconstancy onto the concentration so that even this—no matter how much you’ve liked it, no matter how much …
- Imagine… As long as you’re frank about the process, that you’re creating this state, you don’t have to worry about getting attached to it — even though you probably will get attached to it — because deep down inside you know it’s something you’ve created, and eventually you’ll have to take it apart. But in the mean time, learn how to …
- The Allure of Self… Those senses of self are all strategic, and the only way we’re going to get over being attached to them is to see that the strategies are not working to our satisfaction, and that there’s a better way to find happiness. It’s important to note that the sense of self is not dropped until the very last of the noble attainments …
- People Suffer from Their Thinking… Why make the body such a big deal? As for the stringent side, when you see that you’re really attached to the body, ask yourself: Well, what is it here in the body that’s really worth being proud about? The Buddha once said, after cataloging all the different things that the body does, all the stuff inside the body, and then what …
- How to Use the Three Perceptions… So you say, “Okay, this hasn’t passed the test.” Even when you do run into the unfabricated, this is where the teaching that sabbe dhammā anattā—all phenomena are not self, not just fabricated things but also the unfabricated—there tends to be an attachment where you say, “Oh, this must be it, this is it, I’ve got it.” There’s a …
- Death Is All Around… You get more and more attached to these things, and then when death comes, it’s going to deprive you of them. Just thinking about death is enough to scare you. The pleasures you had, the body you hold on to: It’s not going to be yours anymore. That’s trying to get the wrong things out of the body. But if you …
- Objectivity… So even though the mind tends to be partial, you can find common ground among all your desires, and use that common ground as a basis for becoming more impartial, more objective, more clear-seeing, so that you can bring yourself to the point where you let go of the last attachment, the last bit of ignorance that stands in the way of total …
- A Cocoon of Energy… We’re so attached to our bodies. Even when our thoughts go into great abstractions, they’re rooted right here. If anything happens to the body, it immediately pulls you right back. And as they’ve shown, a lot of our nerve-endings are down in the stomach, and they determine our moods. So, we have this pull inside the body. When we face …
- A Doctor’s Strategies… So even though we’re practicing to get the mind beyond attachment to comfort, you have to make the breath comfortable to get it to settle down. We try to get the mind to a point where it can be beyond all thought, but you have to use your thinking to get it there. We try to get it beyond desire, but you have …
- The Guarantee of Concentration… A little bit of concentration develops and they’re told, “Let it go, don’t get attached to it.” Well, that’s not what the Buddha taught. Concentration is part of the path, and the path is something to be developed, maintained, nurtured, a place you want to stay. Then, when you’re there, you’re really in a position where you can evaluate …
- Karma & Not-self… If you chase things down in dependent co-arising, starting with ignorance, you hit intention—which is karma—way before you hit attachment to self. You have intentions that lead to actions, the actions then condition your experience at the senses, and then around experiences you develop clinging. And part of that clinging is clinging to self. You identify certain things as yourself in …
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