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  2. Dhamma Warrior
     … In other words, the skillful qualities in the mind that need developing, you develop them. As you develop them, you find that they teach you about the Dhamma. Through the developing you learn about aspects you didn’t realize before. So here we are moving from what, in the old days, was called scribe knowledge to what’s called warrior knowledge. In other words … 
  3. Reflections on Kamma
     … A lot of them will come and say, “Well, I can tempt you with this little bit of instant pleasure.” In other words, while you’re doing the action it’s going to be pleasant, and who cares what happens afterwards? If the mind is weak, it’ll give in. You want the strength to be able to say No to unskillful things that … 
  4. Thinking Seriously about Happiness
     … We’re using the body, focused on the breath, as our object of meditation, trying to feel the body, the entire body, from the top of the head down to the tips of the toes, as we’re grounding the mind. So even though the body does have its limitations, it does have its uses as well. It’s just that you have a … 
  5. Looking after Yourself with Ease
     … And part of the mind actually likes the irritation. It wants you to act on the anger. It’ll stir things up in the body so that you feel a sense of being oppressed, being stifled. You have to ask yourself: Do you really want to go along with that? Or do you want to bring some knowledge and awareness to this, and breathe … 
  6. Murderers, Vipers, & Floods, Oh My!
     … Don’t think that as soon as you propose the idea to the committee of the mind, “Hey, let’s meditate!” everybody in the committee will chime in and say, “Yes, that sounds great.” We’ve all had opposition in our internal committees. The important thing is to realize that you don’t have to identify with the opposition. It’s normal, it’s … 
  7. The Second Frame of Reference
     … is pleasure someplace. Ferret it out. Look for it. In the beginning, it may not seem all that impressive, but there already are pleasant feelings in different parts of the body. The mind has a tendency to focus on the pains because that’s what its early warning system is for: to figure out where there’s pain that you’ve got to do … 
  8. The World Is Swept Away
     … The process of sitting right here with the mind on the breath, thinking about and evaluating the breath, perceiving and feeling the results: All the factors you’re going to need to know are right here, and yet you tend to look past them. So try to keep your focus right here. The irony of it all is that the more “right here” you … 
  9. Borrowing the Buddha’s Wisdom
     … You can take the good qualities of the body and the mind, and you can make them into a raft. You hold on to that raft as you go across. Don’t let go. You let go only when you’ve reached the other side. So you do have potentials within you to find safety, to find a happiness that’s long-term. The … 
  10. No Happiness Other than Peace
     … That requires you to develop the path—with the mind in good strong concentration, mindful and alert, imbued with right effort—so you can develop the skill needed to comprehend stress. Because each of the tasks is actually a skill. This is why the path is a gradual path, because it takes a while to develop the skills. After all, nibbana is very, very … 
  11. To Sustain Your Practice
     … It’s just that there’s a lot in the path that doesn’t show its results right away, which is why the mind can be very easily waylaid by the views and the opinions of the world. This is where those three types of fabrication that we’ve been talking about come in. One is learning how to breathe in a comfortable way … 
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