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  2. Factors for Stream-entry
     … Some of them are so basic and ordinary that we tend to overlook them, but it’s good to keep them in mind as we practice. The first is associating with people of integrity—the Pali phrase is literally, “true people.” The second is listening to the true Dhamma. The third is appropriate attention. The fourth is practicing the Dhamma in line with the … 
  3. Gratitude & Trust
     … So keep in mind the distinction between gratitude on the one hand and attitudes like appreciation or contentment on the other. Someone said recently that gratitude is wanting what you have. That’s actually a description of contentment or appreciation. Gratitude is more focused. It’s focused on actions: the actions you’ve benefited from and the actions you feel called on to make … 
  4. The Brightness of the World
     … When you’re able to let go of things outside—things that you don’t really need, things that you can share with others—it helps you to start reflecting on things inside the mind: the defilements you tend to hold on to—or your unwillingness to forgive someone. The best way to overcome stinginess, as the Buddha said, is to give a gift … 
  5. The Buddha’s Conventions
     … So, when you listen to the Dhamma, remember that you’re asking not only, “How does the Buddha describe things?” but, “What kind of description is he replacing?” When he asks a question, what questions is he not asking? This comes under the heading of appropriate attention—how you frame things in the mind. The way you frame things, and the perceptions you use … 
  6. Suffering Starts Before Life
     … That image of the fire going from the house also applies to the mind in this body, in this life, right here, right now. We keep going for this, going for that. We get frustrated here, frustrated there, so we try something else. If we get what we want, we consume it, and then we’ve already started looking for more. That’s what … 
  7. Modest, Unentangled, Unburdensome
     … This is directly related to the internal quality of persistence, because you’ve got a lot of unskillful qualities in your mind that you have to sort out. The more you get entangled with other people, the less time you have for your real work. Even when you do have duties that involve other people, you learn how to have a sense of just … 
  8. Intelligent Respect
     … Is there another way? It’s like that time when Ajaan Fuang told me to use my *pañña. *Up to that point, I’d always translated pañña in my mind as “wisdom.” I was at a point where I was feeling very unwise, so I said, “I have no pañña.” He said, “Of course you have pañña. Everybody has some pañña. It’s just … 
  9. Nobility Is the Best Policy
     … That’s how the mind can be freed. We have a story like that in the Buddhist tradition as well. There was a king and a queen whose kingdom was taken away from them by another king. So they disguised themselves and went and lived in the capital of the king who had defeated them. They had a son, and they realized after a … 
  10. Not-self as a Raft
     … We’re here to learn how to use these functions of the mind, these perceptions, in a skillful way. Now, there will come a point at the end of the path where you’ve developed the path as far as it can go and you’re going to have to let it go. That’s when you apply the perception of not-self to … 
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