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  2. A Sense of Space Inside
     … Everything else becomes irrelevant. When you look at this process, you begin to realize that you go through many different becomings in the course of a day. When you’re hungry for food, the desire to feed that hunger takes on a certain kind of becoming. When you’re hungry for companionship, that’s another kind of becoming. It all depends on how you … 
  3. The World of Conviction
    The World of Conviction March 27, 2017 One of the mind’s habits is to create states of becoming, involving both the world outside and your own inner world, the world of the mind. You start with a desire and then, based on that desire, you take on an identity in a specific world of experience. If you have a desire for pizza, the … 
  4. A Point of Balance
     … Craving for becoming is craving to be something. Craving for non-becoming is craving for annihilation. The Buddha said that when people hear that he teaches the Dhamma for the end of becoming, they can react in one of two ways. Either they’re under the sway of the first two kinds of craving, so they don’t want to hear what he has … 
  5. No Who or Where
     … If you think in line with the terms that cause of the problem—becoming—saying, “I want to stop this becoming,” the Buddha says that leads to more becoming. You’ve got to think in different terms, watch in different terms, talk to yourself about what’s going on in different terms. We spend so much time talking to ourselves, and for the most … 
  6. Practicing for Dispassion
     … craving—craving for sensuality, craving for becoming, and then, paradoxically, craving for non-becoming, when you’ve developed a particular becoming but then want to see it destroyed. That’s not the escape from becoming. It actually creates a new type of becoming. That presented the Buddha with a dilemma. Any becoming that you create is going to involve passion and delight, which is … 
  7. Not-self
     … craving for sensuality, craving for becoming, and craving for non-becoming. In each case, he says, this is a kind of craving that leads to more becoming. For example, with sensuality craving, you have a desire for a particular pleasure. You like to fantasize about the pleasures, and in the fantasy, you create a world. There’s the world in which that pleasure exists … 
  8. Becoming
     … There’s a sutta where the Buddha talks about the issue of thirsting for becoming, thirsting for non-becoming, and seeing things as they have come to be. He starts out with two extremes: There are people who just love becoming this, becoming that, creating states of being as much as they can; and there are other people who want to destroy states of … 
  9. An Island above the Flood
     … So you’re stepping out of that kind of thinking, taking on a becoming that can fend those things off. Ultimately, you’ll go beyond this becoming as well, but this is the becoming you need first to fight off the floods of becoming—just as you need right view in order to fend off the floods of wrong view, views that will get … 
  10. Dethinking Thinking
     … Now, doing that is engaging in craving for non-becoming, but you’re going to find the right balance between craving for becoming and craving for non-becoming only by learning how to engage in both skillfully. For instance, your craving for becoming right is now is aimed at creating a state of concentration. Your craving for non-becoming has to be focused on … 
  11. To Comprehend Craving
     … That way, you can watch as other potential becomings come up and not get pulled into them. You want to know them because the becomings on the large scale that take you from one life to the next start in the mind in these small-scale becomings as a thought-world appears. There’s usually some drive to go into it. Watch out for … 
  12. What Am I Becoming as Days & Nights Fly Past?
     … What am I becoming as days and nights fly past, fly past? In other words, how are you changing? In what direction are you developing? Are you just staying stuck in your old ways or are you moving in a good new direction? Look at the kind of person you’re becoming in your thoughts, your words, and your deeds, to see if that … 
  13. Stay Tuned
     … This is why we have to bring the state of becoming into being. This is why the path, even though it ultimately leads beyond becoming, has to make use of becoming to go beyond. Because while you do this, you start understanding: “What is the process of becoming? What is this kamma that forms the field? What is the consciousness that forms the seed … 
  14. Learning from Desire
     … That issue with the craving that leads to becoming: On the one hand, you’ve got the craving to get the mind into concentration, which is a state of becoming. On the other hand, there’ll be other cravings to go someplace else, other states of becoming. As the mind loses interest in the concentration, loses interest in the breath, it’ll go someplace … 
  15. Why Limit Yourself?
    There’s a famous American philosopher, William James, who, when he was a young man, had no idea of becoming a philosopher. He wanted to be an artist. But his father made it clear in no uncertain terms that this was not going to happen. After a long struggle with his father, James finally relented. Then he fell into a severe depression that lasted … 
  16. Refuge
     … Otherwise, the breath just becomes one more stopping off place as you follow your trap lines around. But if you stay here, you can create a really nice state of becoming. Now, we all know that becoming is one of the causes of suffering. But if you learn how to do it well, it becomes the path to the end of suffering. Becoming is … 
  17. Frame Your Questions Well
     … It can be sensual craving or latent craving for becoming or even craving for non-becoming. If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn’t do it. As he said, one of the great insights he gained was seeing that even in the craving for non-becoming, there is some becoming. This can be either because you take on the identity of someone … 
  18. Concentration Develops Right View
     … Yes, these movements of the mind for sensuality, becoming, and non-becoming really do create suffering. It may not be blatant suffering, it may just qualify as stress, but it’s the same sort of thing. And in getting more and more specific, right view becomes effective. You’ve learned actually where are the valleys and the canyons in your continental shelf, so that … 
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  20. Adjust the Flame
     … You see how the mind state creates a state of becoming around the object, a sense of you focused on that object, and the world in which you and the object exist. As you do this, you begin to realize that these levels of becoming are not a given. You actually create them. Getting the mind into concentration helps you see the process of … 
  21. Becoming Capable of Happiness
     … What am I becoming right now?” That’s a question the Buddha has you ask yourself every day. The reason he has you ask it is because you can do something about it: What you’re becoming comes from your actions. The person you are right now is the product of actions of the past plus actions in the present moment. If you couldn … 
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