Search results for: "Conviction"

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  2. Confidence & Conviction
  3. Conviction in Kamma
  4. Intelligent Conviction (outdoors)
  5. Strength of Conviction
  6. Conviction as Your Companion
  7. Questioning & Conviction
    Questioning & Conviction October 3, 2008 They’ve conducted experiments where they put people under hypnosis and tell them that when they get out of hypnosis, they’ll do something at a certain signal. And sure enough they come out of hypnosis and, at the signal, they do it—they climb a ladder, wave a hand, or whatever. When they’re asked, “Why did you … 
  8. Strength of Conviction
    Strength of Conviction December 5, 2020 As the pandemic wears on, you want to make sure you don’t wear out. You look around and you see a lot of people misbehaving. It’s because of a lack of strength. A lack of endurance. It’s when people feel weak and threatened that they misbehave. They create a lot of suffering for themselves and … 
  9. Pro-self, Pro-help
     … Then finally, your conviction doesn’t just sit there. It actually has an impact on your actions. You try to act in a way that avoids harm to yourself and other people. All of that comes under conviction. Once you have that conviction, then persistence or effort comes in as the next strength. Here again, we see how having this kind of conviction requires … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. The Armored Car
     … The horses, he said, were conviction and discernment. That, of course would correspond to the engine of the car. This is what drives us: our conviction that we don’t want to stay stuck in suffering, that there’s a path out, and that we’re capable of doing it. In other words, we have conviction in the Dhamma and we have conviction in … 
  12. Firm in Your Intent
     … And the same holds for the five strengths, starting with conviction. Concentration in conviction means you have to stay with that conviction. The same with persistence: You have to stick with the program, which is that if any unskillful qualities could arise in your mind, you do your best to prevent them. If they have arisen, you do your best to get rid of … 
  13. Strength of Conviction
     … It finally arrives at a strength that’s totally independent, where it’s not just conviction. It’s knowledge that keeps you going, for you’ve confirmed it in yourself. You’ve developed that strength within yourself, and you can see how far it can lead you. So when we talk about conviction in the Buddha’s awakening, it basically means conviction in your … 
  14. Strengthening Conviction
    Strengthening Conviction January 1, 2012 Meditating, strengthening the mind, is very similar to strengthening the body. You have some strength to begin with, and you use that strength to develop further strength. In Thai, the word for exercising is awk kamlang, which means to put forth energy. And in putting it forth, you gain something in return. So as you meditate, you have to … 
  15. A Refuge in Quiescence
     … It’s part of having conviction in the Buddha and the Dhamma that we take it on. When that conviction becomes dominant in the mind, the Buddha calls that the faculty of conviction. The Pali word indrīya, which is commonly translated as faculty, means dominant factor. When that conviction is dominant in your mind, then you’re protected, but the protection is not totally … 
  16. Questioning Your Way to Certainty
     … A certain amount of conviction does have to come into play here: the conviction that you can learn from what’s actually happening in your own body and mind, that you have the necessary powers of observation, and that right here is where you’re going to learn about these things. You don’t have to depend on some text or some god or … 
  17. Faith
     … You may have not been generous in the past, but you’ve got the opportunity now to practice the Dhamma.” So this quality of conviction is what sees us through. When things are going easy, the idea of having conviction doesn’t speak that much to us. But when things get hard: We look at our lives, we look at the people around us … 
  18. The World of Conviction
    The World of Conviction August 30, 2023 Sometimes you read that the Buddha was a really nice guy. He had some interesting ideas. He didn’t push them on anybody. He didn’t think that they were necessarily true for anyone else, but they had worked for him and they might work for you. He didn’t mean them as absolute truths. But when … 
  19. Inner Refuge Through Inner Strength
     … The first is conviction—conviction in the Buddha’s awakening, the three knowledges he gained on the night of his awakening, and most importantly the knowledge he gained about kamma: that actions have results, and that the results depend on the intentions inspiring the action and the skill with which you carry it out. And you really do have the choice—you have the … 
  20. The Rewards of Stream Entry
     … The texts say that they’re confirmed in their conviction in the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha. And they have precepts that are pleasing to the noble ones: untorn, conducive to concentration. We look at ourselves and say, “Well, we have conviction in the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha, too. And we observe the five precepts. What’s the difference?” The difference … 
  21. Part V : Finding a Teacher
     … This is why virtue flows from conviction. Some texts actually say that virtue that’s pleasing to the noble ones is actually an aspect of conviction. Another quality in admirable friendship that goes with conviction is generosity. You see the things you have to give up in order to develop skillful qualities in the mind, and you’re willing to give them up. The … 
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