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  2. The Dhamma in Line with the Dhamma
  3. Judging the Dhamma
     … She asked for some brief Dhamma instructions that she could take and use to meditate on her own, and he gave her some standards for judging what’s Dhamma and what’s not Dhamma. These standards apply not only to teachings you’ve picked up from other people, other sources, but also to thoughts that come into the mind. In other words, when a … 
  4. The Dhamma Channel
     … The Dhamma’s all around. After all, the Buddha didn’t make up the Dhamma; he discovered it. And this is how he discovered it: by getting his mind really quiet and observant. The trick is learning how to tune in so you can hear the Dhamma. We’re like those satellites that are trying to detect infrared radiation, and the infrared detector has … 
  5. A Well-stocked Memory
     … In this sense, mindfulness is being able to memorize a lot of the Dhamma. Remember that back in the beginning, they didn’t write the Dhamma down. People learned the Dhamma by listening to it and memorizing it, and there was a very systematic way of memorizing long passages of Dhamma. We’ve lost that ability now. Our memories get shorter and shorter because … 
  6. Gaining the Dhamma Eye
     … The fourth quality is practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma. This means several things. On the one hand, you don’t practice in line with your preferences. You see what the Dhamma requires and you do it. All too often, we practice the Dhamma in accordance with our preferences, and all that does is to keep us stuck in our old ways … 
  7. On Your Own
     … And then the third principle, of course, is the Dhamma, reflecting on the fact that this is really an excellent Dhamma that we’ve found here, an excellent opportunity. It’s not the case that the Dhamma is always available. They talk about long periods between the teachings of one Buddha and the arising of the next Buddha when nobody knows what the Dhamma … 
  8. The Dhamma Wheel Shakes Up the World
     … We’ve got the Dhamma wheel on the wall up there. If we really wanted to depict the Dhamma wheel properly, we’d have to attach a little motor to it to keep it in motion, because the Dhamma wheel keeps spinning. As the devas said, nobody can stop it. It just keeps spinning and spinning. That’s why the Dhamma wheels on King … 
  9. Visakha Puja – True Homage
     … We realize, as we’re here practicing the Dhamma, that the Dhamma is bigger than we. We don’t want to practice the Dhamma in line with our own defilements, in other words, we don’t want to change it in line with our likes and dislikes. We have to change ourselves in line with the principles the Dhamma sets out. After all, these … 
  10. The Buddha’s Conventions
     … As the Buddha said, you want to listen to the true Dhamma from a person of integrity, one who’s basically an admirable friend. The Buddha said that the true Dhamma would disappear not long after he passed away—by which he meant that other versions of Dhamma would get circulated so that the true Dhamma’s monopoly on being the Dhamma would be … 
  11. In Accordance with the Dhamma
     … As the Buddha is saying, if you want a happiness that’s truly harmless, you have to take the Dhamma and put it first. This is why he talks about practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma—in other words, not shaping it to your preferences but shaping your preferences to the Dhamma, shaping yourself to the Dhamma. Because there’s a lot … 
  12. Bringing Right resolve
     … I later mentioned this to Ajaan Suwat, and his comment was, well, his saying that turns his vipassanā jhāna into pariyatti Dhamma, too. That’s also memorized Dhamma, Dhamma put into words. So whose memorized Dhamma do you want? The Buddha’s? Or some meditation teacher’s? It’s important you realize that whatever you hear as Dhamma is Dhamma in words. You can … 
  13. The Language of the Heart (2)
     … You are submitting yourself to the Dhamma, but the Dhamma’s not there to exert power over you. The Dhamma’s there to help you find the way to end your own suffering. After all, your own suffering is probably the most intimate problem you experience. And the Dhamma’s talking directly about intimate aspects of the mind, intimate aspects of the heart. There … 
  14. In Line with the Truth
     … It might be in line with your defilements, but practicing the Dhamma in line with the Dhamma means that you have to change yourself to be in line with the Dhamma. You don’t try to change the Dhamma to be in line with your own ideas. We’ve followed our whims, we’ve followed our desires for who knows how long, and where … 
  15. Go in Brightness
     … Then you practice the Dhamma in accord with the Dhamma. You do this not by inventing Dhamma that you would like it to be, and not by making things up. We see all too much of that all around us. And of course when you don’t follow the Dhamma as it is—in other words, when you try to adjust the Dhamma to … 
  16. Food for Endurance
     … We can listen to the Dhamma, we can see the example of other people who have been practicing the Dhamma and are practicing the Dhamma—and it’s refreshing to the mind. Suppose we lived in a world where there was no Dhamma, where all people could think about was gaining wealth, gaining power, with no sense of right or wrong, no sense of … 
  17. The Dhamma Eye
     … It was because he was truthful and observant that was why he was able to see the Dhamma. We talk about reading the Dhamma and practicing the Dhamma, but it’s only when the Dhamma leads to the realization of the deathless, that’s when you really see it. And that’s when you know for sure that what the Buddha taught was true … 
  18. Breaking Old Habits
     … associating with admirable people, listening to the Dhamma, appropriate attention, and practicing the Dhamma in line with the Dhamma. It sounds like a one, two, three, four process, but it’s not really. All four factors influence one another. As you put the Dhamma into practice, that’s both a test of the Dhamma you’ve heard and also a test of the people … 
  19. Customs of the Noble Ones
    According to Ajaan Suwat, there were two Dhamma themes that Ajaan Mun would talk about more than anything else. One was the customs of the nobles ones, and the other was the practice of the Dhamma in line with the Dhamma. The two themes are essentially the same: They point to the attitude where we practice the Dhamma not in line with our preferences … 
  20. The Lightning Bolt
     … using the Dhamma to question yourself. All too often, we want to change the Dhamma to suit our preferences, measuring the Dhamma against our own ideas. But you have to be willing to measure your own ideas against the Dhamma, measure your own practices against the Dhamma, so that you can see which things arising in the mind are your friends, and which things … 
  21. You Are Not Redundant
     … They claimed their right to practice the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma. And they shaped themselves to be in line with the Dhamma. That was what gave power to their teachings. So the practice of the Dhamma in line with the Dhamma is a defiant act. We’re saying, in effect, that we’re not going to be swayed by the ways of … 
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