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- Focus Strengthens the Mind
- Focus on the Doing
- De-thinking… Sometimes it requires changing the point of your focus; sometimes it requires changing the quality of your focus; sometimes it requires changing your concept of what it means to be focused: “Who’s focusing?” “Is the mind in one spot and then trying to focus the mind in that one spot on another spot?” “Well, what does that do?” “Can you think of the …
- A Path of Skills… Then focus on your breath. Take a couple of good, long, deep in-and-out breaths. Notice where you feel the breath in the body. Wherever there are sensations that enable you to know, “Now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out,” focus on those sensations. Then notice if they’re comfortable. If they are, keep it up. If they …
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- DecisionsSomeone once asked where your focus should be when you practice: on the present moment or on a future goal? And the answer is both. In other words, you focus on the present moment with a purpose of shaping it to attain a future goal. The goals we have need to be implemented in the present moment for them to stay with us, for …
- A Flammable Mind… Focus on your breath; focus on getting a sense of nourishment out of the breath. You know that this is not the ultimate goal that you’re working on, but it is the path that leads you there. If you focus full attention on the path, you get to the goal. You don’t always keep second-guessing the goal or try to jump …
- Endurance… So learn to put up with the things you have to put up with, so that you can focus on curing the real problem, which is the problem of the mind. Focus on your own weaknesses, and not on the irritating weaknesses of other people. That kind of focus is what keeps you in line with the Dhamma. You’re practicing the Dhamma in …
- Jhana: Responsible Happiness… When there’s a sense of focus, there are going to be physical symptoms around the focus. But with time you begin to see that the focus and the symptoms are separate, so that if you’re focusing, say, on the nose or in the middle of the head, the sense of pressure that might build up around that focus isn’t necessary. Try …
- Here to Learn… There’s bound to be desire in the practice, but learn how to focus your desire on the causes. Then focus your desire on learning how to observe what you do, how to observe the results of what you do. When you have this attitude, you find you can put up with just about anything. You may be sitting here in pain. Well, observe …
- An Issue of Control… What are you going to focus on? How are you going to focus on it? You can focus on the pleasure potentials in a way that can give rise to really intense pleasure. You can focus on the pain potentials in a way that gives rise to intense pain. Or you can focus on them in a way in which you know there’s …
- The Power of Attention… what you focus your attention on and how you focus your attention. You can see a good kamma seed, but if you focus on it in the wrong way, you can suffer from it. Or vice versa. There may be a bad kamma seed, but if you focus on it in the right way, you don’t have to suffer. It’s because of …
- Tenacity… So, you focus in on the level of energy that’s free of the waves of rapture. You’ll notice this if you’re really continuous in your focus. You begin to see even with the continuous focus, that there will occasionally be a little bit of evaluation around it to make sure it’s going okay. It’s that little bit of evaluation …
- Pulling Out of the NarrativesWhen you meditate, you have to be selective in what you focus on. There are all kinds of things you could focus on right now: the sound of the crickets, the distant sound of the traffic, the sound of the trees being watered, aches and pains in different parts of your body, different kinds of thoughts coming up. There’s lots of stuff coming …
- The Steadiness of Your Gaze… When you focus on the breath, you want to become one with the breath. When you focus on the body, let your awareness become one with the body — not an awareness ready to jump someplace else, but an awareness that seeps into the body, saturating everything down to your fingers and toes. The steadiness of your gaze is what’s going to help things …
- Don’t Focus on Jhana, Focus on the Breath… In other words, you don’t focus on jhana. You focus on the breath. You don’t focus on saying, “I want to do this level or that level.” You just keep focused on this question of, “How can I get the breath and the mind really snugly together? And how can I let go of anything that seems unnecessary so that it doesn …
- Giving Weight… Try to notice, when you look at something, how your focus—not only the focus of your eyes, but also the focus of your whole consciousness—seems to go out to that object. When that happens, you’ve lost your center, you’ve lost your foundation. Pull it back in. If you get used to staying here, then when you sit and meditate, it …
- For Your Future’s Sake… In other words, you focus on what you’re doing right now, but you’re thinking about what the long-term consequences are going to be. There are some people who think that we should focus on the present moment so much that we forget about the future, not even think about it. Some say that if you say you’re doing something now …
- A Cure for the Sluggish Mind… So which truth right now would be energizing? Which place, when you focus your thoughts, will remind you that you’ve got to learn how to energize yourself. You’ve got to learn how to depend on yourself, to find your resources inside—they are there. We have good potentials, we have bad potentials, so why focus on the bad ones? Focus on your …
- Samsara… So you focus on the breath, you focus on form as a topic of meditation, as a topic of absorption, a theme for meditation. Rather than worrying about whether it’s a beautiful shape or not, one you like or one you dislike, you just focus in on how it feels from within and turn it into an awakened shape. In other words, when …
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