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  2. A Generosity of Spirit
     … And particularly as you give up things—and generosity doesn’t mean just giving up things, but also giving up your attachment to, say, your knowledge, wanting to hold it back from other people, or wanting to hold back your energy from other people—when you learn how to overcome that resistance, you develop generosity of spirit. This is probably one of the most … 
  3. Four Noble Truths to One
     … But as the factors of the path get more solid, and your attachments to things aside from the path get weaker, that’s when you can actually turn this analysis on the path itself. You turn right view on itself. Right view looks at views, looks at all mental activities, in terms of action and result: “What is the act of holding to a … 
  4. No-Tech Meditation
     … If you get attached to that place, you’re trapped in the parameters of how space and time relate to that place. It’s all because of your actions. So, meditation is something you do and something you watch for yourself. The commitment in the doing and the sensitivity in the reflection will allow you to see the things that will open up new … 
  5. Look after Your Baby
     … And when that feeler attaches to something, it goes, like a spider casting its web filament to see if it will catch something. So watch out for the filament. Watch out for the feeler. The mind may be with the breath, or part of the mind is with the breath, but it’s not the whole thing. Something else is already sneaking off to … 
  6. Where Your Mind Gravitates
     … But in particular, you release it from whatever its attachments may be. Then you go back to that step of being sensitive again. It goes around and around and around. All too often you deal with a problem once and it’s not really dealt with. It’s going to have another angle the next time around. The mind’s like a little child … 
  7. Take Care of Your Tools
     … And don’t be afraid of getting attached to the concentration. As Ajaan Fuang used to say, you have to be crazy about the meditation in order to do it well: looking for every chance to get in touch with the breath, looking for every chance to get the mind to settle down. Whatever comes up in the course the concentration, there’s nothing … 
  8. Sober Up
     … That’s going to involve looking at all the things that you’re attached to and realizing that a lot of them you’re going to have to let go. And it’s going to require work. Some of the causes of suffering, the Buddha says, go away when you simply look at them. But there are a lot that require work. You have … 
  9. Events as Events
     … When it has that sense of well-being, it can look at its old attachments, the old ways it had of thinking and looking, and realize, “Okay, that way of doing things actually causes stress, and I don’t have to do it.” When you realize that it’s stressful and unnecessary, why would you hold on? You don’t even have to think … 
  10. Magha Puja: Showing Respect with the Practice
     … You may be able to stay away from them for a while, but you haven’t really cut your attachment to them. Eventually the mind will find its way back to them. So you’ve got to develop this sense of well-being inside. And you take refuge here. The idea of taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha is not … 
  11. What Made the Buddha Exclaim
     … He sees people behaving in ways that are really harmful for themselves and for the people around them—and they’re so ignorant and so blind and so attached to what they’re doing. You have to remember his perspective. He’s coming from the night of his awakening, when he not only attained nibban but also saw how karma works in the world … 
  12. Just One Person
     … You figure out what you’re doing that’s skillful, what you’re doing that’s not skillful, and you sort things out with no sense of nostalgia, no sense of attachment, but with a clear sense that what you do matters. So you want to be careful about what you’re doing right now. That requires your full attention, all of your mental … 
  13. The Buddha’s Secret Weapon
     … He asked himself: “Is this the path? Maybe this is the path to the end of suffering.” And something in his mind said, “This could be it.” Then the question was, “Why am I afraid of that sense of well-being, the pleasure and rapture that come from that? Is there any blame attached to it?” No, none. So he gave that path a … 
  14. What Are You Doing?
     … Often we’re attached to things not because we think they’re permanent or have a substance but simply because we think that the pleasure we get out of them is worth the effort that goes into getting it. People get married realizing that the marriage is not going to last forever. There are all kinds of things that people hold onto in full … 
  15. Mindfulness of Breathing: Four in One
     … the mind has to have a sense of well-being and stability so that it doesn’t feel threatened by the things it doesn’t like, and it’s not so attached to things that it does like—but that are not quite as skillful as you may have thought. It’s easier to accept the things that are unpleasant about your own mind … 
  16. The Uncertain Present
     … We’re attached to them because we feel the need to feed. As long as the mind is weak, it does need to feed, so you have to be careful about what you feed on and how you do it. So which aggregates are you going to foster? Which type of form are you now going to develop? As you focus on the breath … 
  17. The Web of Pain
     … We usually think of insight simply as the ability to see things arising and passing away, which is supposed to do away with our attachment to them. Well, it’s important to see things arising and passing away, but then you have to realize that you’ve been sticking them together in a particular way through your perceptions. But that’s not enough. You … 
  18. Respecting Death
     … The second is that we’re going to have to abandon the body that we’re so attached to. The third is, if we’ve done anything cruel in life, there’s always a possibility that we’re going to have to suffer the consequences of that cruelty. And the fourth is being uncertain about the true Dhamma. This is the important one. If … 
  19. Older than the Cosmos
     … Even in just one lifetime, there are a lot of things you do, there are a lot of things that you’re attached to, and they just slip from your fingers. I know a lot of people have been commenting on how living in the pandemic, living in constrained circumstances, has gotten them thinking a lot about the past: the things they miss from … 
  20. Stop Weaving
     … If the action was skillful, you often get attached to the result. You want it to keep on going. Either way, you give rise to defilements in the mind, and that’s the third cycle. Then, under the power that defilement, you act again, and the cycle just keeps going around. Now, you can’t cut the cycle between the action and the result … 
  21. Hope
     … When you finally cut your attachments, the mind will head toward peace. That’s what you want, that’s what you hope for. It’s not an empty hope, because you’ve been working in that direction—inclining the mind toward peace, toward the direction you want. So don’t think that you’re stuck where you are or that you have to stay … 
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