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  2. A Goal Without Limits
     … It’s just that because you have no attachments when you’re fully awakened you can’t be defined. When you can’t be defined, you can’t be described as existing or non-existing or both or neither or anything else. There are some people who advocate the idea that you’re basically nothing after gaining awakening and passing away, saying that when … 
  3. Obsessive Thinking
     … That’s where you use your discernment to peel away your attachments. You may not be able to uproot them entirely, but as long as you can step back from them and stop feeding them—because we do feed them with our attention: When there’s a sense that they’re not really interesting anymore, they don’t really serve a purpose, that’s … 
  4. True for What Purpose?
     … No matter how much you’ve been attached to it, no matter how large a role it has played in your life so far, you have to learn how to take it apart in line with the Buddha’s grammar, so that you can see which aspects of the lessons you’ve learned from your life are actually going to be helpful in the … 
  5. At Home in Jhana
     … These are all the raw materials you need to understand to see where your attachments are. As the Buddha said, the knowledge that puts an end to what they call mental fermentation or mental effluents—the things that darken the mind, that trouble the mind: The knowledge of putting an end to these things comes from being in one of these states of jhana … 
  6. Responsible for Your Actions
     … If you don’t believe that, then you don’t really care. “Why would I bother being responsible? Or responsible to the extent that I didn’t want to harm anybody at all?” Conviction is what gives you the strength to carry through with the persistence that’s needed to keep at this process of sorting through your thoughts, sorting through your attachments, and … 
  7. Mindful & Grateful for Lessons in Freedom
     … You’re free from your attachment. You’re able to rise above these things. You get a sense of your worth as a person and that there’s a higher level of happiness that comes when you don’t simply give in to your appetites. You see the benefits of sharing, and you realize you’re free to make that choice. Similarly with the … 
  8. Seclusion
     … So you’d be better to drop your attachment to them. Again, the Buddha’s not saying that our quest for happiness is wrong. He’s saying simply that we’re doing it in the wrong way, we’re doing it unskillfully, and the skills that really work are things we wouldn’t anticipate. Often, they’re counterintuitive. We each look for my happiness … 
  9. Cause & Effect Right Now
     … It’s in using your powers of observation in getting the mind to settle down that you develop the discernment that you’re going to use in order to drop any of your attachments, clingings, ignorance, cravings—whatever it is that’s contributing to that burden of stress that you keep churning out for yourself. So when the Buddha taught that causal principle, he … 
  10. Fires of the Mind
     … It was freed from its attachment to its fuel, freed from its clinging, freed from its agitation. Because a real surprise as you get the mind quiet like this is that there’s still an element of stress, there’s still an element of change. But it’s a lot more subtle than it was before. There’s still a burning going on in … 
  11. Great Expectations
     … They say, “Isn’t there righteous anger?” Actually, righteous anger is probably one of the worst kinds because there’s a lot of attachment there. Actually, it’s perfectly possible to live in the world, see what’s wrong with what’s going on, and not be angry about it. In fact, the more matter-of-fact you are about what’s wrong, then … 
  12. Saṃvega & Pasāda
     … As the Buddha said, if you don’t have the sense of pleasure that comes from getting the mind into concentration, then no matter how much you may see the drawbacks of sensuality—of being attached to the body—you’re going to go back to sensuality. The mind needs pleasure for its food, so learn how to feed inside, on the pleasure of … 
  13. You Can Do Better
     … He said that you have to be very careful because if it gets really strong, you’re going to get attached. He said the physical pleasure of concentration comes from tactile sensations, which means it’s a sensual pleasure. Wanting it is craving for sensuality. Well, the pleasure of concentration is not sensual, and it’s not a tactile sensation. It has to do … 
  14. Being Your Own Teacher
     … If your calculation includes only this one lifetime, you’re really going to limit your sense of where the dangers are in the mind—what an act of desire or an act of attachment might do—which means that you end up with a lot of things in the mind that don’t get probed, don’t get investigated because they seem perfectly innocuous … 
  15. The Door of the Cage (2)
     … This helps loosen up attachments to unskillful views about the world—that no matter how real they may seem, you do have the choice to look at other aspects of reality that give you more encouragement to practice, give you more reason to practice. And same with the various selves that you could be identifying with: Do you really want to identify with the … 
  16. A Blameless Happiness
     … What is your intention right now? Is your intention to hold onto the body? Or are you willing to let go of some things that you thought you couldn’t do without, but you might actually be better off if you could let go of some of that attachment? What is your perception of the body? What is your perception of the pain? How … 
  17. Comprehending Clinging
     … But to adopt these right forms of clinging—notice that views, habits and practices, and a sense of the self are there, but nothing about sensuality on the path—you also have to clear away your other forms of attachment. Sensuality, of course, is the big one. It’s going to pull you off if you’re not careful. This is why you have … 
  18. The Reasonable Path
     … If our problem is attachment for pleasures, he had told himself, then let’s just totally avoid all kinds of pleasure, even to the extent of denying all the processes of the body. He suppressed his breathing. For a while he was even going to stop eating altogether, but the devas came and said, “If you stop eating, we’re going to pour divine … 
  19. The Three Perceptions & Their Opposites
     … You can hold on to this insight into inconstancy, stress, and not-self and use it to pry away your attachments to lots of things. But you have to remember ultimately that these insights, too, are perceptions. Now, the Buddha never called the three characteristics three characteristics; they’re perceptions. And as he said, perceptions, no matter how perceptive they may be, are essentially … 
  20. Use Your Imagination
     … When they talk about not being attached to outcome, it means that you’re willing to test things. If something doesn’t work out, you admit that it doesn’t work out, but that doesn’t mean you just leave it at that. You try to figure out what went wrong and then try to come up with a new solution. That story I … 
  21. Strong Through Mindfulness
     … In this case, the point that Ajaan Lee is making has to do with attachment, clinging. So you want to keep these images in mind, you want to keep these words in mind, because they provide you with values—even when everything else gets stripped away in your life, as it will. As the Buddha said, we’re subject to aging, illness, and death … 
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