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- Values… And even though we may know better, we tend to persist with our old bad habits. This is where our values come in. Understanding why it’s important to focus on training the mind, why it’s important to have this sense of centered well- being: This comes in with the element of right effort called generating desire. You have to make yourself want …
- Equanimity Isn’t Nibbana… You work on your conviction, your persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment as healthy food for the mind. These are qualities developed on the path that strengthen the mind. And especially discernment: understanding what you’re doing, the results of what you’re doing, seeing where the unnecessary stress is in all of this, so that you let go of whatever activities are causing that …
- Arising & Passing Away… That perception is really persistent, really tenacious. There are doctors who work in hospitals,doing autopsies, yet they can still go home and sleep with their spouses. What they see about the body in the hospital stays in the hospital. It’s like Las Vegas: Whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. What they see when they have to take a corpse apart stays …
- Equanimity… conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. You see their origination, too. You see their passing away. You see their allure. You see their allure in helping you to get past a lot of the suffering you’ve been inflicting on yourself. You also see their drawbacks: They’re fabricated; you have to keep on making them, keep on intending in their direction. There comes …
- Ups & Downs… Years back, we had a very persistent vine down in the southeast corner of the monastery. We arranged for somebody to go down and dig it out, and we thought it had been taken care of. Then a few months later we went back, and it was spreading all over the place again. We had somebody else to go down and dig it out …
- The Sublime Attitudes… mindfulness, alertness, concentration, discernment, persistence, truthfulness, perseverance. As we work at these qualities, as we put them into action, they get strengthened and become more and more the wise arbitrators of our lives, pointing our lives in the direction we really want to go. Then the final reflection builds on that: “Whatever we do for good or for evil, to that will we fall …
- How & Why We Meditate… It’s a path that requires an awful lot of attention and a lot of persistence, patience. You really do have to commit yourself to this. We’re working on a big problem, and it takes time and effort to break the big problem down to manageable bits so we can understand: “Oh, this is why I’ve been doing this all along. And …
- Skillful Effort… Then there’s persistence, the ability to stick with something over time. Intent: Your ability to focus lots of attention to what you’re doing, and the results of what you’re doing. And finally there’s a quality in Pali called vimansa, which translates as analysis, discrimination, the ability to notice what’s working and what’s not working, and also the ingenuity …
- The Breath All the Way… That’s your persistence, energy, effort as a factor for awakening. As you do these things skillfully, refreshment and ease arise: Those are the rapture and the serenity factors for awakening. You develop concentration and the ability to watch with equanimity all these things as they’re happening. When you have all these seven factors together, they’re the qualities you need to bring …
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