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- Feelings of Pain… the desire to do it, the persistence, being intent on paying careful attention to what’s happening, and using your powers of analysis to figure out what might work. Ajaan Fuang used to say, with regard to the powers of analysis, that they also include your ingenuity. Sometimes you have to come up with new techniques, new approaches. Be willing to try something new …
- May I Look After Myself with Ease… But you just have to be persistent and patient, and after a while you find that they go away. So here you are with a good shelter, a comfortable home with good food. That sense of ease and rapture is very nourishing. But there will be the part of the mind that says, “Wait a minute. I’ve got other things I’ve got …
- Cleaning up Your Personal Environment… But by steady persistence and by doing what they do best, they create a space for themselves. And so it should be with your practice. There’s a set of instructions for new monks that helps new monks get started on their way as new monks, but it’s also a useful list for lay people as they go about their practice outside of …
- Inner Strength, Inner Wealth… Built on that is your persistence: your willingness just to stick with it, stick with it. If you find yourself falling down, falling off the path, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and just keep on going. You don’t let yourself get discouraged. There was a woman who’d be practicing with Ajaan Fuang many years. She had good powers of concentration …
- Filling in the Buddha’s Outline… The same with the other bases of success, like persistence: Your efforts may be too much, too little. The focus of your intent may be too narrow or too broad, and your analysis may be too much or too little. So you’ve got to figure out what’s right for here right now, and the results will be the means by which you …
- Clinging & Feeding… Then we feed the mind with conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment, all of which are good food for the mind. These are the things that strengthen us, so that we can manage the path. So the Buddha doesn’t try to starve us right from the start. He simply tells us to take a different approach to our feeding. Feed on good food …
- Guarding Against Trouble… That’s persistence as a factor for awakening. When you do it right, it should lead to a sense of rapture, a sense of fullness, sometimes a sense of energy coursing through the body, and that can lead to calm. Sometimes the rapture can get you stirred up, but it nourishes something in the body and the mind. When you don’t need that …
- 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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