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  2. Right Effort
     … Sometimes you hear that if concentration comes, just note the fact the concentration is there, don’t get attached to it. Just watch it go away, and you’ll see the truth of inconstancy. That’s not what the Buddha taught. Your duty here, once you’ve given rise to it, is to generate the desire to develop it, to bring it to culmination … 
  3. An Examined Life
     … In other words, you have to use your discernment to cut away a lot of the mind’s attachments before it’s even willing to settle down. So try to think about these issues if you find the mind running rampant. As the chant just now said, the world is swept away. It does not endure. Everything is very, very impermanent. The passage comes … 
  4. Right Action
     … I don’t know anybody who’s broken the five precepts from being attached to the pleasure of jhana. So jhana is a safe place; sensuality is a dangerous place to be. Always keep that in mind. In this way, you take the principles of right action and bring them inside so that you have your own inner wealth to build on. There’s … 
  5. Putting Aside the World
     … You’ve had all these attachments, all these relationships and then what happens? They end. Each person goes his or her separate way. When you meet up again, you don’t know each other. In that way, our relatives are actually strangers. There’s another passage where there’s a woman who’s lost her daughter and is in the cemetery grieving over her … 
  6. A Slave to Craving
     … You see through your attachments, your misguided ideas, realizing that you can’t base true happiness on things that are inconstant, stressful, and not self. Then finally: The mind, when fostered with discernment, is released from all its effluents, in other words, all the things that come bubbling up out of the mind that make us go flowing out looking for happiness outside. When … 
  7. Sense Pleasures & Sensuality
     … If you get attached to a particular sensual pleasure, you’re going to have to put yourself in a position where it can be taken away from you. The image is of a hawk that has a piece of meat: It takes off, and other hawks, crows, and kites take after it to pull the meat away. If it doesn’t let go, it … 
  8. Sense Restraint
     … As you hold to these precepts, you begin to realize how much you’re attached to these sensations. If you start thirsting after them, you start thinking about them, then it’s a sign that you’re used to thinking about them. You usually don’t notice that because there’s no restraint. But when you put restraint on yourself, then you begin to … 
  9. Focused on Your Duties
     … If you can see through your attachments here, can understand what it is that keeps the mind trapped in the process of fabrication, so much the better. But in every case, the work is done right here. If it doesn’t get done right here, it’s not going to get done. This is why we keep death in the background as our topic … 
  10. Practice in Dying Skillfully
     … What was peculiar about it was that they were able to get in touch with her through the meditation and ask her, “What would help you give up your attachment?” First she told them about the fortune. But then, after they dug down and found it, she was still hanging around the tree. She couldn’t let go of the tree. She told them … 
  11. The Dhamma Wheel
     … The fantasizing is what we’re really attached to. Craving for becoming is craving to take on an identity in a particular world of experience based on a desire, hoping to use that identity within that world to attain the desire. And craving for non-becoming is when you’ve taken on an identity in a world of experience and you want it to … 
  12. You Can Make a Difference
     … And we should receive the teachings as a pure gift, and appreciate that there are no strings attached. It’s offered freely, by someone who saw that we really need it. So, as long as we appreciate of the fact that we really need the training, we really need the teaching, we can benefit from it—out of a sense of gratitude for all … 
  13. Inner Wealth Management
     … Don’t be afraid of getting stuck on the pleasure of concentration, because you have to get stuck here first so that you can pull away your attachments to unskillful thoughts: thoughts of sensuality, thoughts of ill will, fearful thoughts, jealous thoughts. You want to give the mind good food so that it can stop feeding on its old garbage. But you have to … 
  14. Now & at Death
     … You ask yourself, “Is this body something I really want to get involved with?” As the Buddha recommended, if you find, when you’re dying, that you’re still attached to human sensual pleasures, remind yourself that there are better sensual pleasures higher up in the deva realms. And if you’re going to be reborn there, it’s not the case that you … 
  15. The Wheel of Dhamma
     … Don’t be afraid of getting attached to nice states of mind, because they’re your path. Then again, though, you don’t latch on to them as the end in and of themselves, but you do hold on to them as your path. If you let go of the path, what have you got? You’ve got nothing. That’s why you don … 
  16. Part V : Finding a Teacher
     … I don’t need them because they come with strings attached. They come with poison for the mind.” Finally, there’s discernment—which, in this context, is defined as discernment of arising and passing away. What this means is that you learn to look into the mind to see exactly how it’s creating suffering out of things where it doesn’t have to … 
  17. Mature Strategies
     … It’s finally willing to give the Buddha’s approaches a try, to replace our old strategies — which have had some success, but not total success, but to which we’re so attached — with new strategies that promise something more. Although those new strategies may initially seem counterintuitive, they make more and more sense as you get to know them. And they really do … 
  18. Responsible for Your Goodness
     … We’re attached to things that are causing suffering because we don’t see the connection—or if we see the connection, we don’t think there’s any alternative. So when the Buddha talks about the path, it’s to remind us that there are alternatives. Good ones. And when he does talk about the cessation of suffering, he tells us enough to … 
  19. Taking Responsibility
     … We feel that if we’re being asked to give up our attachment to sensual pleasure, we’d have nothing left but pain. One of the purposes of the practice is to show you that there is an alternative. You can get the mind into good strong states of concentration that don’t depend on sensual passion. So there is another alternative, but the … 
  20. Admit Your Stupidity
     … I think I’ll stop having attachment.” The mind doesn’t work that way, because we’ll be seeing, as we get to know the mind, that it tends to feed. To think that you can simply give up feeding by realizing that food is impermanent is not very realistic. You have to understand why the mind is feeding on things that are unhealthy … 
  21. Poison Your Fantasies
     … There’s a very naïve idea about insight that all you have to do is realize that things arise and pass away, things are made out of fabrications, and that’s enough to let go of any attachment you might have to them. But that’s like thinking that when there’s a sexually arousing picture on your computer screen, and you know that … 
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