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- Feeding Frenzy: Dependent Co-arising… When you learn to feed here, you really develop the various strengths of the mind—conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment—that can strengthen it to the point where ultimately it doesn’t need to feed anymore. That’s a great gift right there, both to yourself and to everyone around you.
- Gather Around the Breath… Ajaan Suwat used to talk about how it’s important to develop an attitude of confidence and conviction in what you’re doing here. And part of that has to do with thinking about the person who found this path—someone who sacrificed everything to find the ultimate happiness. Then, when he had found it, he didn’t try to sell it. He offered …
- Right Next to Ignorance… In the beginning, you’re working *not *with knowledge; you’re working on a conviction that this is going to be a good place to look. You get used to staying here, because ignorance is not going to show itself quickly. So you’ve got to be patient. You can’t say, “Well, I don’t like doing this. My mind doesn’t settle …
- Sensitivity & Strength… By that he meant developing an attitude of confidence, conviction, and a sense of feeling inspired by the opportunity to sit here and develop the mind. In other words, get yourself in the right mood to meditate. Have the right attitude toward the meditation. You’re here to learn something. Part of the meditation involves following a particular technique, but not just following the …
- Respect… But he also knew if he said that to Ajaan Lee right at that point, Ajaan Lee would say, “Well, if you don’t have the conviction to do it, I’ll find someone else who does.” So Ajaan Fuang didn’t say anything. The next day he got all the able-bodied monks and novices in the monastery down under the ordination hall …
- The Mind’s Eating Disorders… Give it conviction in the practice. That strengthens you. Make it persistent, be mindful, develop concentration so that you can develop the discernment that sees these things clearly. This is how you strengthen the mind to the point where it finds something inside that doesn’t need to feed, and that’s when all your eating disorders, subtle and obvious, will end.
- Virtuous Beginnings… We’re consummate in virtue, consummate in generosity, consummate in conviction, consummate in discernment. If we aren’t able to make our way out of this continual round of coming back, coming back, virtue at least makes sure that we arrange a soft landing for ourselves, that we come back in good circumstances, circumstances that allow us to take up the path again with …
- Training for Dispassion… It’s simply that our admirable friends show us—through their qualities of discernment, virtue, relinquishment, and conviction—that these things are possible and they can lead to genuine happiness: a happiness that we might not have imagined otherwise. So we depend on them to open these possibilities to us. But at the same time, we have to be up for the task. We …
- The Allure of Self… We have to have the conviction that, yes, there is something better, so that when we look at our various strategies — this has to do with however we define our self in any interaction with anybody else—we have to realize that the things that we’re doing to defend ourselves, to keep ourselves safe, are actually getting in the way of a truer …
- The Best News in the World… the conviction that there must be something deathless, and that there must be some way it can be attained by human effort. So he cast about for another possible way. He came across right concentration. He had entered right concentration spontaneously when he was a child. He recollected that. Could this be the way? Something inside him said, “Yes.” So he stuck with it …
- Being Right… This is why conviction is one of the most basic qualities you have to bring to the path. It’s like someone lost in the forest. If you’re convinced that there’s no way out, there will be no way out, at least for you. If you’re convinced that there’s a way out, then when there is a way out, you …
- Kindfulness… breath, it’s not just the breath you’re feeding on. You’re also feeding on the good qualities you’re developing in the mind as you stick with the breath: conviction, persistence, mindfulness, alertness, concentration, discernment, goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, equanimity. These are all good qualities to develop. As for the word qualities here, it’s best to think of them as habits …
- Why We Practice the Way We Do… Let those with ears show forth their conviction.” In other words, he had found something that doesn’t die: a happiness that was not touched by death because it’s outside of space and time. It was an amazing discovery. We hear talk about the deathless, the deathless, and it’s become just kind of a buzz word that begins to mean very little …
- Two Kinds of Cross-Questioning… That’s the point, he said, when your conviction is confirmed. But how do you see that? By examining your own actions and getting more and more skillful in how you think and how you act and how you speak. You do that through this double process of, one, learning how to question your way to an understanding of the teachings, and then, two …
- The Need for Right View… The first level of right view is conviction in the principle of kamma: that there are good and bad actions that lead to good and bad results, which are determined by the quality of intention behind the action. A lot of us resist the teaching on kamma because we tend to run into it mostly when we find ourselves facing a bad situation, and …
- The Dhamma Is in the Method … But sometimes you just want to get back at somebody, with the conviction that you’re right about wanting to see them suffer. But your rightness is creating a lot of trouble. There are ways of being right and yet wrong at the same time. So, you want to learn how to shed those. Then the pair of contentment and persistence: You’re content …
- 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 …
- Guardian Meditations… It starts with conviction in your actions: that your actions are real, that they really do have results, and that the quality of the results is determined by the quality of the mental state engendering the action. It’s within this context that the four noble truths make sense. After all, suffering is a result of a particular mental action, or a series of …
- Equanimity… s fabricated, too. This is where the interesting passage comes in where the Buddha says you apply that same analysis to what are called the five strengths or the five faculties: 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 …
- Lessons in Fabrication… That’s why that’s the center of conviction: being convinced of the Buddha’s awakening. Then, look at everything you’re going to do, and say, and think in light of the implications of that awakening. Don’t just deal with concepts like not-self, or emptiness. Think of what his awakening means in terms of everything down to what to do when …
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