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  2. Expanding Your Skill Set
     … You don’t want a happiness that’s going to turn on you and leave you more disappointed than before, which is the way most forms of pleasure in the world deliver. So this is called the self as the governing principle. It puts your desire for true happiness in charge of your practice. Then there’s the reality check of what the Buddha … 
  3. Mastery
     … Those are the only forms of stress and suffering that really weigh on the heart. Once the stress and suffering that comes from craving is done with, then the stresses of the world don’t weigh on the heart at all. That’s an important lesson. If there were stresses and strains in the heart that we couldn’t do anything about, that’d … 
  4. Wise About Pleasure
     … You may think that being reborn as a deva in Zion National Park might be a good thing, but the devas in Zion National Park have their own forms of suffering, their own forms of stress. So you’ve got to keep those limitations in mind, which means that you’ve got to develop another type of pleasure that’s actually part of the … 
  5. Right View Comes First
     … It’s not a sensual object, it’s a pleasure of form—the body as you feel it from within. It doesn’t have most of the drawbacks of sensuality. It doesn’t require that you take anything much from anyone else. The breath is yours. The way you feel the body from inside, that’s your territory. Now, in giving this talk, when … 
  6. The Triple Training
     … Well, those are all different forms of fabrication, and as the Buddha said, when you see things in terms of fabrication—what you’re intentionally doing in the present moment, whether the intention is clear or not, you’re trying to make it clear in that act of clarifying your intentions in the present moment: That’s what insight is all about. So the … 
  7. Working Through the Breath
     … States of becoming like this—What are they? How are they made? As you learn how to do it skillfully in the concentration, then you’re going to learn about other states of becoming as well, along with the processes by which they’re formed.” As he said, it’s like having a chicken laying eggs. If you destroy the eggs, you’ll never … 
  8. High-Level Dhamma
     … It’s considered poor form. When I wrote Ajaan Fuang’s biography to be handed out at the ceremony when his body was placed in the mausoleum, people were surprised that I put in some incidents he had told me about, times when his practice hadn’t gone well, when he’d made mistakes. I thought the stories were inspiring, because seeing that he … 
  9. Respect for Emptiness
     … We look at these things in this way to see through them, to realize that our attachments, our clingings, are nothing but forms of confinement for the mind. When we have concentration as a counterbalance, it’s easy to follow through with this sort of analysis and not get depressed, for it opens the mind to stronger, more lasting, more solid, more spacious states … 
  10. The Noble Eightfold Path to the Deathless
    In every case when the Buddha explains the different sets that form the wings to awakening, he says that each set is developed by developing the noble eightfold path. This means that the path is central. It’s the most important of the sets. You can see this in the Buddha’s teaching career. It was his very first teaching. He started his first … 
  11. The Dhamma Eye
     … fabrication, name-and-form, consciousness, your experience of the six sense media. The fact that you’re aware of the six senses comes from the fact that there’s something in the mind that flows out to the senses. That’s what allows you to have that experience of the senses to begin with. But when you can see the mind at a point … 
  12. Investment Strategies
     … That’s a huge hunk of wealth right there, because it helps you to stock up all these other treasures that the Buddha says form inner wealth. There’s virtue, the realization that if you learn how to abstain from harmful behavior you’re not going to be weighed down by regret and unfortunate memories, because the regret tends to cause you to want … 
  13. The Uses of Concentration
     … They’re already here in a gentle, potential form. But we do have to be careful. We do have to watch, to be sensitive, and to show a great deal of restraint in respecting the little pockets in the mind, the pockets in the body, where there’s already a sense of wellbeing that we tend to overlook. To sense the potential for wellbeing … 
  14. Hindrances to the Heightened Mind
     … It’s halfway between two forms of devotion: devotion to sensual pleasure and devotion to self-torture. And the middle way is not devotion to a middling pleasure, a middling pain. It’s devotion to the heightened mind—in other words, to the practice of concentration. As the Buddha said, noble right concentration is the heart of the path, and all the other factors … 
  15. Honest & Observant
     … You begin to recognize that there are some forms of desire that should be encouraged, some forms of desire that should be abandoned. There are Dhamma teachings that sound deep and profound, but they’re lying to you. You have to watch out for that. But again, you put them to the test of your honesty. If you adopt a particular teaching, does it … 
  16. Mind Reading
     … Then you realize the only thing keeping you with that sense of form in the body is your image of the boundary of the body. Can you locate the act of the mind that’s creating that image? Can you erase it? Drop it? Replace it with a perception of space permeating the body and going out in all directions? It’s in this … 
  17. Long-Term Welfare
     … This is the kind of pleasure, this is the kind of well-being or happiness, that forms the path, something we work on. Once the mind gets settled in with that sense of well-being, then you can turn to look at the other things you ordinarily chase after for the sake of your happiness. You begin to see that they’re awfully fleeting … 
  18. Respect for Heedfulness
     … You begin to realize that even the most subtle form of pleasure on the everyday level has some clinging mixed into it, and that that particular clinging opens the bridge for all kinds of suffering to come into the mind. Once you build that kind of bridge to things, anybody can come over the bridge. Pleasure can come over the bridge; pain can come … 
  19. The Path of Mistakes
     … That’s one form of fabrication. Try to make the breath comfortable. When there’s a sense of tension anywhere in the body, learn how to breathe around it, or breathe through it, to relieve as much of the tension as you can without totally losing focus. You direct your thoughts to the breath. You evaluate the breath: “What kind of breathing feels good … 
  20. The Uses of Concentration
     … Now, there are slight forms of harm that develop, in terms of laziness on the one side or pride on the other—if you start thinking about how you have concentration and other people don’t—but those defilements can be dealt with, and they’re much more refined. How do you deal with them? By getting more skillful at your concentration: getting more … 
  21. Cutting the Fetters
     … People say that you can think about what the Buddha had to say about the first fetter, identity view, the idea that you identify yourself with any of the five khandhas — form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness — in any of four ways: either identifying directly with the khandha or aggregate itself, or seeing that you’re the owner of the aggregate, or that you’re … 
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