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  2. Mindfulness over Time
     … Which messages are worth opening up and listening to? Which messages do you send on? In the four noble truths, the Buddha talks about the duties we have to perform. Those are part of the message that he would recommend. He also recommends frames of reference: the body in and of itself, feelings in and of themselves, mind in and of itself, dhammas in … 
  3. For Your Future’s Sake
     … What are your duties right now? In terms of the four noble truths, they are: to comprehend suffering or stress, to abandon the cause, to realize cessation through developing the path. Dogen, the Zen master, makes the point that the duties of the last two truths actually come together, that by focusing on developing, in the midst of the developing you’re going to … 
  4. High Level Metta
     … Think about the four noble truths, where the Buddha says we’re all suffering because of our own craving. Well, you can’t go in and change someone else’s craving. The craving you can work on is your own. So you work on that to be a good example—and to be more secure in yourself, because there are times when metta requires … 
  5. The Treasure Hunt
     … knowledge of previous lives, knowledge of beings passing away and being reborn in line with their karma, and then knowledge of the four noble truths. Those first two knowledges were not all that certain; there was still an element of possible doubt. Visions of previous lifetimes don’t necessarily mean you actually had previous lifetimes. You can see people passing away and being reborn … 
  6. Craving & Desire on the Path
     … That second meaning is really important because the four noble truths have duties appropriate to each: Suffering is to be comprehended, its cause is to be abandoned, its cessation is to be realized, and the path to its cessation has to be developed. Each of those duties is going to involve skill. Nobody else can make us skillful. They can point out the way … 
  7. Accepting the Buddha’s Standards
     … After all, the four noble truths don’t point just to suffering and the cause of suffering. They also point to the path and to the cessation of suffering. Those things can be a part of life, too. Now, a lot of people wouldn’t want to be bothered, but again, that’s their choice, and we should be allowed ours. Ajaan Fuang talks … 
  8. Wisdom & Compassion
     … If this weren’t the case, the Buddha wouldn’t have focused on the four noble truths as his main teaching. The truths are an understanding of suffering, how to let go of its cause, the path you have to develop in order to let go of that cause, and then the results that come: the end of suffering. If the Buddha weren’t … 
  9. Understanding Aggregates
     … This is where the teaching on the four noble truths and the three characteristics really goes against the grain. Precisely the places where you find joy, precisely the places where you feel that you’ve got to hold on: *Those *are the places, the Buddha says, you’ve got to watch out for. You’ve got to learn how to peel away the appeal … 
  10. A Light in the Darkness
     … the questions that surround the four noble truths. Where is there stress? Where is there craving? When is mindfulness present? When is it absent? Can you see these things? When mindfulness is present, how can you keep it going? When it’s absent, how can you give rise to it? These are the questions he has us ask about the present moment. Aside from … 
  11. Safety All Around
     … basically, seeing things in term of the four noble truths. What’s noble about the truths? They force you to question your clinging and your craving. Otherwise, you’re going to suffer from these things. The Buddha puts a little question mark into your likes and dislikes: The things that you hold on to, the things that you’re feeding on: Do you realize … 
  12. Discerning Actions
     … the teaching on skillful and unskillful actions, the teaching on the four noble truths. The reason there are four noble truths is because there are four duties with regard to stress. You want to comprehend the stress, to abandon its cause, to realize its cessation, and to develop the path to the cessation. Four different things you’ve got to do: That’s why … 
  13. A Noble Choice
     … Once the mind had attained that state, then the Buddha would explain his teachings on the four noble truths: how there’s suffering and stress in life, and it’s caused by your craving: craving for sensuality, craving for what he calls “becoming”—where you think of something you want, then you identify that it’s in a particular world, and then you go … 
  14. Life in the Buddha’s Hospital
     … He starts off with the four noble truths, which are very much like an analysis of how to care for a disease. In his case, he’s offering a cure for the basic disease of the mind: the suffering that comes from craving and ignorance. That’s what we’ve got to cure. So he analyzes the symptoms of the disease, diagnoses it, explains … 
  15. The Primacy of the Mind (2)
     … After all, with the four noble truths, when the Buddha searches out the causes of suffering, they don’t come from outside—they come from within. It’s because of craving and ignorance that the mind creates suffering for itself. When you look at dependent co-arising, you find the same thing: Almost half of the factors are prior to sensory contact, our knowledge … 
  16. Inner Authorities
     … Why are you duty-bound to accept their indoctrination? If you’re going to adopt views that you’ll take as working hypotheses, try the four noble truths and the duties they entail. Instead of being duty-bound to keep in touch with the news, you’re duty-bound to comprehend your suffering, to see that suffering is in the clinging; to abandon the … 
  17. When You Don’t Like Your Selves
     … Do I want the consequences of this particular kind of action?” Then he has you talk to yourself in terms of the four noble truths. The way you self is a kind of clinging. When is it useful and skillful, and when is it not? Because you do need a sense of self to follow the path—a sense of yourself as competent, that … 
  18. Strategic Thinking
    If you look carefully at the four noble truths, you begin to realize that the Buddha was a very strategic thinker. He takes elements out of the first two noble truths—suffering and the cause of suffering—and puts them to use in the path to the end of suffering. Remember that suffering, as he said, when you boil it down to its essence … 
  19. Training Your Inner Teacher
     … When the Buddha sets out the four noble truths, he says that the thoughts that give rise to suffering come from craving for sensuality, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming. Then there are the thoughts that lead away from suffering, starting with thoughts of right view, right resolve—your intention to follow the duties of the path—then right speech, right action, right … 
  20. Afraid of Inner Pleasure
     … This is *the *basic message of the four noble truths, that the suffering we experience in the world, the suffering that really weighs down the mind, comes from inside. People can be cruel outside; people can do horrible things outside. And they do. But it’s how you respond, how you process that: That’s what makes you suffer. This is why we hear … 
  21. Universal Truths
     … What this means is that the four noble truths are not some abstract teaching whose truth is peculiar to India 2,600 years ago. They’re things happening right here, right now, and they’re happening very directly in your awareness. To chip away at that ignorance, you start by focusing on something more obviously happening right here, right now: the breath. In the … 
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