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  2. Why We Train the Mind
     … It had to be just right. “In the same way, the Buddha said, you take the five faculties in the mind and you tune your level of energy first.” It’s like tuning five strings on a guitar. First you tune one string and then, once that string is tuned, you tune the other ones to it. In this case, you tune the level … 
  3. A Warrior’s Strengths
     … In this case, the Buddha is referring to all the five faculties, all the five strengths that you need in your meditation—conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration and discernment. Your persistence, your energy, the amount of effort you can put into the practice, is the first string you tune. In other words, you look at what your strength is, what can you handle, which is … 
  4. The Path to the Top
     … Sometimes he’d explain it in terms of the noble eightfold path, sometimes in terms of the seven factors for awakening, the five faculties, the five strengths, or the four bases for success, but they all came down to the same thing. Each of them, as you analyze them, falls under the headings of the noble eightfold path. There are slightly different variations in … 
  5. Persistence
     … when it sounded good.” Then the Buddha said, “It’s the same way with your mind.” Back in those days, the lute must have had five strings, because he takes the five faculties as an example. He says, “You tune your persistence to your level of energy”—in other words, what you’re capable of right now—“and then you tune all the remaining … 
  6. Toward Release
     … In the five faculties, concentration leads to discernment. They’re in dialogue. And the dialogue is about appropriate attention: “Where is the suffering right now? What am I doing to cause it? What qualities of mind can I develop to help abandon the cause so that I can calm the mind and realize what the noble people of the past have realized: that the … 
  7. Equanimity
     … 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 the suffering you … 
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