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  2. A Trustworthy Mind
     … You want to nurture that sense of the choices you have, and that the best choices are often those that take the form of generosity. You’re happy to nurture that quality in the mind. In terms of the meditation, that translates into the realization that if you’re going to get anything out of the meditation, you first have to give. You have … 
  3. Only One Person
     … They take the words, “Yaa hen kae tua”—which literally means, “Don’t look at yourself” or “only at yourself,” and idiomatically means, “Don’t be selfish”—and they form them into a picture of the Buddha. The head is yaa, the chest and arms are hen, and the legs are *kae tua. *And Ajaan Suwat commented several times that that’s a misguided … 
  4. From Compunction to Release
     … It’s called the pleasure of form. And the Buddha encourages you to indulge in it, settle in, gain nourishment from it. In other words, he’s basically saying to get attached, get good at this, so that it becomes something you can actually hold on to—because it gives you another perspective on your old pleasures. You’re more willing to see their … 
  5. Responsibilities
     … This covers all aspects of the responsibilities you take on—they’re forms of generosity. Give in a way that doesn’t harm you, that doesn’t harm others. Remember, this is all in the context of the practice. As death approaches, that’s going to be the big question: What have you done to prepare for death? There was an ad one time … 
  6. The Dhamma Without Price
     … It’s in this way that the Dhamma is timeless, and we help maintain it in its timeless form. So even if we’re not teaching the Dhamma per se, we’re giving a gift of Dhamma to the world.
  7. The Community of the Wise
     … Remember, they’re your community, because it’s a community that’s formed not simply by being in a particular place or by accidents of birth or economic circumstances. It’s a community of choice, a community based on respect, having the same values in common. There’s a phrase in the Dhammapada, “Trust is the greatest relationship.” Those you trust are your true … 
  8. Right Speech, Inside & Out
     … Perhaps a little blood clot forms in your legs or in a lung, and then who knows where it’s going to go, where it’s going to get lodged. So you don’t know how much time you’ve got. You do know, though, that you have right now. So you crack the whip and get to work. So, work on your internal … 
  9. The Problem of Suffering
     … That wisdom begins, he says, with the question, “What, when I do it, will lead to my long-term welfare and happiness?” That one question forms the framework for everything else. He also said that the measure of a person’s wisdom, whether you’re to be a wise person or a fool, comes down to two situations: One, there’s something that you … 
  10. In Touch with Your Fabrications
     … When the Buddha defines fabrication, he defines it as taking the potentials for a sense of form, feelings, perceptions, thought constructs, or consciousness, and then putting them together into actual experiences of those aggregates for the sake of something. Many of our problems come from the fact that we, in the past, did these things for the sake of what we thought was going … 
  11. See Your Thoughts as Strange
    See Your Thoughts as Strange August 17, 2018 Try and settle into the body—the body as you feel it from within, what the texts call “form”—and try to find a sense of pleasure here. Explore the breath to see how it feels, and adjust it so that it feels just right: not too long, not too short, too deep, too shallow, too … 
  12. How the Tree Leans
     … In other words, look at the process by which the thought is formed. Look at the process by which a decision is made around the thought. That helps to prevent you from falling in. If it’s something you genuinely want to go with—you see it’s going in the right direction—okay, go with it. But even then you have to make … 
  13. Doing, Maintaining, Using
     … As you gain that feel for it, then the various elements of form, feeling, perception, thought constructs, and consciousness begin to separate out. You can watch them for what they are. Then when you let them go, it’s not that you throw them away. You’ve simply learned that you don’t have to identify with them. You can pick them up when … 
  14. Calm & Insight
     … the form of the body as you feel it from within. Feelings, which are feeling tones of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions—the labels you put on things, either as individual words or as images. Thought fabrications, where you put things together and think in full sentences. Then, consciousness which is aware of all these things. These are said to be fabricated … 
  15. Stick to Your Duties
     … Why is there the desire? Why is there the passion? What is the allure? Then you take the desire and passion and you separate them from the form, or the feeling, or the perception, the thought construct, the act of consciousness that you’re holding on to, so that you see just the desire and the passion in and of themselves: That’s what … 
  16. Meditation as Play
     … There’s the form of the body in the breath. Feelings of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain. Perceptions, images of the breath that you hold in mind, that you try out: images of the body that you hold in mind; images of the mind that you hold in mind. Where is your mind right now? All too often, we have the sense that … 
  17. The Buddha’s Encouragement
     … You’ve got the form of the body, the feeling of pleasure that you’re trying to develop, the perceptions that hold you here, the intentions, the thought fabrications that keep you here, and your awareness. All the aggregates are right here. They’re all doing their thing. And of course, we want to learn about the aggregates, so this is a good place … 
  18. Potentials for Rapture
     … All the forms of what they call fabrication are right here when the mind is with the breath. All the potentials for the path are right here as well. It’s simply a matter of familiarizing yourself with the potentials you’ve got here and, over time, making the most of them. That’s how the practice works.
  19. Don’t Leak Out Your Ears & Eyes
     … But whichever form of mindfulness immersed in the body you practice, you’ve got to use it as your foundation post. That’s the Buddha’s image. He says our mind is like six different kinds of animals, and they all go off in their different directions through the six senses. If you were to tie them all to a leash, but there was … 
  20. Selfing & Not-selfing
     … And what have you got? You’ve got these five aggregates—form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness. The Buddha calls them twigs and branches. You bind them together as a raft. And one of the ways of binding them together, of course, is to get the mind into concentration. You’ve got the form of the body. You’ve got the feeling of pleasure that … 
  21. Serenity
     … But this form of well-being is skillful. It’s worth developing. The danger of getting stuck here is extremely minor compared to the dangers of looking for your pleasure elsewhere. Because the nature of the mind is that it wants pleasure. If it can’t find it inside, it’s going to go looking outside. If you can’t produce your own food … 
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