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- Breath Meditation: The Second Tetrad… It’ll be a lot less likely to regard any incident as just too much to take, where it suddenly snaps and its goodness disappears—its calm, its equanimity, its patience all disappear. If those things can disappear, you’re really up the creek. You don’t know what your mind is going to do. But if you learn how to feed it well …
- A Path Under the Trees… In other words, you have goodwill or equanimity for others; you don’t wish for anybody to suffer. And then there’s resolve on non-harm, that you’re not going to harm anybody. The way those resolves get carried out is that the mind turns inward to find a sense of well-being inside. That’s what right concentration for. When the Buddha …
- Understanding Through Developing… They’re not, “I’ll just sit here watching things coming and going,” or, “I’ll put aside thoughts of the past, thoughts of the future, and watch equanimously as I breathe in and breathe out.” The Buddha rejected that way of doing breath meditation. He said it’s one way of doing it, but it doesn’t get the best results. The steps …
- The Lessons of Good Kamma… a mind of unlimited goodwill, unlimited compassion, unlimited empathetic joy, unlimited equanimity. A mind trained not to be overcome by pleasure or by pain. A mind developed in virtue and discernment. These qualities expand your mind, so that what comes in from the past doesn’t have to make you suffer. What the Buddha does emphasize when he introduces the topic of kamma is …
- To Escape the Prison of Time… You develop goodwill for all, compassion for all, empathetic joy, equanimity—all around. When you do, your actions are bound to be more skillful, less harmful. If it turns out there is no rebirth, or actions don’t have consequences, then at the very least you can be honorable in your intentions. For instance, say you believe in the principle of the power of …
- Reflect on What You’re Doing… Feelings would be a feeling of ease, well-being, or equanimity. The perception would be the mental image you have of how the breath comes in and out of the body. Fabrication would be your intention to stay here. It starts out with directed thought and evaluation as you talk to yourself to get the mind to settle down, but even as you drop …
- You Can’t Relax Your Way to Awakening… We develop rapture, calm, concentration, and equanimity so that the mind will have an alternative place of well-being to stay to give itself a good foundation, so that it can deal with pain and not feel threatened by it. But it doesn’t mean the pain’s going to go away. If you could just go into jhana and wipe out all pain …
- Inner Wealth… That’s equanimity. That’s something else. Mindfulness is remembering that the mind needs to be trained and remembering what you’ve learned about how to do it, so that when something comes up in the mind, you learn how to recognize that quality of mind as skillful or unskillful, helpful or unhelpful in training the mind, and then you remember what to do …
- The Path of Mistakes… limitless goodwill, limitless compassion, limitless empathetic joy, limitless equanimity. Learn how to cultivate these emotions, because they help keep you on the right track, strengthen your resolve not to be harmful, and also teach you where your limitations are: what you can do, what you can’t do in terms of correcting the situation within yourself and the world around you. Again, these attitudes …
- Choosing Freedom… You could think thoughts of goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, equanimity. Extend those to everybody you can think of—whatever you find calms the mind, gives a sense of well-being inside. Once there’s that sense of well-being, then turn and look. See how your breath is at that point. Has the breath changed? If it has, see if you can then focus …
- Permission to Play… This way you get a sense of when you should try to change things, and when you shouldn’t; which problems in the body or in the mind respond to active intervention, and which ones respond better when you simply watch them with equanimity. As you put the mind in a better mood through giving it a good comfortable place to stay, or giving …
- Directly & Indirectly to the Breath… In addition to generosity and virtue, these qualities include a sense of conviction in the Buddha’s awakening, learning about the Dhamma, developing your discernment, developing the attitudes of unlimited goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. These are the things that raise your level while you’re here as a human being. And again where do they come from? From the qualities you develop …
- Self-Correct… And you have qualities of the mind developing, particularly trying to develop equanimity with regard to the world. So all the frames of reference for your mindfulness are right here at the breath. Which means it’s a good place to focus. To keep focused here, the practice of mindfulness requires three qualities, beginning with mindfulness itself, which—unlike what you may have heard …
- Perfecting the Mind in an Imperfect World… And you have to learn how to develop some equanimity around areas of the world where you look at them and say, “That’s really sad that that’s the way things are.” But you have to look at how much effort you would have to put in to change those things and ask yourself, “What would actually happen if I did make that …
- Diagnosing the Mind… Sometimes it requires learning to take a different topic for your meditation for a while, like goodwill, equanimity, any of the brahmaviharas. Or you can use contemplation of death, or what they call the four guardian meditations. There’s recollection of the Buddha, which is for encouragement, to inspire you to practice; development of goodwill, when you’re dealing with anger; contemplation of the …
- Blessings… The skillful ones were the ones imbued with renunciation—in other words, not getting fascinated with thinking about sensual pleasures; non-ill will, actually thinking thoughts of goodwill and equanimity; and harmlessness, with thoughts of compassion. So the Buddha judged his thoughts on where they came from and then also where they went. If they were coming from the unskillful motivations, he would hold …
- Why We Train the Mind… As the Buddha noted, there are some problems in the mind that go away when you simply watch them with equanimity. Other times, you have to fabricate, as he says, an effort, or fabricate an intention to do away with them, or to develop whatever is needed. So that’s the second part of right effort: figuring out exactly what kind of effort is …
- Working at Home… the Dhamma of generosity, the Dhamma of virtue, the Dhamma of patience, equanimity, goodwill—all these other virtues that are an essential part of training the mind. The idea of creating meditation retreats came basically in the late 19th or early 20th century, the same time when the assembly line was invented, breaking jobs down into little tiny parts that you do repetitively. This …
- Breath, Tranquility, & Insight… He said, “What kind of breath meditation do you do?” The monk said, “I try to let go of any concern with the past, let go of any hankering towards the future, and try to be equanimous to whatever comes up in the present moment, as I breathe in, breathe out.” Which sounds like the way breath meditation is ordinarily taught these days. But …
- Fear of Concentration… Then you finally get the mind to the purity of mindfulness and equanimity. In other words, things settle back to a very normal state, simply that you’re fully inhabiting the body and it’s very, very still. You want that to become your normalcy, because it was at that spot that the Buddha gained all of his knowledges that lead to his awakening …
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