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  2. Meaning & Becoming
     … He taught it for human beings and divine beings, anybody who’s interested, who sees that the normal way of life, the normal way of taking on one becoming after another, is ultimately meaningless, with one exception: using the process of becoming to create the path so that you can go beyond becoming. As it turns out, in our search for little homes to … 
  3. Abandoning Craving
     … three kinds of craving—craving for sensuality, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming. So it’s good to think about how we go about abandoning the cause of suffering. The Buddha gives a little bit of a hint. He says you have to find its location. Where does craving grow? That’s where you put it out. That’s where you abandon it … 
  4. Constructing & Deconstructing
     … Once you’ve got the mind in either a state of concentration or any emotion, it’s in a state of becoming. And as the Buddha said, once you’re in a state of becoming, if you try to destroy it, that’s craving for non-becoming. If you try to maintain it, it’s craving for becoming. What do you do? You try … 
  5. Approaching Painful Memories as a Meditator
     … And one of them is a question: “Days and nights fly past, fly past, what am I becoming right now?” What you’re becoming is based on your actions. What are you doing right now? And what kind of person are you becoming as a result? One of the advantages of meditating is that you become a meditator—a person who has skills that … 
  6. Knowledge over Fear
     … Craving for becoming: That means is wanting to take on a particular identity in a particular world of experience. And again, some becomings are okay. The becoming that you would like to become a meditator, you would like to be skillful in the meditation, you’d like to live in an environment where you can meditate: These are skillful becomings. The unskillful ones are … 
  7. Delight in the Path
     … We fall for these processes that lead to becoming, where we take on an identity in a world of experience around a desire, and we live in those becomings. Our sense of who we are is in those becomings, our sense of where we are, what’s important, centers in those becomings. But now, as we meditate, we’re learning to step back from … 
  8. The Power of Action
    There’s a question that the Buddha recommends that the monks ask themselves every day, and it’s a good question for anyone who practices to ask him or herself: “What am I becoming as days and night fly past, fly past?” As Ajaan Fuang once said, suppose the Buddha were standing in front of you right now, asking you that question. How would … 
  9. Songkran Blessing
     … Sukha, you live a life of happiness, you have no pains, you have no troubles, and you become careless, you become complacent. And as for strength, if you get a lot of strength and you use it to force other people to do what you want, without regard for right or wrong, that becomes your bad karma. In short, these blessings can turn into … 
  10. Issues
    When we live in the world, we’re sharing a becoming with other beings. You know how beings are defined—they’re defined by their attachments. And they have to feed. This applies to other beings; this applies to us—as long as we take on the identity of a being. Which means that there are going to be conflicts. And there are a … 
  11. The Heightened Mind
     … It can get out of those little tiny becomings. Give it this larger becoming, where it can look at the little becomings and see them for what they are. You realize that you don’t have to be their servant. You’re larger than they are. Think of the Buddha’s images for goodwill: As broad as the earth. As deep as the earth … 
  12. Meaning & Purpose
     … As you play with these perception, you’re creating a state of becoming: You, the breather, inhabiting the whole body. You, the awareness, inhabiting the whole body. Now, we’re told that we’re trying to overcome our craving for becoming, but the Buddha always thought strategically. Someone showed me a video the other day, where some Abhidhamma expert was talking about how people … 
  13. Not Resolved on Self
     … If you’re already negatively attached to yourself, it’s going to encourage you in your negativity—neither of which is healthy, neither of which is going to put an end to the cravings that lead to becoming. We need to be focused on something else, resolved on something else. Take the issue of self and put it aside. Find something else to become … 
  14. A Refuge in Mindfulness
    When the Buddha talks about finding an admirable friend, we have to remember that the purpose is that we ultimately want to become good friends for ourselves. The outside friend sets an example, and it’s a valuable example. There are a lot of things you could learn from being around a really good person—in the flesh, as opposed to reading about such … 
  15. Renunciation
     … The Buddha talks about three different levels of becoming. There’s sensual becoming, form becoming, and formless becoming, “becoming” here meaning the identity you take on when you’re planning your happiness around a particular kind of pleasure, and the world that you inhabit in order to gain that pleasure. You know the old story about the alcoholic going into a house and knowing … 
  16. Dichotomies
     … He talks about different kinds of craving, and the real dilemma is the distinction between craving for becoming and craving for non-becoming. As he said, all cravings that lead to becoming will cause suffering. Becoming is taking on an identity in a world of experience. It can happen on the level of the mind: in other words, having a desire, then thinking about … 
  17. In & of Themselves
     … These becomings are driven by our desires. We don’t see them clearly because we’re in them. So it’s to get us out of them that the Buddha says to at the raw materials in and of themselves. You’re actually going to create another state of becoming out of them, a state of concentration. But you’ll be doing that with … 
  18. The World of the Noble Truths
     … If you know anything about the Buddha’s teachings on becoming, you realize he’s putting you into a certain state of becoming. Becoming is an identity that you take in a world of experience, centered on a particular desire. The desire here, of course, is to put an end to suffering. And these becomings the Buddha talks about can happen in the mind … 
  19. Turtle Meditation
     … But it’s tender in the sense that it becomes very sensitive. And particularly, you become sensitive to your own actions so that your virtue is not simply a matter of the precepts. It becomes a deeper quality of the mind so that even though the things you do may not be against the precepts, but if they’re harmful, you know. And that … 
  20. Warm Your Heart
     … You notice, as you observe the precepts, that you become a different person. The world around you becomes a different world. When you’re generous, the mind becomes a lot more spacious. You find yourself with better people, with a better relationship to other people. You also get lessons in what the Buddha calls “becoming”: how you shape your identity; how you shape your … 
  21. An Island of Certainty
     … He realized that any craving that led to becoming was going to lead to suffering. But craving for non-becoming—in other words, to destroy a state of becoming that’s already there, or to see it destroyed—would lead to becoming, too. What is becoming? It’s the act of taking on an identity in a world of experience. So there was this … 
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