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  2. Discernment Fosters Concentration
  3. Discernment Fosters Concentration
  4. Determination
     … If lust or anger comes up, use your discernment. Remember what the Buddha says: You go for things because of their allure and you turn a blind eye to their drawbacks. So that’s precisely what you’ve got to discern: Where’s the allure? Why do you like these thoughts? And if you were to act on them and to follow through with … 
  5. Essense of Discernment, The
  6. Discernment Purifies the Mind
  7. Discernment to Foster Concentration
  8. To Discern Suffering
     … You’re actually discerning the suffering. And you also begin to discern, as the chant says, “Where it totally stops without trace.” That’s the whole point of the practice: to train the mind so that it doesn’t create unnecessary suffering. And as you’ll find, the unnecessary suffering is the only suffering that weighs down the mind. Once the mind doesn’t … 
  9. The Gradual Path of Skill
     … But it requires really subtle discernment to see it, and discernment is something that has to be gradually developed. It plays a role in the entire path. It’s not the case that you develop virtue and then move on to concentration and then finally get the chance to develop discernment. You need discernment as you’re developing your virtue and you need to … 
  10. A Mountain Made of Discernment
  11. Don't Neglect Discernment (outdoors)
  12. Discernment Fosters Concentration
     … Then, of course, you can use the concentrated mind to further your discernment. The image in the Canon is of two hands washing each other: Your right hand washes your left hand; your left hand washes your right hand. The discernment allows you to settle down; once the mind has settled down, the discernment grows more refined. As the discernment’s more refined, the … 
  13. The Need for Stillness
     … In this way, the practice of stillness is not simply something you do while waiting for discernment to come later on. There will be things that you discern in the stillness. Sometimes it seems kind of discouraging. You try to get the mind even a little bit still, and you notice there’s all this movement going on. Well, that’s discernment: seeing the … 
  14. Strengthening Discernment
    Strengthening Discernment January 11, 2012 The standard definition of discernment is the comprehension of fabrications, or sankharas, and you try to comprehend fabrications in terms of the four noble truths: seeing, on the one hand, how some fabrications cause suffering and actually constitute suffering—suffering itself is a fabrication—and on the other, how you can turn some of these fabrications into the path … 
  15. Between Right & Wrong
     … The concentration and discernment help each other along. It’s not the case that you wait until your concentration is perfect before developing discernment. To begin with, discernment doesn’t develop that way. It’s in the course of doing the concentration that you notice things you hadn’t seen before. Something that was perfectly okay before becomes not okay as you get more … 
  16. The Dualistic Path
     … This is why concentration is so important as a basis for discernment. You need some discernment to get the mind to settle down, which strengthens your discernment. Then the greater stillness allows the discernment to be more precise. The same principle applies to the whole practice. Tune in to a particular level of sensation, a particular level of how the breath feels, how the … 
  17. Discernment on the Path
     … When the time comes to develop discernment, you’re watching right here because discernment is basically guidance in what to do right here. The four noble truths are guidance for action. The fourth truth is a path: something you follow, something you develop. Each of the other truths also has a duty associated with it. You try to comprehend wherever there’s stress. You … 
  18. Analysis of Dhammas
     … This is how you develop your own discernment. It’s a development of your own sensitivity. I was reading recently someone saying that the word pañña in Pali, which we translate as discernment, really doesn’t mean just discernment. It means profound understanding of the three characteristics. But the word pañña is related to a verb, pajanati, and that can relate to anything, profound … 
  19. Concentration
     … And it’s in this way that concentration leads to discernment. It both builds on discernment and creates the conditions for more discernment. After all, if you didn’t have some understanding of the mind, you wouldn’t be able to get it to settle down. Once it settles down, you can see things even more clearly. So try to develop this combination of … 
  20. Rightly Directed
     … That will be your connection to all these other good qualities, beginning with virtue and discernment. Virtue is what keeps you honest. Discernment is what reminds you of the importance of your actions. So what you’ve got are basically three qualities: virtue, mindfulness, discernment. That combination of mindfulness and discernment based on virtue is something that the forest ajaans always stress. The Thai … 
  21. If at First You Don’t Succeed
     … This, too, is a function of discernment. So all those qualities of a good determination—discernment, truth, relinquishment, calm—are really aspects of the first quality, the discernment. It’s just that your discernment gets exercised, more and more precise, and more and more subtle as you apply it. So when you, “Try, try again,” make sure that you’re bringing discernment to your … 
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