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- Eight Principles… The three principles that have to do with your practice, how you deal with yourself, are contentment, aroused persistence, and shedding. “Shedding” here seems to apply primarily to the shedding of pride, because pride gets in the way of our learning anything from anybody. There are stories in the Theragatha and Therigatha of monks and nuns who had to overcome their pride before they …
- Bases of Success… If you have that desire, then the remaining bases of success come a lot easier, in particular the persistence and the intentness. You stick with it. You give it your energy. That’s the persistence part. You try to develop a good momentum that carries on through this meditation and on through to the next. Ajaan Fuang talks about how our lives tend to …
- The Seven Factors for Awakening… They start with mindfulness as a factor for awakening, then there’s analysis of qualities, persistence or energy, rapture, tranquility or serenity, concentration, and equanimity. Of these factors, the Buddha said that mindfulness is the one that’s always appropriate. Mindfulness here means both mindfulness and alertness. Mindfulness is the ability to keep something in mind. Like right now: You’re trying to keep …
- Four Roles to Play… concentration based on desire, in other words, the consumer; concentration based on persistence, the agent; concentration based on intent, the observer; and concentration based on analysis, the judge. When he talks about the right effort that leads to concentration, though, he includes all four. Right effort requires you to generate desire, exert persistence, uphold your intent to develop what’s skillful and abandon what …
- The Power of Your Actions… You’re more willing to put more effort into developing skillful qualities, which is the second of the strengths the Buddha taught—persistence in developing skillful qualities and abandoning unskillful ones, realizing that if what he taught about the power of your actions is true, you have to be really consistent in looking at the long-term. It’s interesting that discernment, of the …
- Use Your Imagination… I’ll make that a law inside my mind.” If the temptation seems persistent, you can ask yourself, “Well, why can’t I be more persistent that it?” What is the temptation, but one part of your mind? So why can’t another part of your mind, the skillful part of your mind, be just as persistent, just as insistent, just as tenacious? Learn …
- The Strength of Heedfulness… This is how the strength of persistence—when you’re heedful—develops the strength of mindfulness. You have to be alert to what you’re doing. You have to try to do it well. That’s what the persistence is, but it’s also the ardency in right mindfulness: You see what you’re doing, you see the results, and you try to keep …
- Mission Possible… Your persistence has to be not too excessive, not too weak. Your intent, the amount of focus you put on this, has to be not too excessive, not too weak. And your powers of analysis have to be not too excessive, not too weak. So you have to use those different qualities to keep one another in line. In other words, you use your …
- A Strong Sense of Self… They enrich your mindfulness, and through your mindfulness they promote your persistence. Based on mindfulness and persistence, you get the mind into concentration, and the concentration becomes a new source of strength. Based on that, you develop discernment. When you see the ways you’re acting that lead to suffering and you realize, “I don’t have to do that,” that takes a huge …
- Customs of the Noble Ones… Tell yourself, “I’m going to stay right here with this breath, and this breath, and this breath.” That leads to the second quality, which is persistence: really sticking with this, putting energy into this. In the beginning, you’ll notice that you’re with the breath for a while, and then it’ll fade away. Then you notice you’ve wandered off, and …
- Fire Prevention… The standard formula says that you give rise to desire, exert your persistence, uphold your intent to prevent unskillful qualities that haven’t yet arisen from arising; to abandon those that have arisen; to give rise to skillful qualities that are not there yet, and when they are there, to develop them to the full extent of their culmination. Notice the first three qualities …
- Creating a World of Concentration… So you’ve got desire, persistence, intent—where you’re really interested in something, pay careful attention to it—and then finally, the more active qualities of analysis and ingenuity. These parallel the four ways in which you build worlds in your imagination. First, there’s the ability to create a world through desire. Then you maintain it—that’s the persistence. The intentness …
- The Equanimity that Doesn’t Give Up… First, through conviction, that if there’s going to be a way out it’s going to depend on your actions; and then through persistence, just keeping at it regardless. Once you’re confident that you’re on the right path—and what path could be better than the path that says to look at your actions and see where they’re skillful, look …
- Believing & Knowing… Conviction, persistence, mindfulness, and concentration are like the beams and the rafters going up. Discernment is the ridgepole—the discernment that leads to the right ending of stress. As the others are going up, they’re going to be a little wobbly. They’re not one hundred percent sure. It’s only when we start having direct insight that discernment really starts yielding results …
- The Breathing Game… And the third is persistence: You just stick with it. One of the secrets of persistence is not that you just grit your teeth and push, push, push on through, but that you learn how to make a game of it. See how long you can stay with the breath, and then next time, after you’ve fallen off, see if you can stay …
- Prevention… The formula goes, “You generate desire, activate persistence, uphold your intent: one, to prevent unskillful qualities of mind that haven’t arisen yet from arising; two, to let go of those that have; rhree, to give rise to skillful qualities that haven’t yet arisen; and four, to develop and take to perfection the skillful qualities that have arisen. Of the four, the first …
- Factors for Awakening… As you keep at this, it turns into the third factor, which is persistence. Just keep at it, again and again and again. This is effort, but it’s effort in a sense of ease. The ease that the Buddha talks about has two facets. One is a sense of fullness. When you breathe in right now, what would feel full in the different …
- Noble Conversation… Then there’s talking about persistence, encouraging one another to sit longer hours, to walk longer times when you’re doing your walking meditation. That’s the kind of thing about which you should encourage one another. And your virtue. Encourage one another in our precepts. These are things we can talk about. When you find that you’ve slipped with the precepts and …
- Beyond Inter-eating… mindfulness, the ability to analyze things, persistence, rapture, serenity, concentration, and equanimity. These require the food of appropriate attention, which means looking at things in line with such questions as, “What’s skillful? What’s unskillful? What, when I do it will lead to long-term harm? What, when I do it will lead to long-term happiness?” You look at your actions, you …
- Persistence… mindfulness; analysis of qualities, which is the same thing as right view; and persistence, which is the same thing as right effort. These qualities have to go together because without right view and right mindfulness, your effort to goes straying off in other directions. Without right effort, right view and right mindfulness can’t accomplish anything much. So as you put effort into the …
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