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  2. Freedom & Security
     … But the stress in the four noble truths is something you do have control of. You’re the one who chooses to create it. And you can also choose not to. You can develop the path to put an end to it, you can develop qualities in the mind that allow you let that kind of craving and ignorance go. As the Buddha said … 
  3. Dimensions of Right Effort
     … For instance, with the four noble truths, you have to learn how to sit with suffering, sit with stress, sit with pain until you understand, “Exactly what is it about the pain that’s so burdensome? And where is it coming from?” Here we’re talking mainly about pains in the mind, thoughts that make you uncomfortable, thoughts that make you suffer. Look for … 
  4. Meditation Prep
     … You see cause and effect, skillful and unskillful, i.e., the four noble truths. You develop the path, so you can comprehend suffering and eventually let go of its cause. That’s how you realize the end of suffering: by experimenting, by exploring, by bringing the right attitudes and the right mental qualities to whichever meditation technique you choose. Those qualities are the factors … 
  5. Harmony Inside & Outside
     … This is what seeing things in terms of the four noble truths is all about. Look at what you’re doing that’s causing stress to yourself and to the people around you. Focus on that. Again, instead of getting involved in issues about what sort of person you are, focus on where the genuine problem is and on solving the genuine problem. Is … 
  6. Neither Here nor There
     … That’s when the mind is ready to think of renunciation as a good thing—and when you’re ready for the four noble truths. This seems to be his approach when people are still attached to sensuality. The classic example, of course, is the Buddha’s brother, Ven. Nanda, who, after he was ordained, pined for a woman who, as he was leaving … 
  7. Observe Yourself in Action
     … That’s what the message of the four noble truths is all about. There is an ultimate happiness, and we can get there by learning how to observe ourselves in action, letting go of the pleasures that get in the way of the higher ones. So when you’re exercising restraint over the senses, when you’re observing the precepts, when you’re being … 
  8. The Dhamma Is in the Method
     … We think we understand what the four noble truths and all the different wings to awakening mean. We may have the concepts down, but we don’t really know them until we’ve applied the method. In other words, you try something out. Before you act, you ask yourself, “What do you expect to be the results?” If you expect any harm, you don … 
  9. Insight from Jhana
     … comparing what you’re doing to what you should be doing in terms of the duties of the four noble truths. Then, of course, there’s the consciousness of all these activities. So you’ve got all of the aggregates right here in a very pure form, very immediate form, so that you can observe right here, right now, as the mind is quiet … 
  10. Protecting Your Space
     … Belief in kamma is what grows into an understanding of the four noble truths: There is suffering, and it’s clinging. There is a cause, and the cause is there in the mind, something the mind is doing, and something you can do something about. There are factors in the mind that you can convert into the path; you want to develop those so … 
  11. The Buddha’s Wisdom
     … He identifies the problem for you in the four noble truths: The problem is suffering—the suffering we inflict on ourselves but don’t have to. The suffering he identified as clinging to the five aggregates. And he defined clinging as desire and passion. The cause of suffering is craving. Craving, too, is desire and passion, the difference being that the word for craving … 
  12. The Sublime Attitudes
     … If we didn’t have goodwill for ourselves and the people around us, the four noble truths wouldn’t make any sense as an important teaching. It’s because we would like to see suffering end, not only for ourselves but for the people around us, that we want to follow the path to the end of suffering. We’re concerned to find out … 
  13. Analyzing Suffering
     … Views about karma, views about the nature of suffering and the four noble truths: These are useful views for the purpose of putting an end to suffering. So you hold on to those. As for precepts and practices, after all, the Buddha does give the precepts for us to follow, and there’s the practice of jhana. Here again, you follow these practices as … 
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