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  2. Positive Right Speech
     … Again, you go out of your way to pay attention to the other person; how they’re receiving your words. This connects with the next type of right speech, where you avoid divisive tale-bearing. The positive side is that you speak in ways that are harmonious, that help create harmony within the group. We’re so casual in the way that we destroy … 
  3. Fire Escapes
    Fire Escapes April 7, 2016 A rainy night like this forces your attention inside. If you send your mind out, you run into the rain and the cold, so you bring it back in. Try to inhabit your body fully. Think of your awareness as having a shape like the body and that it fills every part of your physical body. You’re aware … 
  4. Looking at Your Life
     … And of course, as you’re paying attention to the breath, the mind is right here as well. You can think of the breath as the point where the mind and the body meet. As you open up your awareness to the breath energy in the body, you’re opening up your mind as well. The mind is surprisingly compartmented. It tends to focus … 
  5. Breath Meditation
     … Remember that in learning to deal with the breath, you develop skills, you develop attitudes, ways of relating, that are useful in all areas of your life—if you take the time to pay the breath the attention it deserves.
  6. The Tools of the Path
     … These are the ones that are there in the mind because you haven’t been paying close attention. When you do pay close attention, you realize: This is really stupid. You see no reason to follow those causes of suffering anymore, and they just go away. There are others, though, that are more deeply entrenched. In that case, you have to exert a fabrication … 
  7. WYSIWYG
     … And if you pay attention, you begin to realize that it reflects your mind state with a lot of sensitivity. At the same time, as you can learn how to control the breath, you see it has an effect on the mind state. The two are very closely associated, very closely connected. This is where you can get a handle on your mind, on … 
  8. Just-Right Concentration
     … You just keep bringing your attention back, bringing it back. Then, when it settles down, you can’t just sit there enjoying the quiet, because that turns into delusion concentration pretty fast. When things have settled down, you tell yourself, “I’ve got work to do.” This is where you can work with the breath energies in the different parts of the body. Do … 
  9. Generosity First
     … But if you come to the meditation with experience in being generous, the question becomes “What do I give to the meditation?” You give it your full attention. You give it the effort, you’re happy to put in the effort, because you’ve learned from experience that good effort put into the practice of the Dhamma brings good results. And so that internal … 
  10. Put Some Heart into Your Practice
     … Your tendency to dismiss other people, to say that they’re not worth your attention, they don’t deserve to be happy: That’s wrong view. It makes it impossible to get on the path. So we develop generosity, we develop virtue, we develop thoughts of universal goodwill as part of the total training of the heart and the mind together. We here in … 
  11. Virtuous Beginnings
     … They take over all of our attention, all of our time. It gets devoted to getting a good place to stay, good clothing to wear, good food to eat, the right medicine and medical care we’re going to need. So on the one hand, we need to learn to put some restraint on our consumption so that the mind has more time for … 
  12. Food for Consciousness
     … It’s an area that we ourselves don’t pay that much attention to, because our attention is too often diverted outside. And for that reason, we don’t have much of a vocabulary to describe what’s going on inside, as it’s felt from within. But it’s our most immediate experience. After all, it’s on this level of experience that … 
  13. True Freedom of Speech
     … Sometimes there are occasions when you have to speak in ways that might sound hurtful, just to catch people’s attention. Again, you have to be very clear about your intentions, and clear about your reasons for engaging in that kind of speech. So again, there’s no precept. Now, the fact that there’s no precept against these two types of speech doesn … 
  14. Three Stages in the Practice
     … So the simple fact that you’re not thinking about anything sensual, not paying attention to anything sensual: That allows for a level of pleasure and energy that you should learn how to appreciate. Then try to maintain it. Allow it to deepen. Allow it to seep into the different parts of your body. This is where rapture begins to appear as the sense … 
  15. Open Are the Doors to the Deathless
     … One was getting the mind single—in other words, getting it concentrated—and two, applying appropriate attention, which means listening to the Dhamma and asking yourself, “How does this apply to the problem of the suffering in my own heart? How does this apply to what I’m doing right now that’s creating the suffering, and how I can stop?” That’s precisely … 
  16. The Dhamma Wheel in the Heart
     … Ultimately, of course, the child will begin to grow and gradually get a more responsible for itself, and you won’t have to be quite so attentive. But still, you do have to pay attention and you still have to be there to help nurture and foster the child. So when the mind is with the breath, protect that. I had a problem when … 
  17. The Karma that Ends Karma
     … The posing of the question is what’s called appropriate attention. That’s what opens things up, makes it possible to see things that you didn’t intend to see, or to see them where you didn’t intend to see them. This is how things finally open to the Deathless. The Deathless is unintended. It’s something that, when you hit it, you … 
  18. Free Not to Suffer
     … In other words, those are the causes of suffering that can survive only because you’re not paying attention. As soon as you pay attention to them, they shrivel up and die. It’s because of them that some people think that just being non-reactive is enough to get rid of all unskillful things in the mind. You look at them, accept that … 
  19. Dignity in the Face of Hardship
     … So focus your energy, focus your attention on the areas where you do have power, where you do have control both in your relationships with other people—where you treat them with generosity and virtue—and in your relationship to your own mind. Remember that a sense of dignity will sustain you. You may not be able to eat it, it may not be … 
  20. An Environment for Practice
    There’s a discourse where the Buddha talks about five qualities that a new monk should develop or should pay special attention to. The five are useful not only for new monks, but also for old monks and for lay people, because they’re about creating the environment for your meditation practice. All too often, especially in lay life, we think that we can … 
  21. Broad, Tall, & Deep
     … You want to stay focused on the breath because your attention to the breath is what produces the ease. Let the ease do its work in the body but don’t let yourself get overwhelmed by it or sucked into it. Be determined that you’re not going to lose your focus, you’re not going to lose your grasp on the breath. That … 
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