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  2. Avoidance
     … that the suffering that really weighs the mind down comes from its actions and that you are free to choose what you’re going to do—“actions,” here, meaning not just actions of the body, of course, but actions of the mind, the decisions, the choices in the mind. You have the freedom to change those. You’re not totally determined. We’re not … 
  3. The Size of Your Eyes
     … After all, it’s the same mind with the same habits. This is why the Buddha taught restraint of the senses as a foundation for the meditation – in other words, looking after your eyes and ears and nose and tongue and body and the things that go through your mind as you go through the day. When you’re looking at something, why are … 
  4. Feelings Not of the Flesh
     … That’s how mindfulness governs the other factors of the path. In other words, it looks at what’s there in the mind and it remembers, from what you’ve done or heard in the past, what to do with that particular state of mind. If the mind doesn’t want to settle down, what have you learned about dealing with an obstreperous mind … 
  5. The Skill of Happiness
     … Try to be mindful, remembering that you’re here to stay with the breath. Then, if you have meditated before, you can remember the lessons you’ve learned as to what works and what doesn’t work in getting the mind to settle down and to be happy to stay here. Because the mind is like a committee. There are lots of views, lots … 
  6. Four Determinations
     … You have to think your way to get the mind to settle down with the breath: You adjust the breath to fit with the mind; you adjust the mind to fit with the breath. But there comes a point where you don’t have to adjust anymore. The fit is perfect, or at least good enough to settle down in. But often the mind … 
  7. Thinking Your Way to Stillness
     … He said to keep these things in mind while you’re living at home with your children and you’ll find that it will lead the mind to a sense of well-being, a sense of confidence, and from that sense of confidence the mind will eventually get concentrated. So these are ways of thinking that actually lead the mind into concentration. They’re … 
  8. Breath Meditation When It’s Hard to Breathe
     … This is a skill we should keep in mind. As Ajaan Lee says, we have lots of potentials in the body, lots of potentials in the mind that we hardly use. They’re very elemental, which is one of the reasons why we overlook them. We have space as well. You can hold a perception of space in mind when the body gets tight … 
  9. Don’t Just Fatten Your Mind
    Don’t Just Fatten Your Mind October 9, 2018 We practice concentration as our food on the path. We try to settle the mind with one object, like the breath, and bring the mind to the object in a way that it feels at ease and has a sense of fullness, refreshment. So we work with the breath to see what kind of breathing … 
  10. What Is Skillful?
     … You’re also discovering things about the mind. And it’s the same as you’re focusing on the breath: There will be a lot of wandering around in the mind that you wouldn’t have noticed if you hadn’t made up your mind you were going to stay right here. Otherwise, you float seamlessly from one thought into another into another. If … 
  11. Switzerland Inside
    The Buddha’s basic teachings on mindfulness focus on two activities. The first is keeping focused on the body, or feelings, or mind, or mental qualities, in and of themselves; the second is putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. You need both activities to get the mind into concentration. The first is the actual concentration. For instance, at the moment … 
  12. The Power of Perception
     … Your ability to keep that labeling in mind is where mindfulness comes in. At the same time, the label is what mindfulness needs as a sign to remember. That’s how mindfulness works together with the perception. These two qualities of perception and mindfulness help each other along. As you get them more and more stable, you can stay more consistently with the breath … 
  13. Friendship Leading to Seclusion
    We come here to gain some seclusion so that we can focus on what’s going on inside the mind. The texts talk about three kinds of seclusion: bodily seclusion, mental seclusion, and then seclusion from your attachments. Bodily seclusion is when you’re away from other people, as when you go off and sit in your hut, sit in your tent, sit under … 
  14. Strengthening Concentration
    Strengthening Concentration January 5, 2012 In English, when we talk about somebody being single-minded, the implication is that the person is very focused on one single purpose, or one single aim. It’s a quality of the will. And that’s a very relevant way of thinking about concentration. It’s not only that you should have a single object on which you … 
  15. Friends Inside
     … It comes from training the mind. Nice things and good friends are good, but your real happiness comes from within. That’s why we work on the breath: so that we can have a real friend inside. The mind can be its own friend. Because sometimes the mind can be your enemy. It thinks up things that are actually going to be bad for … 
  16. Worlds Inside & Out
    The classic phrase for establishing mindfulness in the body is that you “stay focused on the body in and of itself, ardent, alert, and mindful, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” That last phrase is interesting: “putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.” They don’t have definite or indefinite articles, they don’t have an “a … 
  17. Mindfulness & Perception
     … The reminding is mindfulness. This is a point that’s often misunderstood. Mindfulness is paired with alertness. Alertness is what watches, sees what’s going on, and particularly, what you’re doing right now and the results you’re getting from what you’re doing. Mindfulness is what keeps your task in mind, reminds you keep staying here, staying here, staying here, don’t … 
  18. The Dhamma Protects
     … Okay, which part of the mind was blanking out which other parts of the mind? Which part of the mind wants to run with the things, which other part of the mind does not want to run with the things? There’s a battle that goes on in the mind, and you want to learn the tricks of the unskillful side so that you … 
  19. Challenges
    There are two big dangers when you try to get the mind to settle down. One is pain and the other is pleasure. And it’s through learning how to be intelligent around pain and pleasure that we can stay settled down. Otherwise, the mind goes flying off in other directions. With pain, of course, the issue is how not to feel irritated by … 
  20. Meticulous
     … So of course, the journalist writes an article about how, yes, perhaps the news cycles are invading our minds a little bit too much, but if you don’t keep up on world affairs, you’re a narrow person, she said. So she ended up justifying the fact that the news cycle is still invading our minds, and somehow it makes us better people … 
  21. The Prison Break
     … As the mind settles down like this, you’re peeling away this layer, peeling away that layer, and it’s in the peeling away that you see the movements of the mind, how the mind puts things together. That’s when both the mind and the heart are ready to start letting some of these things go. You’ve been letting go of certain … 
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