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  2. The Desire for Things to Be Different
     … Craving for sensuality, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming: These things come from inside, from a long chain of causes inside, which we’re going to explore as we meditate. That’s where the real suffering is. After all, arahants can live in the world and they can live in some pretty rough circumstances without suffering. Ajaan Mun told Ajaan Fuang once of … 
  3. Refuge in the Dhamma
     … As long as you’re in the state of becoming created by those thoughts and you see everything in the world in line with that state of becoming, they can turn on you whenever they want. So learn how to step out, remembering that no matter how real a state of becoming may seem, it’s not the true story. It’s a state … 
  4. An Island in the Flood
     … That’s a becoming in the mind, and the mind takes on all kinds of becoming. We’re really good at this—so good that when we die, we keep it up. We find another becoming. So for the time being, you want to take on the becoming of being on the island. You’re going to be the meditator, the inner teacher who … 
  5. Dependent Co-arising in Fifteen Minutes
     … The Buddha wants you to focus in these ways, because he wants to get you out of your ordinary states of becoming and see things simply as events. Then it’s a lot easier to let go of them. If you try to destroy a state of becoming that’s already developed, your desire to destroy it becomes a craving for non-becoming, and … 
  6. To Strengthen the Path
     … In this way, you create a sense of well-being, a becoming here that’s strong, that enables you to stay on the path. So even though eventually we have to go beyond becoming, we have to learn how to use becoming to do that. It’s by learning to study this process of becoming as we work in concentration that we actually get … 
  7. Samvega First
     … That was one of the Buddha’s main discoveries, that any craving that leads to becoming is going to entail suffering. Becoming is a process that happens in the mind all the time. You have a world appearing in your imagination. Sometimes the desire comes first and sometimes the world appears and you focus on something in that world that you want to desire … 
  8. Four Determinations
     … What am I becoming right now?” What you’re becoming is dependent on what you’re doing. That’s the type of person you become. We all start out with bright hopes. Are your hopes still bright? If there’s any reason that they’re not, you have to ask yourself why. What are you lacking in terms of discernment, truth, relinquishment, and calm … 
  9. Take Good Aim
     … Sometimes we become a person we don’t even recognize. A certain craving takes over and, as the Buddha says, craving leads to becoming. And what is becoming? It’s the act of creating an identity in a certain world of experience or taking on an identity based on your desires. The identity here is either the “you” who’s going to enjoy the … 
  10. Being a Buddhist
     … I remember when I was becoming a Buddhist one of the main breakthroughs or milestones, I guess you would say, was when I realized that I really had to depend on my own karma. Prior to that I’d been raised a Christian, and even as I was beginning to have lots of doubts about those teachings, there was still a strong sense that … 
  11. A Radiant Practice
     … The tradition is that he taught his father to become an arahant. He taught his stepmother to become an arahant. He taught his mother up in heaven to become a stream enterer. He taught his wife to become a stream enterer. He taught his son to become an arahant. He had found a treasure and he wanted to share it. In the forest tradition … 
  12. Analysis of Qualities
     … This is helpful because becoming is the big problem in the mind, and the best way to understand it is to create some good becomings, transparent becomings. So when you think about the world that you’re in, the world here is going to be the breath in the body. Where do you feel the breath in the body? We know that the air … 
  13. The Dhamma Without Price
     … Kondañña did was ask to become a member of the Sangha. Here he was, already a member of the noble Sangha, but he wanted to become a member of the conventional Sangha as well. The Buddha immediately said yes. He invited him to become a monk to practice to put an end to suffering. So the Sangha was established almost immediately after the Dhamma … 
  14. Constant, Easeful, Self
     … What you’re seeing is what the Buddha calls “becoming.” A little world develops in the mind and then you go into it. It’s that combination of the world developing and your going into it: That’s becoming and birth. And it’s driven by desire. There are lots of stages or steps in the process by which these little worlds to develop … 
  15. The Wealth of Simplicity
     … Anything that doesn’t have to become an issue, don’t let it become an issue, Don’t make it become an issue. Just keep it simple. That way, the really important things come to the fore, and you can deal with them straight on.
  16. Right View & Right Resolve
     … Your mind becomes more and more spacious, and you’re getting the mind to a state where it can look more clearly at what it’s doing. You begin to see the different forms of craving, and can let them go. Now, it may seem strange that right resolve doesn’t have resolve on going beyond becoming and non-becoming. After all, those are … 
  17. The Walls of Ignorance
     … By following the examples of the Noble Disciples, the third member of the Triple Refuge, we become Noble Disciples as well. That’s when the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha become a totally internalized refuge. And that’s where the refuge is really secure, where they all become one with no dividing lines among them, because at that point the mind becomes one with no … 
  18. The Path of Giving
     … When the “me” becomes an end in and of itself, you’re going to get run over because you’re lying down on the road. If you learn to treat these things, these aggregates, as a path and learn to give of them, you don’t get run over. You get to progress on the path. You get to the goal. The Dhamma becomes … 
  19. Stubborn Clinging
    Stubborn Clinging July 26, 2011 The term “becoming” refers to the mind’s habit of taking on an identity in a world of experience. This can refer to our sense of the world outside and our identity within that world, whether it’s the social world or the physical world. But “world” can also refer to worlds in the mind. As you meditate, you … 
  20. The Power of Choice
     … At the same time, you become more and more sensitive to this quality of choice, what you’re doing in the present moment. Because it’s not just what you focus on, it’s also how you focus, and what you’re creating through your focus. There’s a lot to be learned there. We create worlds for ourselves: That’s what becoming is … 
  21. Developing the Path
     … Truths of the will, though, require that you want them to be true for them to actually become true. For example, suppose you want to become a musician. For that to become true requires work on your part. It requires that you want it enough to do the necessary work. If you just sit around waiting for it to become true, it’s not … 
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