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  2. Marshalling the Emotions
     … If there’s any way out, this is it.” And so he pursued that conviction with a strong sense of clarity and confidence. Ajaan Suwat, when led the meditation here at Metta, would often say, “Start with a sense of pasada, that this is your way out. Stick with the practice with that sense of conviction, confidence, desire. If you approach the meditation in … 
  3. The Wisdom of Tenacity
     … Rather, it comes from conviction in the importance of your actions. It’s as simple as that. Just learning how to apply that principle across the board turns conviction into wisdom. Normally we sometimes believe in the importance of our actions and sometimes don’t. We dither around. Sometimes we don’t like to think that our actions are going to yield results because … 
  4. Not Getting What You Want
     … But there’s one that goes beyond that. “From suffering,” it says, “there’s conviction”—in other words, conviction in the Buddha’s teachings that there is a way out. Then, based on that conviction, you practice until you gain a sense of joy. The joy becomes the basis for concentration, then discernment, then release. So that version of dependent co-arising ends positively … 
  5. Ups & Downs
     … It has to be based on a certain amount of equanimity and a certain amount of conviction. All too often we hear that Buddhism is a religion with no need for faith, no need for conviction, but the simple fact that you’re sitting here working with the mind requires some conviction. Especially when the downs go for a long time: You’ve got … 
  6. Five Strengths
     … The first one, as I said, is conviction: conviction in the principle that what you do is really important, the choices that you make have a big impact on your life. You’re free to make those choices. We’re not automatons, we’re not wired by fate. We always have the opportunity to choose to do the skillful thing in any given situation … 
  7. Radiating Goodness
     … He says, the way out of suffering comes from conviction. There’s a description of what’s called transcendent dependent co-arising. It’s the list of the factors in the mind that leads you to release. They begin with ignorance leading to suffering, and from suffering they go to conviction. There is stress, dis-ease in life. But the way out is to … 
  8. Good & Independent
     … What do you have to change? Here again, we’re guided by conviction. As the Buddha said, conviction is the proper response to suffering. Our ordinary response is bewilderment and a search. We’re confused by why we suffer; we search for someone who might know a way or two to put an end to that suffering. So we’re trying to convert that … 
  9. In the Land of Wrong View
     … One, people who have conviction, i.e. conviction in the power of human action, the power of training the mind, that it really is important, that your actions are not just throw away, that you can’t be apathetic about what you’re doing. That’s the first prerequisite. The second one is that you want to find people who are generous—not only … 
  10. Effective Self-Discipline
     … Another quality that precedes persistence in some of the lists is conviction: conviction that all of this is worth it, that this really will work. In the beginning of the practice, you gain conviction from the fact that it simply makes sense: that training the mind is going to help in other areas of your life, and that what you do does really have … 
  11. Factors for Stream Entry
     … If they don’t have conviction in the Buddha’s awakening, you don’t know what they have conviction in: something, someplace else. If they’re not virtuous, you can’t trust that you’re safe around them. If they’re not generous, you always wonder what they’re trying to get out of you. And if they’re not really discerning, you wonder … 
  12. Addictive Thinking
     … So until the truth is verified when we’ve seen that happen in our minds, it has to be taken on conviction. But then you ask yourself, if you don’t have conviction in this, what do you have conviction in? The fact that we act shows that we’re convinced of something. Otherwise, we wouldn’t put forth the energy to try to … 
  13. A Sense of Yourself
     … So you have conviction in the power of your own actions and in your potential. Ask yourself, how much conviction do you have in these things? A lot of us have some pretty negative commentators inside, the inner critic that just tears everything down and us immediately opposed to conviction. You have to ask yourself, why do you nourish that inner critic? Sometimes it … 
  14. Always Observe Your Mind
     … After all, conviction: What’s the message of conviction? Think about the Buddha’s three knowledges on the night of his awakening. The first two knowledges had to do with rebirth. An important message was that rebirth was fueled by kamma. Where you’re reborn is determined by your actions. And your actions are very complex. There were cases that the Buddha saw where … 
  15. Treasures from the East
     … The first is conviction, which, of course, means conviction in the Buddha’s awakening. But what does that mean for us? It means that there’s a human being who, through his own efforts, was able to find a deathless happiness; who able to teach it so that other people can find it too; and the qualities he used to find that happiness are … 
  16. Slogging Through Difficulties
     … This is why faith or conviction is one of the strengths, the very first one: conviction in the Buddha’s awakening, which basically means conviction in the principle of karma and specifically the conviction that our happiness and our misery, our pleasure and our pain, really do come from our own actions. We can learn from our past mistakes and through our own efforts … 
  17. Recollecting the Devas
     … Another quality that makes you a deva is conviction—in particular, conviction in the Buddha’s awakening. This doesn’t mean conviction just in the fact that the Buddha was awakened but also in the way he awakened: how he did it by questioning his mind and examining his mind to see what was skillful, what was unskillful, and by having the heedfulness to … 
  18. New Feeding Habits
     … The first is conviction—conviction in your actions, that your actions can make a difference, and that human action can take you all the way to a happiness so intense and so totally satisfying that you’re no longer interested in going back to feeding in your old ways. We tend to think of a life that doesn’t have the ups and downs … 
  19. Investment Strategies
     … And so, you need to have conviction that this is true in order to develop these powers. That’s why conviction is a wealth: something that helps you stash away good qualities for the future, because conviction comes down to the idea that the training of the mind can make all the difference in the world. As you’re sitting here focusing on the … 
  20. Verified Confidence
     … That’ll give more strength to your conviction. It’ll help keep you on the path to the point where that conviction becomes verified confidence. It’s at that point that there’s no more fear of death. So, do what you can to see if that promise is true.
  21. Admirable Friendship
     … If you find someone whose conviction is admirable, you ask that person about conviction. If you find someone whose effort and persistence are admirable, you ask him about persistence. In other words, you take an interest in these things. The things that we ask questions about, those are the things we’re interested in, those are the things that direct our practice. And it … 
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