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  2. Healing the Mind
  3. Purifying the Mind
  4. Training the Mind
  5. Steady the Mind
  6. Training the Mind
  7. Healing the Mind
  8. Releasing the Mind
  9. Cooking the Mind
  10. Unburden the Mind
  11. Taming the Mind
  12. Gladdening the Mind
  13. Goodwill, Gratitude, No Guilt
     … Where does that impact come from? It comes from the mind. The mind is making choices. If it doesn’t pay much attention to what it’s doing and it’s not really determined to change things, it just goes along in its own ways, forgetting that it’s creating all kinds of influences on people and things around you. The mind is an … 
  14. Conditions for Concentration
     … And because it’s unskillful, I don’t have to do it.” The mind may give you all kinds of reasons for why you’ve got to think in those unskillful ways: “You’ve been thinking in those ways for who knows how long, and that’s the way your mind is.” But one of the Buddha’s most important discoveries is that the … 
  15. To Discern Suffering
     … What is this added suffering? As it turns out, this is the only suffering that really weighs down the mind. There can be pain in the body, but if there’s no clinging around the pain, there’s not going to be any suffering in the mind. The good news is that the suffering in the mind is unnecessary. You don’t have to … 
  16. After the Fire
     … This is why, as things begin to settle down in the mind, you can’t just allow the mind to drift off anyway it wants, or to latch on to a feeling of pleasure and just take the pleasure as your object, because it begins to get fuzzy after a while, and the mind begins to get dull. So once the mind is still … 
  17. Your Territory
     … And that’s a lot of what perception is in the mind: You have an agreement that this means that, that means this, and once you’ve made those agreements, the mind can go surfing through all kinds of territories. X means y, y means z, z means a, a means b. It goes around and around and around, through all kinds of associations … 
  18. Question Your Actions
     … There may be a habitual thought that goes through the mind when, say, the possibility of anger comes up. Another part of the mind says, “Yes, let’s go with it.” What is that? That’s something you want to uncover. So we meditate to understand what we’re doing while we’re meditating—to get more sensitive to the mind, the different processes … 
  19. Ānāpānasati Day
     … So where is your mind? What does it need? The remaining steps deal with getting the mind to counteract whatever is out of balance. You can gladden the mind as you breathe in, breathe out. You can steady and concentrate the mind as you breathe in, breathe out. You can release the mind from whatever thoughts oppress it as you breathe in, breathe out … 
  20. Do, Maintain, Use
     … You begin to see how the mind slips off, how you can get it back again, how a little thought begins to form, and then the mind denies that it formed. Then it waits until your mindfulness slips, your alertness slips, and it’ll take over. So you have to watch out for that. This is how concentration begins to develop discernment, and how … 
  21. Choosing & Watching Your Choices
     … How can you know the long-term results of something you did a while back? It’s partly because the mind observing is part of the thing you’re trying to train. Ajaan Chah has a nice passage where he talks about how you’re coming here to observe the precepts, to meditate, so this function of the mind as the observer is something … 
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