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  2. Healing the Mind
  3. Releasing the Mind
  4. Cooking the Mind
  5. Unburden the Mind
  6. Taming the Mind
  7. Gladdening the Mind
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. Your Inner Mob
    Your Inner Mob September 6, 2005 The mind is like a town meeting: lots of people, lots of different opinions. Sometimes the town meeting is well run — people are reasonable, courteous — but often it goes out of control. People start shouting, and a kind of mob psychology takes over. If you’re standing outside the mob, it’s easy enough to see that the … 
  13. Long-Term Welfare
     … The Buddha talks about using concentration to gladden the mind, to steady the mind, to release the mind. You do that in the course of learning how to use the concentration, so that it really feels good for whatever ails you. For example, if you’re feeling tired, there are certain ways of concentrating that give you more energy. If you’re feeling stressed … 
  14. Grace & Dignity
     … As the Buddha once said, the mind is capable of almost anything. Think of all the animals in the animal kingdom—all the different shapes and sizes and classifications. He said the mind is more variegated than that. The mind can take on the role of any animal. When the world is going well, it’s easy to live a fairly moral life and … 
  15. The Committee of the Mind
    The Committee of the Mind April 22, 2022 We have that phrase in English, “to make up your mind.” It’s an interesting way of saying “to decide.” So make up your mind that you’re going to stay right here with one thing, with the breath. Make that your intention and try to maintain that intention all the way through the hour. You … 
  16. Vows
     … But if you develop good solid qualities of the mind, those qualities are independent of the world. If you make the mind solid, then you have something solid to look back on and something solid to take with you. After all, it’s all right there in the mind. It’s right where you need it.
  17. Breathing to Awakening
     … This is why we look into the qualities of the mind. As we get older, the strength of the body goes down, but the mind doesn’t have to go down that way. But there will be a strong temptation: As the body weakens, the mind weakens as well and tends to give up on any extra efforts. You want to fight that temptation … 
  18. To Know the Unconditioned
     … That’s why the very first verse in the Dhammapada says, “The mind is the forerunner of all things. *Mano-pubbaṅgamā **dhammā. Mano-seṭṭhā *mano-mayā. All phenomena are excelled by the mind. They’re made by the mind.” The problem is, our ordinary consciousness is something that’s fabricated, something we fabricate, and everything fabricated has to be stressful. That’s the nature … 
  19. The Mind Well Trained
  20. Jewels in the Mind
  21. Focus Strengthens the Mind
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