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  2. 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 … 
  3. The Mind Well Trained
  4. Jewels in the Mind
  5. Focus Strengthens the Mind
  6. Discernment Purifies the Mind
  7. Diseases of the Mind
  8. Learning about the Mind
  9. Control over the Mind
  10. Balancing the Mind (outside)
  11. Sensitive to the Mind
  12. Bodywork for the Mind
  13. Food for the Mind
  14. Worlds in the Mind
  15. To Develop the Mind
  16. To Quiet the Mind
  17. Medicine for the Mind
  18. 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 … 
  19. 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 … 
  20. 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 … 
  21. 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 … 
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