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  2. Fixing Food for the Mind
  3. The Garden of the Mind
  4. When the Mind Is Obstreperous
  5. Making the Mind Your Friend
  6. A Fence for the Mind
  7. A Monument for the Mind
  8. Strategies for Generosity
     … This is where meditation comes in, because simply the way the mind relates to itself uses up a lot of excess energy in a very unnecessary way. When you give in to greed, anger, and delusion, you’re destroying your energy. There’s a battle going on in the mind all the time. When the mind doesn’t know how to relate to the … 
  9. Cooking Food for the Mind
    Just as the body needs nourishment, the mind needs nourishment as well. And just as there’s good and bad food for the body, there’s good and bad food for the mind. As meditators, we try to learn how to make good food, now to nourish the mind so that its good qualities get strengthened. So as you’re meditating, you can think … 
  10. The Gift of Meditation
     … In other words, you analyze what’s going on in the mind to see what’s skillful and what’s not skillful. If you see that something is skillful, you try to encourage it; if it’s not, you try to discourage it. This means, on the one hand, if something unskillful has arisen in the mind already, you do what you can to … 
  11. Thinking Your Way to Stillness
     … As you explore that, as you think about it and analyze it and watch it, the mind drops its other interests, objects, and preoccupations, and gets absorbed through the process of analysis. This is one of the bases of success, vimansa: concentration based on analysis. But there are times when the mind will refuse to settle down with the breath. It’s got other … 
  12. Days Fly Past
     … What are you doing right now? If you’re putting the mind in shape so that death won’t shake it, you’re doing the right thing with right now. Why does death shake the mind? Because we identify with the body, we identify with feelings, perceptions, thought constructs, sensory consciousness. As long as we identify with things, we’re going to be shaken … 
  13. Endurance Made Easier
     … The first step is to focus on the mind. To what extent is the mind making it harder to endure these things? The Buddha gives the example of a person shot by an arrow. And being shot by one arrow isn’t enough: He shoots himself with more arrows. The first arrow is the actual pain; the extra arrows are all his mental flailing … 
  14. Conspiracies in the Mind
    Conspiracies in the Mind September 11, 2012 The world is enthralled with conspiracy theories—political conspiracies, religious conspiracies. I’ve even read books commenting on the Buddha’s teachings, saying that he couldn’t possibly have meant what he said, this business about going beyond desire. Sometimes they point out the paradox: If you want to put an end to desire, there you are … 
  15. The Four Frames of Reference
    When people first come here to stay for a period of meditation, it’s important to keep the four frames of reference in mind as a way of getting the mind into seclusion. But it’s also interesting to note that when the Buddha gave parting instructions to his monks, one of his themes was to stay with the four frames of reference. The … 
  16. A Well-stocked Memory
     … You want to be able to recognize these things before they invade the mind, because often when they do invade the mind, they remain. So take some time to memorize some Dhamma, learn the chants so that you’re not having to look at the chanting book all the time. When they’re memorized, at least they’ll be sloshing around in the mind … 
  17. Commit & Reflect All Around
     … The mind is the forerunner of all things, they are made by the mind, and they are made excellent by the mind. In other words, what the mind does is the source of these things. So you want to look inside: What are you doing? You don’t want to think that you’re passively watching something. There’s a lot going on under … 
  18. NR The Mind's Many Potentials
  19. Constructing a Home for the Mind
  20. The Quick Reversal of the Mind
  21. A User Manual for the Mind
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