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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. Control
     … a good foundation here for the mind to stay in the present moment, for the body and the mind to feel on good terms with each other. Think of the breathing is a whole-body process. Which parts the body do you tend to tense up when you breathe in? To what extent are you adding a lot of unnecessary tension to the process … 
  10. NR The Mind's Many Potentials
  11. Constructing a Home for the Mind
  12. The Quick Reversal of the Mind
  13. A User Manual for the Mind
  14. Training the Mind Not to Suffer
  15. The Mind Well Trained Brings Happiness
  16. Training the Heart, Training the Mind
  17. Beyond Nature
     … The advantage of coming to a place like this is that you get to look deep inside the mind to see where the wellsprings of these cravings come from, this process of fabrication that lies deep within the mind. As we meditate, we’re trying to study fabrication as we experience it. This is the conditioning process in the mind and in the body … 
  18. Less is More
     … That’s why we train the mind. To see this clearly, we have to get the mind still. Get the mind with one object, so it can settle down and have a good solid foundation that doesn’t shift around all the time. The more you shift around, the less you see. You might think that the more territory you cover, the more sights … 
  19. Learning from Labor
     … There will come a point, though, where the mind begins incline to something that doesn’t have to be created. You see that in order to maintain this concentration, it takes work. The work gets subtler, that’s true, but wouldn’t it be even better not to have to do anything at all? What would that be like? The mind can incline to … 
  20. Inner Strength, Inner Wealth
     … These are useful ways of looking at the mind, because then you can apply the same lessons to the way you feed the mind itself, not just the body. The sense of hunger in the mind for, say, companionship or the hunger for entertainment: Is this a hunger that you really want to go with? You may identify it, you perceive it as hunger … 
  21. A Connoisseur of Happiness
     … Intoxicating pleasure is the kind that dulls the mind so you can’t really see what you’re doing. The most obvious examples of this sort of pleasure are those that come from alcohol and drugs, but there are other intoxicating pleasures as well. Anything that excites a very strong addiction, that dulls the mind, dulls your perceptions: That’s a kind of pleasure … 
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