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  2. Training the Mind Not to Suffer
  3. The Mind Well Trained Brings Happiness
  4. Training the Heart, Training the Mind
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. Protecting the Mind from Itself
     … We start by trying to get the mind still. Then we notice: When the mind is trying to be still but it’s still not still, what’s wrong? What’s getting in the way? What can be done to get rid of those obstacles? When you can approach every problem this way, then there’s no problem that’s going to be beyond … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. The Strength to See
     … That way, you learn a lot about the mind. The things you learn about the mind in this way are necessary for gaining awakening: to see how the mind fashions things, and how it fashions pain in particular, in a lot of unnecessary ways. It’s only when you see how unnecessary these fabrications are that you can gain release from them. So that … 
  13. A Home for the Mind (med-fi)
  14. The Care & Feeding of the Mind (outdoors)
  15. The Mind on Its Own Two Feet
  16. The Mind Likes to Lie to Itself
  17. The Ten Priorities
     … It’s an important quality to develop in the mind. Other people respect you; you have more respect for yourself. As for renunciation, this deals specifically with learning how to renounce sensual pleasures as we look for happiness inside the mind. Most of us would like to have the sensual pleasures and the happiness inside the mind. But there are many areas where it … 
  18. Reflect
     … How is the mind reacting to it? What is the mind’s intention behind that claim of truth? And what holds on to that particular truth? What does holding on to it do to the mind? What does it inspire you to do? You have to learn how to be reflective in this way. Otherwise, the insights that come during concentration can lead you … 
  19. Making an Effort
     … Even before we sense things, there’s an element of fabrication going on in the mind. If the mind weren’t active, if it weren’t putting effort into this, it wouldn’t be able to see, hear, smell, taste, or touch anything at all. Then there’s all the effort that goes into being happy to do this, sometimes requiring the mind to … 
  20. Dhamma Survivalism
     … Otherwise, the mind tends to go into the worlds of its thoughts. When you’re inside them, you can’t see the process by which they’re created. So as we meditate, we’re actually trying to gain a sense of the mind as something separate from its thoughts, from its perceptions, from all sensory contact, because it’s only when it’s separate … 
  21. Doing, Maintaining, Using
     … If the mind slips off, come right back. Slips off again, bring it back again. Don’t get discouraged, but you’re here. You mean business. You’re not here to think about this, that, or the other thing, what you did last week, what you’re going to do next week. You’re here to get the mind to learn how to stay … 
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