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  2. To the Far Shore
     … So you want to be able to distinguish the thought of anger from its physical results. All too often when we sense those physical results, we think, “I must still be angry,” so we pick the anger up again and run with it some more. But if you can see the distinction—that the thought of anger and the physical results are two different … 
  3. Four Roles to Play
     … One of those activities is directed thought and evaluation. In plain terms, that’s how you talk to yourself. And you’re talking to yourself all the time. One problem is that you’re usually doing it in ignorance. Either you don’t know that you’re talking to yourself, or there are many layers of conversation going on inside. Another problem is that … 
  4. Cause & Effect Right Now
     … A thought comes up in the mind and we feel compelled to run with it, or to complete it, or to figure out exactly what it’s all about. But because there are a lot of thoughts that aren’t worth following that way, you have to learn how to sort them out. And when there’s a pain in the body, it’s … 
  5. Fires of the Mind
     … In other words, you protect the mind from all other thoughts aside from the one thought of the breath. That’s what you’re going to be burning into. Your focus usually starts off as a very tiny little flame. You’ve got one spot in the body where you’re focused. It’s like setting fire to something that you’ve got to … 
  6. A Mind Without Inertia
     … We’re attached to passion for sensual thoughts, our obsession with sensual thoughts. We love to think about sensual pleasures. If we can’t get one sensual pleasure, well, we’re happy to think about another one. But we’re really attached to the thinking, even though it makes us suffer. We think of passion as a good thing. A lot of people say … 
  7. A Strong Mind
     … The question is, what do you want to develop? You could sit here and develop all kinds of thoughts. But that’s not what the word means. The word really means developing good qualities in the mind. It’s like exercising the mind, in the same way that you exercise the body. If you want the body to be strong, you can’t simply … 
  8. Getting Back on Your Feet
     … If thoughts of lust come up, you say, “Okay, take your body apart first. Which part of the body, if you lay them out on the ground, would inspire lust?” Then remember that the other person’s body has that same type of thing. Hold that perception in mind. In other words, instead of allowing lust to do the looking, you have these thoughts … 
  9. Moving Between Thought Worlds
    Moving Between Thought Worlds December 27, 2008 We’ve all had the experience when we’re asleep of finding ourselves in a dream and, for a while, believing that what’s happening in the dream is real. Then something alerts us that something is wrong with the dream, and finally to the fact that we’re dreaming. Usually that’s enough for us to … 
  10. Truth Through Training
     … Our thoughts have to have a marker someplace in the body so that we can remember a particular thought, and if the thought’s complex, there are going to be markers all over the body. So the breath gets squeezed out of those spots. But now we’re allowing the breath to have full range. And as the breath has full range, the body … 
  11. The Perfection of Freedom
     … his pointing out things that I’ve never thought of as possible at all. Beginning with simple things like, what’s going on in your body? Is there energy movement? How is it related to the breath? I had never thought of that possibility. So learn to explore it. Explore possibilities in terms of the amount of effort you can put into the practice … 
  12. Not Crushed by the World
     … That helps to pull you away from your tendency to go floating out in thought worlds that travel around and burst and drop you off someplace else. You fully inhabit right here. The more you fully inhabit the body with a large sense of awareness, the harder it is to fit into little thought worlds. This is a basic principle in establishing your sense … 
  13. Working Through the Breath
     … When we’re focusing here on the breath, directing our thoughts to the breath, evaluating the breath, we’re actually engaging in all the three levels of fabrication: bodily fabrication, which is the in-and-out breath; verbal fabrication, which is directed thought and evaluation; and then mental fabrication—feelings and perceptions. The feelings here are feeling tones, such as pleasure, pain, or neither … 
  14. A Blameless Happiness
     … There was a period when he actually thought the best way to find true well-being was to deny yourself all kinds of pleasures He finally realized, however, that that’s not the way. And he found the middle way because he was able to realize there was more to life than just pain and sensual pleasure. There were other kinds of pleasure, other … 
  15. Unsentimental Goodwill
     … So it’s not because people are lovable that you spread thoughts of goodwill to them. You spread goodwill because you need protection. And you want to be able to draw on that attitude of goodwill with regard to anybody, at anytime. The Buddha talks about the case where bandits have pinned you down and are savagely sawing off your limbs with a two … 
  16. Heedful, Ardent, & Resolute
     … This applies to your thoughts, your words, and your deeds, although with your thoughts you don’t have to talk it over to anybody else. You just realize that that was a harmful thought, feel ashamed of the fact that you’ve stooped to that kind of thinking, and resolve not to repeat it. This practice, too, is based on heedfulness, realizing that you … 
  17. Put Your Heart into It
     … Any thoughts that help in that, you try to develop, to encourage. Any thoughts that’d pull you someplace else, you try to abandon. You put your whole heart into this. In fact, the Buddha uses the word citta here again. That means that you aren’t just thinking about it. You’re intent. You’re wholeheartedly doing it. As for resolute, the Buddha … 
  18. The Practice of Right View
     … The things we intentionally do with our body, with our words, and with our thoughts all count as kamma and they all have results. There’s no such thing as idle thinking. It may be idle in its intent, but it actually has an impact on the mind. It’s something you’re doing, and it leaves kammic traces. Just as the Buddha discouraged … 
  19. Life Well Lived
     … Because sometimes when a thought goes through the mind, there’s a pattern of tension in the body. If you breathe through that tension, the thought goes away. But in particular, notice to see how the movie pulls you in. These little plays that get put on in the mind: What is it that makes them so absorbing? You notice, if you’re flying … 
  20. Learning Right Speech
     … Think of those factors of directed thought and evaluation. Those are the factors that precede speech. They lie at the basis of all our verbal actions, but they’re also part of how you get the mind to settle down. You have to talk to yourself in the right way. So this is something you do train yourself in. You can’t say, “Well … 
  21. Responsible Happiness
     … Any other thoughts that come in right now into the mind, you’re not responsible for them. You don’t have to worry about them. You don’t have to check them out to see whether they’re good or bad or indifferent. You’re giving the mind a chance just to be in the present moment and find a sense of well-being … 
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