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- Overcoming Complacency… Then apply the qualities that come with concentration—mindfulness, alertness, discernment—to see even more subtle levels where you might still be complacent, where you’re still missing cause and effect. Keeping looking and experimenting until you reach the point where you can finally take it all apart. That’s when you’re free. But until you reach that point, constant vigilance is required …
- Attahi Attano Natho… You work at it and you find yourself getting more and more perceptive, more and more sensitive, more and more discerning as the practice progresses, as you keep committing yourself to the practice and reflecting on what you’re doing, and then taking what you’ve noticed and plowing that back into your next decision for what to do. So you do look out …
- The Buddha Respects Your Potential… In fact, it aids the mind in developing more and more discernment, more and more insight into what’s going on inside itself, to see the even subtler ways in which it’s causing trouble for itself. And when you cause trouble for yourself, you’re going to cause trouble for people outside. So, have some respect for the state of concentration. Have some …
- When You Don’t Like Your Selves… Develop your discernment as to how to master those strategies, so that your sense of self comes out and does the things that would really be helpful. When you can put it away, you can replace it with another one and another one as needed, until you finally get to the point where you’ve attained the highest happiness and there’s no need …
- The End of the World… But as he said, if you have discernment, then even if the only other thing you have is a machete, then you can set yourself up in life. In other words, you’ve got the skills, you’ve got the knowledge, the inquisitiveness, a sense of generosity, all these other treasures that you’ve developed: Those will see you through. Look at the forest …
- Make the Most of Right Now… Only when you’ve developed the discernment that can let go of these things will you not have to come back again and again to further becoming. It’s all fueled by our craving. There’s the same sentiment that Ratthapala had when he first listened to the Dhamma. He realized, as he said, The world is swept away; it has no shelter; you …
- Why Now… As the mind settles in, it can see itself a lot more clearly and become a lot more discerning about where it’s causing itself unnecessary suffering. And whatever the activity is that’s causing that suffering, it’s in a better position to let it go. So this is some of the work we do right now. We put the mind in good …
- Renunciation… You have to develop a lot of discernment as well. But, having this alternative pleasure makes it a lot easier to step back and see, well, that fascination with sensuality is really something you’d rather give up. The Buddha himself said that it was hard for him to give up sensuality, but when he realized that there was an important level of well …
- Ingenuity… The things you’ve read, the things you’ve heard, provide one level of discernment, but then as you try to develop these things in the mind, that takes things to a whole new level. Sometimes what seems very simple as it’s written down becomes a lot more complex when you actually try to apply it. Especially, as you try to apply different …
- Visakha Puja – Shaking the Earth… If they ask you, ‘What does your teacher teach?’ how would you answer them?” The monks took advantage of the fact that there was Sariputta who, among the Buddha’s students, was known to have the most discernment, so they asked him what he would say. He told them, “Tell them that your teacher teaches the ending of passion.” Then he said, because they …
- Values of the Noble Ones… generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, equanimity. Those are all good things to develop. You simply have to figure out which ones are appropriate right here and now. If the list of ten is too long, just think, “How about goodwill?” Goodwill is not just a pink-cotton-candy attitude you spread out with cloud machines. It’s basically thinking, “What …
- Meaning & Becoming… It includes generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, equanimity. When you develop these qualities, they take you out. So, if you’re looking for meaning and significance., it doesn’t have anything to do with the relationships you develop, although if you want to find what the Buddha calls an admirable friend, someone to helps you develop these qualities, that’s …
- A Conglomeration of Germs… If you use it to meditate—to give rise to concentration, to give rise to discernment—or as a means for generosity and virtue, that’s a sign that you really know how to use your body. Take advantage of this conglomerate of old kamma that you’ve got, and while you can hold it together, learn how to use it well.
- Equanimity as a Skill… You’re getting your mind under control, and you can develop qualities of discernment, mindfulness, and alertness to learn how to put aside your greed, aversion, and delusion. When you can do that, you benefit and the people around you will benefit, too. This is a part of your motivation for being here: that it’s going to be better for the people around …
- Cherish Your Friends… You develop virtue, concentration, discernment. These are your friends inside. And the same principle applies outside. If you have helpful friends, hold onto them, cherish them. And you try to be a good friend, a true friend, to that person too. So with regard to the question of holding on and letting go, the Buddha said you’ve got to be selective. There are …
- Don’t Be Burdensome… You need discernment to tell yourself—not only tell yourself but also to stick with the determination—that you’re going to go for what leads to true happiness, regardless of your likes. There’s that old principle of being willing to sacrifice lesser pleasures for greater pleasures. I think I’ve told you there was a translator who came to this passage and …
- Fangs in the Static… So, the purpose of concentration is to make you strong and to provide you with a basis for discernment, so that you can begin to see through the ways the mind lies to itself with its perceptions, with its labels of things. That way, when the static comes, and you can see, yes, there are fangs in the static, you know you don’t …
- Take the One Seat… The mind is active, and your discernment has to be active as well, in order to outsmart all your active old habits.
- A Home for the Mind… You can maintain that as a steady goal only if the mind is well trained, if you’re mindful, alert, concentrated, discerning. These are the qualities that we develop as we meditate. Then there’s that reflection on the requisites: the food, clothing, shelter, medicine that we use. Why do we use these things? Because we have to look after the body. It’s …
- Learning by Doing… We’re here to develop our own sensitivity, because it’s through our sensitivity that we develop discernment. We see things as they are actually happening and then can do something about it. When you settle the mind down like this, first let it get some rest. We tend to be frazzled by the way we live in the world, and it’s good …
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