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- Beyond Inter-eating… the strengths of conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. These are the qualities that strengthen the mind. In other words, they provide strength and they are strengths in themselves. Conviction is conviction in the principle that the Buddha really was awakened. And one of the major things he woke to was the principle of action, kamma: that our lives are shaped by our actions …
- Acceptance… The first step in regaining some of that power is to have the conviction that, yes, the Buddha did gain awakening through his own efforts and, yes, he did it through developing qualities of mind that we have in a potential form and that we can develop too. That conviction is meant to be a challenge: Are you going to live your life without …
- A Sense of Yourself… One is conviction; the others are virtue, learning, generosity, discernment, and quick-wittedness. These are all skills you can develop. You want to have a sense of where you are, where your strengths are, where your weaknesses are in these areas, so that you can use your strengths to make up for your weaknesses. So: How’s your conviction? Are you really convinced that …
- Audacious & Undaunted… This is why when they say that you have conviction in the Buddha, it’s conviction in his awakening, because this is the event that’s most relevant to the problem we’re facing. As he said when he first went out into the wilderness, he saw that he was subject to aging, illness, and death. He wanted to find something that was not …
- Self-starting… One of the emotions that’s supposed to be inspired by that reflection is pasada, conviction: i.e., conviction that we’re not trapped forever in the cycle of aging, illness, and death, that actions really can get us out. This is why we train the mind. Actions come from the mind and, fortunately, the mind can be trained. It’s not stuck in …
- Relating to Kamma… intellectually because it’s related to the issue of conviction, or saddha. We hear the word conviction—or even worse, saddha is often translated as faith—and we think that we’re being asked to commit to something that we’re not really sure about, that we don’t have any means of knowing. But that’s not what conviction means in the Buddha …
- A Position of Strength… So you start with the first strength, the strength of the conviction: that your actions really are important, they require care, and they require this kind of foundation. Then you need persistence or effort. This has to build on conviction, because you might find yourself getting more and more tired when the days are long or your body’s not feeling strong. On those …
- Maintained by Fabrication… We take this on conviction. But it’s a good faith. It’s a good conviction. And it’s a good thing to keep in mind as we practice, because as the Buddha warns us, a lot of the other “for the sakes of” that we could follow—the ones we take as a guide as we keep fabricating ourselves, fabricating our experience, and …
- Mindfulness of Death… There’s conviction—conviction in the Buddha’s awakening. Virtue—making sure that you follow the precepts. Generosity—you’re generous with your wealth, with your time. As the Buddha said in another reference to a burning house, when a house is about to burn down, you don’t leave valuables in the house. You get them out of the house—and the ones …
- The Buddha’s Buffet… The first one, of course, is conviction. Conviction here means conviction in the fact of the Buddha’s awakening, that he really did gain awakening through his own efforts, setting an example that this is what’s possible through human effort. Also, there was the content of the awakening, which includes the fact of rebirth and the power of karma and how complex karma …
- Inner Wealth… The first is conviction. And it’s not just a floating conviction, a general sense of confidence. It’s very particular: You have confidence in the principle of karma. What does that mean? It means that you believe you really are responsible for your own actions. You believe that your actions give results, and that the results are determined by the quality of your …
- Potentials for Energy… In the five strengths or the five faculties, persistence comes after conviction. This goes hand in hand with desire. You want to find an end to suffering. You want to at least alleviate a lot of your suffering. And if you believe that the Buddha was awakened, and that he proved that human beings can do this, that gives focus to your desire—and …
- Noble Treasures… First there’s conviction. Traditionally, this means conviction in the Buddha’s awakening, and that translates into the principle that he gained awakening through his own efforts. He really did find the deathless happiness, and the qualities he had to develop in the course of perfecting his skills and using his own efforts were qualities that we all have in potential form. He took …
- A Producer Mentality… In both cases, the list starts with conviction. The four bases of success start with desire. The noble eightfold path starts with right view and right resolve: right view about what’s going to cause suffering, what’s not going to cause suffering, what’s going to take you away from suffering, and then the resolve to do what needs to be done to …
- Strength for Stillness… How do you strengthen them? First through conviction, the conviction that this is a good thing to do, this practice we’re doing here. Something taught by people of no defilement: people who have found true happiness; people who have no ulterior motive in teaching this to anyone else. They’d found that this method worked. They’d tested it inside and passed it …
- Strong Through Admirable Friendship… One, they have conviction in the Buddha’s awakening. Two, they’re virtuous. Three, they’re generous. And four, they’re discerning. You want to look for people like that and associate with them. You try to emulate them. You ask them how they develop their conviction. What inspires them to be generous and virtuous? What kind of discernment have they developed? And how …
- Treasures Beyond Death… The first is conviction: conviction in the fact that the Buddha was awakened, along with the implications of that conviction, which come down to the fact that true happiness is possible and it can be attained through human efforts. It doesn’t require supernatural abilities, just taking the abilities you have now and developing them. That conviction is a treasure because it encourages you …
- The Power of Your Actions… It starts with having conviction in the Buddha’s awakening—that, yes, the Buddha did gain awakening—and conviction in the* how* of his awakening, that through the power of his own actions, he learned a lot about the* what*, in other words, what action is. He said it’s your intentions. There were people at the time who taught that action was basically …
- The Truth of Transcendence… She cited a text in the Canon where the Buddha starts out with dependent co-arising up through suffering and then from suffering talks about how suffering gives rise to conviction and conviction gives rise to effort and joy, concentration, discernment, all the way up to release. So her conclusion was that release, too, is caused; therefore, she said, nibbana is also a conditioned …
- The Graduated Discourse… Heedfulness, of course, is the basis for the five strengths, and the first of the five strengths is conviction. There’s a passage where the Buddha talks about how conviction arises out of suffering. And it’s precisely in this way: You see that you’ve been suffering and you realize that it’s because of your own actions—you can’t blame other …
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