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  2. In Accordance with the Dhamma (outdoors)
  3. A Refuge in the Dhamma (outdoors)
  4. A Mature Joy in the Dhamma
  5. Willing to Question Yourself
    The Buddha talks about the stages in learning the Dhamma. First you have to find someone you trust, because the Dhamma isn’t just words. It’s primarily a quality of the heart. The essence of the Dhamma is awakening, which is a quality of the heart. We have words to point to it. But it’s not about words. So you want to … 
  6. To Test the Dhamma Is to Test Yourself
  7. Duties of the World, Duties of the Dhamma
  8. Listen to the Dhamma 24 Hours a Day
  9. Possessiveness
     … People who claim to be Dhamma teachers are the ones who seem to hate the Dhamma the most. They’re always changing it. But you can make up your mind that whatever they do, that’s their business. You’re going to do your best to tame yourself, bring yourself in line with the Dhamma. That’s how you keep the Dhamma alive. And … 
  10. The Brightness of the Dhamma, the Darkness of the World
  11. Verified Confidence
    One of the reasons that people fear death is because they’re not sure of the true Dhamma. Now, a lot of people have never even heard of the true Dhamma. But still, they don’t know what’s going to happen after death: “Is there such a thing as a deathless element? Is death a wipeout? Can your actions have any influence on … 
  12. To Be Worthy of the Dhamma
     … I was reading a piece today by a board member of a Buddhist organization talking about how the Dhamma has to change. He said, “Yes, the Dhamma is timeless, but/and”—he had both “but” and “and”—“it’s got to meet people’s needs.” Well, they want to meet people’s wants, and they’re treating it as a commodity, something you have … 
  13. The Dhamma Wheel
    The sutta we chanted just now, Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion, was the Buddha’s first sermon. And sometimes it’s asked, “Where’s the wheel? It’s not mentioned in the sutta itself.” There are two explanations. One is that the wheel was a symbol of power. When a king could get on his chariot and drive his wheels wherever he … 
  14. Encouragement
    There’s a famous passage where Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, the Buddha’s stepmother, comes to see the Buddha after her ordination and asks for a brief Dhamma teaching. He teaches her eight principles for deciding what is Dhamma and Vinaya, and what’s not. Those principles can be applied in two directions: One, when you hear somebody teach the Dhamma, you ask yourself, “What kind … 
  15. A Dhamma Bucket List
     … Sometimes you look at the human world and you say, “This is not a world I’d want to come back to.” But it is possible to practice the Dhamma on the deva level. That one extra quality is learning: reading the Dhamma, memorizing the Dhamma, so that you have good Dhamma phrases in mind. Think about the moment of death. As you approach … 
  16. Lift Up Your Mind
     … And he didn’t set it out for us to say, “I don’t like this, I’m going to replace it with that.” Or, “Now that we’re living in the twenty-first century in America, we need a more streamlined Dhamma, or an easier Dhamma, or a Dhamma that’s more in line with what we want.” After all, what has changed … 
  17. Looking in the Dhamma Mirror
    Sometimes after I’ve given a Dhamma talk, a person will come up and say, “I wish so and so had been here to hear this.” The thought that immediately comes up in my own mind is, “Well, did you hear this?” We’re here to train ourselves. The Dhamma is a mirror for us to use to look at ourselves. The Buddha uses … 
  18. Magha Puja: Showing Respect with the Practice
     … So when paying respect to the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha in the way that the Buddha recommended—by practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma—we’re able to realize the goal he had in teaching the Dhamma, which was that people would benefit from it, they would see it as worth testing, and they would find that it really leads … 
  19. Dhamma Is a Quality of the Heart
    Dhamma Is a Quality of the Heart June 26, 2018 Most of us first encounter the Dhamma through words—words we’ve read; words we’ve heard—which means that we often miss the fact that Dhamma is not a quality of words. It’s a quality of the heart. The Buddha discovered the Dhamma in his heart and then he put it into … 
  20. Protection for the Holidays
     … A lot of people ask, “How do I fit Dhamma practice into that context?” Well, if Dhamma practice fits into that context, it’s not doing its job. When it’s doing its job, it’s going to create some awkward moments, when you suddenly catch yourself doing something that you’ve done many, many times before, the games people play with one another … 
  21. Recollecting the Buddha
     … But in addition to having your home base—what in Pali they call *vihara-dhamma—*Ajaan Lee recommends that you have what he calls gocara-*dhamma *foraging places for the mind. These are meditation topics you can use to deal with specific problems as they come up. One list that’s popular in Thailand is called the guardian meditations: recollection of the Buddha, goodwill … 
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