Search results for: "Skillfulness"

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  2. Four Roles to Play
     … Right effort requires you to generate desire, exert persistence, uphold your intent to develop what’s skillful and abandon what’s unskillful. You have to use your discernment to figure out what’s skillful and what’s not skillful, and how to encourage what’s skillful and discourage what’s not. So concentration always requires all four. The difference among the different types of … 
  3. Patience & Curiosity
     … Back in the time of the Buddha, you would expect people to have developed lots of skills in their lives. The Buddha would often draw analogies, saying that the skills of a meditator are like the skills of a warrior, the skills of a cook, the skills of a carpenter, the skills of an archer, of an acrobat. He could expect that people would … 
  4. Truths of the Will
     … If you refuse to work at a skill until you get the evidence that it’s a worthwhile skill and you have the capacity for doing it, the skill will never happen. You’ve got to believe in the skill, and you’ve got to believe in yourself. That belief is the primary ingredient that will make that skill a truth, a reality. Meditation … 
  5. Getting the Most Out of Now
     … Things pass away, and sometimes the things you did in order to gain those pleasures were not all that skillful. But if you focus on the present moment with the thought of developing skill, then you have something to carry with you. The more skill you develop, the better, the more you’ve benefited. So even though we’re focusing on the present moment … 
  6. Skills for Dying
  7. Main Skill, The
  8. Skillful & Unskillful Clinging
  9. Skills You Need
  10. Skills for Freedom
  11. Honesty & Integrity
     … It’s all a question of skill. Years back, I was teaching a retreat, and one of the themes of the retreat was just this: the skills of the mind, starting with skills in your outside behavior. If you don’t have the attitude that you want to be skillful in your words and your deeds, it’s going to be hard to develop … 
  12. Delight in Persistence
     … How do you figure things out? First you have to develop the desire to master the skill. You think about how important it is. They’ve done studies about people who become really, really good at certain skills. In every case, those people have a very live sense of the advantages that come from mastering the skill, and the dangers that come from not … 
  13. Skills to Take Home
  14. Spectrum of Skillfulness, The
  15. The Skill of Meditation
  16. Skills to Take Home
  17. Happiness as a Skill
  18. Happiness as a Skill
  19. The Skills of Meditation
  20. Bad, Good, & Skillful Intentions
  21. Meditation as a Skill
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