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  2. Mindful Judgment
     … You want to give it your full attention. And as soon as you sense anything going wrong, you want to correct it. In other words, the breath, which seemed to be comfortable, with a particular rhythm that felt good, after a while is not so good any more. Well, change it. Or let it change. If you sense the mind wandering off, you bring … 
  3. Harmony Inside & Outside
     … And the other person will appreciate it more, because it shows on the one hand, the you really are paying attention of that other person’s needs, and that the help you’re giving is not simply to make yourself feel good. It’s not hypocritical. It comes from a genuine desire to help. And it creates the kind of harmony that can withstand … 
  4. Fabrication at the Breath
     … this a good time to run away? It may be wired to feel lustful about things, but is this a good time to feel lust? If you haven’t been paying attention, you don’t know how to undo these unskillful emotions. But if you get sensitive to the fact that the breath is a contributing factor here, at the very least you can … 
  5. The Walls of Ignorance
     … Sometimes our ignorance is simply a matter of not pointing our attention in the right direction. Other times it’s more willful. There are certain things we don’t want to see, and so we erect firewalls in our minds. We put up stage sets to hide from ourselves. Part of us knows that we’re doing this, and yet part of the mind … 
  6. Equanimity Isn’t Nibbana
     … Whatever identity you build around a desire will then determine the parts of the world you pay attention to, in terms of whether they help or hinder you from attaining that desire. At the same time, whichever world you’re thinking about right now—whether it’s the world of sports, politics, or your family—will then determine the kind of identity you want … 
  7. Insight from Jhana
     … This is all the work of fabrication, engaged in what’s called appropriate attention: comparing what you’re doing to what you should be doing in terms of the duties of the four noble truths. Then, of course, there’s the consciousness of all these activities. So you’ve got all of the aggregates right here in a very pure form, very immediate form … 
  8. Thinking About Rebirth
     … They think it’s theirs, and of course when they lose their status, they get all upset that nobody pays any attention to them anymore. They don’t have that power anymore. The problem was that they identified with the status when they had it. It was an unskillful way of defining self and an unskillful way of thinking about non-self. When you … 
  9. Developing Discernment
     … It’s through listening and reading that we get the basic ideas of what the practice is all about, and what to pay attention to. Thinking things through allows us to see how they make sense. But the real discernment that actually makes all the difference and can liberate the mind is the one that comes from developing. Developing what? The Buddha lists five … 
  10. Ups & Downs
     … Of course, in the back of your mind there’s going to be the desire to get back to where you were or past where you were, but you can’t make that the focus of your attention right now. Focus on just the next step, just the next step. Break everything down into manageable bits. Here again, learn how to give yourself pep … 
  11. The Sublime Attitudes
     … Dig down deep inside into the area of the mind where intention and attention and perception play against each other, for that’s the point from which all things are born. “We’re related through our actions” The connections we have in life with different people are created by our actions: things that we’ve done together with other people or to other people … 
  12. Basic Breath, Basic Insight
     … You may want to focus most of your attention on one spot. It could be at the tip of the nose, the middle of the head, the middle of the chest, at the abdomen. But at the same time, you want to be aware of the whole body—all through the in-breath, all through the out-. If it’s hard to stay aware … 
  13. Preparing to Die Well
     … Of course a lot of people listening in were wondering, “When am I going to have my vision?” But as he explained, it wasn’t because the vision was something special that he gave it so much attention; it was because it was an obstacle you had to get past. It’s one kind of perception you have to let go of, to calm … 
  14. The Breath All the Way
     … In the second set, the aspect you’re focusing on concerns the feelings created by the way you pay attention to the breath. In the third set, the aspect you’re focusing on is the state of the mind as it tries to stay with the breath. And in the fourth set, you focus on the mental qualities that are involved in developing dispassion … 
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