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2. Play AudioNurturing Your Inner Adult
    … There’s the breath, which is bodily fabrication; directed thought and evaluation—in other words, the way you talk to yourself about an issue—are verbal fabrications; and then there are perceptions and feelings, which are mental fabrications. Feelings here are not so much emotions. They’re more feeling tones: pleasure, pain, neither-pleasure-nor-pain. Perceptions are the images that underlie the thoughts … 
3. Play AudioThe Four Noble Truths from Within
    … There are thought fabrications, the thoughts you put together, the intentions you have. Then there’s your consciousness of all this. When he uses these terms, he’s talking about right here. And he wants you to look at how you’re creating suffering out of these things right here. The word he uses for the essential part of suffering is *upadana, *which can … 
4. Play AudioThe Best Use of Your Time
    … The mind has is to learn how to put its thoughts aside when it sees that they’re going in the wrong direction. This is one of the basic definitions of wisdom, realizing that things you do and say and think have consequences, and that sometimes things that you like to do or say or think can have unfortunate consequences, and things that you … 
5. Play AudioThe Dhamma Points Inside
    … Sometimes papañca is translated as “mental proliferation,” meaning that your thoughts run rampant all over the place**. When people nowadays talk about having a papañca attack, they mean they got started thinking about a topic and they couldn’t stop. But that’s not what the Buddha’s talking about. **The way he uses the term **papañca, it’s not a question of how … 
6. Play AudioThe Balance of Power
    … In terms of right concentration or what they call jhana, these then develop into directed thought and evaluation. Directed thought is when you keep your thoughts on one topic. And then evaluation is that you check how things are going and making adjustments as you need to. Then the other factor is singleness of preoccupation, means you really are one with the breath. It … 
7. Play AudioThe Language of the Heart (2)
    … But for this group of people—they were from the Ministry of Education—I decided to say something more important, which was that I thought it was miraculous that during all those years I was with him, even though I was a Westerner and he was a Thai, he always treated me as a human being, and our communication was always on a human … 
8. Play AudioTwo Things to Keep in Mind
    … the thoughts you’ve had, the intentions, the various ways you have of looking at things. These are going to shape whether you’re going to suffer because of the world or not. So as we’re meditating, we’re going to back off from the world and get back into the mind to see if we can change a few of these processes … 
9. Play AudioGiving Weight
    … You’ll notice a lot of resistance, because most of the time when we deal with other people, our mind is focused on what their reactions are, what their thoughts may be. But think about it: How much do you know about another person’s thoughts? You’re trying to read all the signs of what they may be thinking, but that’s not … 
10. Play AudioRivers of Craving
     … Sometimes you find that other thoughts come up. In fact, it’s rare that other thoughts don’t come up. One of the skills you want to learn is how not to go with those other thoughts. You’ve made up your mind that the breath is where you really want to stay, and the more you can stick with it, the more you … 
11. Play AudioBeginner’s Mind
     … Or your experience of the in-breath and the out-breath is not quite what you thought it was. And unless you’re willing to look again and look again and look again like this, it’s hard to see anything new. So from that point of view, you need the attitude that you’re coming new to the breath, coming new to the … 
12. Play AudioThe Evening News
     … So instead of letting yourself think about what’s going on someplace else or create thought worlds and get lost in the thought worlds—as if there were really nothing important to look at right here and right now—you have to realize the important thing in life is what’s going on right here right now. There’s always some fabrication and there … 
13. Play AudioPut the Other Person’s Heart in Yours
     … What’s unbearable is your thought, “This is unbearable.” That weighs you down. But if you can focus on what’s good in that person, and you can focus on what’s bearable in the situation, then you’re not going to react out of anger. Now, the Buddha’s not saying that you don’t try to correct people when they do something … 
14. Play AudioWhat’s Real
     … We take these things that we normally do—bodily fabrication, or the breath; verbal fabrication—directed thought and evaluation, i.e., the way you talk to yourself; and then mental fabrication, your feelings and perceptions: We take these things and turn them into our path. When we engage in these fabrications out of ignorance, they’re going to cause suffering. But when we fabricate … 
15. Play AudioPay Careful Attention
     … I read thao nan, and thought it meant that you use the breath syllable only with a long breath, and not with a short one. So that’s what I did. Now that wasn’t too serious a mistake. I was still able to get the mind to settle down that way. But when I went back and read it afterwards, I realized, “Oh … 
16. Play AudioThe Forerunner of All Things
     … Verbal is the way you talk to yourself, what the Buddha calls directed thought and evaluation: You focus on a topic and then you comment on it. And finally there’s mental fabrication, which is composed of feelings and perceptions. Feelings are feelings of pleasure, pain, or neither-pleasure-nor-pain. Perceptions are the images or labels that you apply to things—the messages … 
17. Play AudioSelf-Hatred
     … The unskillful thought patterns that go along with the sense of “you” don’t have to grip you so tightly—because you don’t have to grip them. So remember: As we’re meditating, it’s not just a technique. The technique is important, but the values that go along with the technique are important to learn as well. Often this involves unlearning a … 
18. Play AudioWorthy of Trust
     … Sit down and try to trace through your train of thought, say, for the past five or ten minutes. Often you find it hard to do, because the mind was so thoroughly blacked out, even if it was just for a moment, when it went from one frame of reference to the next. Just as the people on the ship could do all kinds … 
19. Play AudioTo Disturb Your Complacency
     … someone saying that he thought he could detect a subtle goal orientation in some of my writings, as if that were a blemish. Well, look at the Buddha. He was extremely goal-oriented, probably the most goal-oriented person who ever was. He was willing to leave his home, leave his palace, go into the wilderness because he had a goal. When he attained … 
20. Play AudioWilderness Lessons
     … When Ajaan Mun went to caves and mountains and forests, he would give thought to the other beings there. He would chant for them, he would spread good will, so that he was actually bringing something to them. And he’d often have to be careful not to offend them. There are stories of his going into caves where monks who had been there … 
21. Play AudioGuardian Meditations
     … This requires that when you think about this topic, it really is an active form of thinking, not just repeating a word in your head, like buddho, buddho, or whatever, or simply spreading thoughts of goodwill without thinking about what you’re doing. You have to evaluate as well, to see how that particular topic is relevant to the problem in your mind—first … 
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