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  2. The First Noble Truth
     … We latch onto things like form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness as being us or ours. Or we latch onto the idea that they have to be this way or that way. And not only do we latch on. We feed on these things. That’s actually one of the meanings of the word for clinging, upadana: feeding. We try to get our nourishment … 
  3. Abusing Pleasure & Pain
     … Keep your awareness, your perception of your awareness, in a position of priority. When you do this, you’re learning how to use both pleasure and pain in the right way. You’re not abusing the pleasure. You’re not abusing the pain. You’re gaining experience in developing the duties of the four noble truths. You’re developing the path, and you’re … 
  4. The Karma of Meditation
     … Why does that first arrow get you to grab your bow and grab your quiver and pull out all the arrows you can and then shoot yourself? Why do you do that? What is it about that first pain that gets you all worked up? It’s because you have some strange perceptions around it. Look into those. Ajaan Maha Boowa has a lot … 
  5. Complexities of the Mind
     … Well, why is that? You dig a little bit deeper, and you get into its perceptions, the way it labels things: “This is beautiful. This is attractive. This is enticing. I like feeling aroused.” Those kinds of thoughts. You can learn how to question those. This brings everything back into the mind. So you can’t expect one technique, or one approach to do … 
  6. No Happiness Other than Peace
     … And even though it’s immediately present, and the possibility of reaching it is theoretically available at any moment in time, our powers of perception are not up to it, our skills are not skillful enough, not subtle enough. So we have to raise the subtlety of our mind as we develop these skills until finally we reach the level where we can have … 
  7. The Need for Right View
     … It also reminds you that one of the reasons you’re meditating is so that you can understand your intentions, to see them more clearly, because they’re bound up in a real tangle of perceptions and views. The interaction of a lot of different mental events in the mind goes into a decision to do something. That creates the kamma. And it’s … 
  8. Ups & Downs
     … Go back to the beginning and try to be very careful, very perceptive, very precise, in how you focus on the breath. Don’t try to take on too much. Ajaan Lee gives the example of someone who’s planting a new orchard. It’s not a good idea, he says, to clear all the land you’ve got and plant all the land … 
  9. Dealing with Limitations
     … As the Buddha said, when you become a being, you identify with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, or consciousness of particular kinds. And whatever way you identify yourself, that’s how you limit yourself. You gain certain powers by bringing those things under your control, but you also take on certain limitations. Those limitations may not be getting in the way of the particular task … 
  10. Anger
     … The anger seemed to consume the mind, but that’s just because it narrowed your perception of the mind’s full range. So as you open things up like this, you can help weaken the anger, weaken the hold of the anger on your mind. When you develop a larger perspective, you can step back and see what really should be done. “What’s … 
  11. Slowing Down to Look
     … This enables you to deal not so much in abstractions, but in direct perceptions of what’s going on. One of the things you have to watch out for, as you practice, is dealing in huge abstractions—such as the question of whether Buddhism is in favor of desire or is it against desire? And the answer well, it’s in favor of skillful … 
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