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  2. Endurance Through Discernment
     … Bodily is the way you breathe; verbal is the way you talk to yourself; mental is the combination of perceptions you hold in mind, images you hold in mind, or words you hold in mind, together with feelings. And as he says, with the things that give rise to suffering in the mind, either you simply watch them till they go away on their … 
  3. Heedfulness
     … Are you talking to yourself about the breath, or are you talking about something else? How about talking about the breath and about the way your mind is relating to the breath, how your awareness is relating to the breath, and keep that conversation going until you don’t need it anymore as the mind settles down. Ajaan Fuang said it’s like raising … 
  4. Analyzing Anger
     … the state of mind when it’s at normalcy—which is one of the meanings of sīla—the mind is normal in concentration and it sees things clearly. Then apply these five terms to whatever comes up and is creating a disturbance in the mind, always remembering that even though the bullet may be shooting out, you’ve got to keep your attention right … 
  5. As Days & Nights Fly Past
     … We stash away certain ideas, and as they get brought up from the mind to reflect on, each time you put them back in the mind they get changed. After a while your memories get distorted and deformed. So what’s left? A lot of lies the mind is telling itself about the past. They may look like gold, but they’re fake. Years … 
  6. Generating Good Energy
    The mind can be a source of great energy if you train it well. You’ve probably noticed that some people seem to radiate energy—and not just physical energy, there can be a mental, spiritual quality to it, too. Other people are energy sinks: They walk into a room and they suck all the energy out of the air. And it all comes … 
  7. Keep Things Simple
     … The whole purpose of the talk here is not to distract you from the meditation but to act as a fence so that when the mind leaves the breath it runs into the talk and turns back to the breath. If anything in the talk is relevant to what you’re doing in your meditation, it will come right in, echoing through your mind … 
  8. Potentials for Energy
     … For instance, with mindfulness, he says in another passage that the potential for mindfulness consists of virtue and views made straight. In other words, you have right view, and you have behavior that doesn’t put up walls inside. If you break the precepts, there will be times when you realize you’ve harmed this person or that person, or you’ve harmed yourself … 
  9. Freedom & Security
     … So in the midst of all the ups and downs of outside wealth, it’s good to remind ourselves that genuine wealth is a quality the mind. It starts with contentment with external things and moves on from there. This means that it’s in the mind where you find the best place to invest. The more time you invest in training the mind … 
  10. Skillful Desire
     … This way, you can look into the intentions arising in the mind and decide which ones are worth going with and which ones are not. This puts you more in control. Instead of your thoughts running your mind, your mind is in charge of your thoughts. If a thought is insistent, you can figure out what spot in the body the thought is associated … 
  11. Treasures from the East
     … Be very conscious of how your perceptions and feelings shape your mind. And try to use your knowledge of how the body is affected by the breath to calm the body down. Use your knowledge about how the mind is affected by perceptions and feelings to calm the mind down. What kind of perception of the breath makes it comfortable right now? What kind … 
  12. Tuning Your Lute
     … But here in the West, our big problem is the mind.” Well, the big problem is the mind’s obsession with the body. That’s something everybody, West and East, has to deal with. There are times when you say, “I want a higher level of concentration, like the concentration that comes with the breath.” But if your mind’s not capable of doing … 
  13. Stay
     … That’s when you tune the mind in to a more subtle frequency of the breath—in the same way that you’d tune a radio into a more calming station after listening to a lot of hard rock—and you find that the mind can settle-in there. The mind, itself, is equanimous. There’s a sense of ease in the body, and … 
  14. Grounded in the Breath
    When you start meditating, it’s good to survey your body, survey your mind, to see what you’re working with. Start with the body. Take a couple of good long, deep in-and-out breaths and see how the process of breathing feels. Where do you feel in the body? Where is it most prominent? Can you make it comfortable? What would be … 
  15. Stake Out
     … After all, it is a physical property, but of the physical properties, it’s closest to the mind and the most sensitive to what’s going on in the mind. When a thought comes up, you can see that it reverberates both in the body and in the mind. You make up your mind that you’re not going to, as they say in … 
  16. Guardian Meditations
    One of the important skills in meditating is learning how to read your mind to see what it needs, to see where it’s going off balance, and how you can bring it back into balance. That takes time and it takes experience so that you can sense whether there’s too much energy or too little energy. Then the question is what to … 
  17. Coming into the Present
     … If you hold that perception in mind, what does that do to the mind? Again, the perceptions are meant to be used for their impact on the mind. We’re not trying to come up with a total description of the true nature of reality. We’re looking for useful perceptions that help the mind to gain a sense of dispassion, to stop fabricating … 
  18. Actualizing Your Potentials
     … Even though things in the world can get pretty dire, the mind isn’t totally in there in that world of the dire. Your awareness can step back and look at it, realizing that the perceptions and feelings of that world, if you pull them into the mind, can cause you to suffer. But you don’t have to pull them into the mind … 
  19. Four Bases of Success
     … Of course, you’ve got a human mind, not a puppy mind. Human minds are capable of doing a lot more damage than puppies can do. So your mind really needs to be trained. In addition to thinking about the drawbacks of not having a trained mind, think of the advantages of having a trained mind. You can be more self-reliant, more able … 
  20. Skill
     … Always keep this point in mind. All the Buddha’s teachings are centered on this issue of skillfulness and unskillfulness. There is a sutta where Ven. Sariputta says that right view starts with this question of what’s skillful and what’s unskillful, and what in the mind causes skillful behavior, and what in the mind causes unskillful behavior. Then, as he further explains … 
  21. Calm & Insight into Pain
     … He says if you want to develop tranquility and insight, you’ve got to work on getting the mind into deep concentration. The concentration itself is calming, but the ability to understand your mind is what allows you to get into deeper concentration, and that’s the insight. Then, once you’ve got deeper concentration, it develops even more tranquility and calm, and the … 
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