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  2. Appropriate Attention
     … But remember, we are working on a skill here. It takes time to develop a skill but these are the qualities you need. You want to have the desire to work on the skill, you want to be persistent, stick with it, and be intent on what you’re doing. Be really observant. Then finally use your intelligence to ask questions, bring that property … 
  3. Keep Your Options Open
     … Because a principle that allows for skillfulness is an important principle to hold to. You can develop skills, and you will develop as a person. The more skills you have, if they really are skillful, then the more options you open for yourself. A view of causality that doesn’t allow for the development of skills closes all the doors. That’s why the … 
  4. The Path of Mistakes
     … They, in and of themselves, are not skillful or unskillful, but the way you perceive them and the thoughts you build around them — those can be skillful and unskillful.” So learn how to step back. In this way you use your understanding of fabrication to deconstruct unskillful emotions, unskillful mind states, and then to develop skillful emotions and skillful mind states in their place … 
  5. Just Rightness
     … That’s where you hold to the right questions to keep in mind all the time: “What am I doing that’s unskillful? What am I doing that’s skillful? What makes it unskillful? What makes a skillful? What can I do to become more skillful? What actions would be more skillful?” It’s a question of balance, keeping the mind balanced right here … 
  6. The Skill of the Breath
  7. The Skill of Not Suffering
  8. The Skills of a Hunter
  9. Equanimity as a Skill (outdoors)
  10. The Skill of True Happiness
  11. A Refuge in Skillful Action
  12. Use Your Defilements
     … This is a skill that we’re working on, and it’s in the process of developing these skills and the path that we refine the mind. We get to recognize which defilements are useful, which ones are not. Like that desire to get the mind to settle down: If you focus on the results you want, you’re not going to get them … 
  13. Intro to the Skill of Meditation
  14. For the Sake of the Skill
  15. Things Don’t Have to Be This Way
     … There are skills you can develop. And so—instead of just being frustrated with the fact that your old skills are not working, and are coming to a dead end—he says, “Try these new skills. They work. Pull on the udder of the cow and you’ll get the milk you want.” The skills are very simple. They require persistence. This is where … 
  16. Protecting the Mind from Itself
     … He can’t do the work for us, because after all, we’re suffering from our own lack of skill, and nobody else can give us their skill. But the Buddha does what the Buddha can. In other words, he teaches us the basic principles for how to develop skill. As we follow those principles, we find that we become much more observant on … 
  17. Abandoning Effluents (1)
     … delight in developing skillful qualities, delight in abandoning unskillful qualities, and tracking down more and more the subtleties of what may seem to be skillful to begin with, but may have some lack of skill lurking inside. When you’re focused on these issues, then issues of becoming—your identity in the world—and ignorance—ignorance of the four noble truths—get weakened because … 
  18. The Advantages of Many Selves
     … He had his defilements, but he was able to take the skillful identities he had inside, the skillful desires, the skillful strategies he’d already mastered, and develop them. So when he was able to find the end of suffering, it wasn’t just news about him. It was news about the capability of human action, the possibilities of human action. You’re a … 
  19. Knowing & Acting
     … Approach it as a skill. Of course, in the beginning as with any skill, it’s like following a recipe. You follow what’s in the book and you do what you’re told to do several times until you begin to get more of an intuitive feel for what you’re doing. This is where your alertness and your understanding of what you … 
  20. Facing Danger & Hardship
     … And so, you should make a resolve, “I’m going to follow the Buddha’s teachings.” And Saripuuta says you also try to develop what he called skillful equanimity. Notice he places a condition on it: It has to be skillful. Not all equanimity is skillful. Indifference is not skillful; just giving up is not skillful, saying, “Well, I’ll just have to accept … 
  21. Commit, Reflect, Discern
     … So you approach all your actions as a skill. This relates to the Buddha’s teachings on avijjā, or ignorance. As he said, this is the factor that can turn anything in the mind into a source of suffering. The word avijjā doesn’t mean just not knowing about things. It also means a lack of skill. You’re not skilled in the duties … 
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