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- Right Speech… Harsh speech is what you say with the intention of hurting someone’s feelings. Divisive speech is done with the intention of breaking up or preventing friendships. And idle chatter is basically speech without any real clear intention at all, just chattering away for the sake of having something to say. You want to learn how to avoid these forms of speech, and also …
- Faith in the Buddha’s Awakening… As you’re sensitive to it, use your powers of evaluation and observation to see what feels best, what kind of breathing feels gratifying throughout the body. This is a good path to follow because it doesn’t save all of its pleasures to the end. There is pleasure in the meditation. There is also the pleasure of knowing that the path doesn’t …
- The Teacher Inside… Notice when it feels good, notice when it doesn’t, and if it doesn’t, you can change. You can experiment. The same holds true with the mind. Notice: Where are you focusing? Is this a good place to focus? If not, you can move. Be very deliberate in these steps, because when things go well in the meditation, you want to be able …
- Basic Wisdom… He gets you sensitive to feelings of pleasure, the energy of rapture, and the perceptions that go around rapture. Sometimes rapture can be perceived as something really pleasant and positive, and sometimes the same sensation can freak people out. You’ll notice the effect that the perceptions and feelings have on your mind, and then you try to calm that effect down, just as …
- Cornered… how he breathed, how he talked to himself, the images he held in mind, the feelings he could develop through the breath. It was because of these things that he was able to pull himself together and strengthen his heart to the point where, at the end of the three months when the rains retreat was over, he could walk out. It took three …
- The Radiant Mind… And then mental fabrication, perceptions and feelings: the images we hold in mind and the feeling tones we focus on and encourage. Those are shaped by our intentions, too. Usually, we’re awfully ignorant of how we encourage these things. Yet, as the Buddha said, we shape both the present moment and our future lifetimes through these types of fabrication. If we’re ignorant …
- Make Yourself Small… Even when you have negative things to say, you try to couch them in terms that the other person will be able to receive and not feel insulted, not feel belittled, not feel that you have contempt. Psychologists have done studies to show that the worst thing for any kind of relationship is contempt. There’s that story of the videotapes they make of …
- The Middleness of the Path… The map we have is just a sketch, and we have to feel our way. Your willingness to feel your way, to learn from your mistakes, is what develops your wisdom, develops your discernment. Sometimes it’s a little chastening to see how little wisdom and discernment you have, but what are you going to do? You make use of what you’ve got …
- Exploring Possibilities… You feel less burdened by different concerns, long-term or short-term. But it’s important in each case to turn around and look: What did you just learn about how the mind can function? How was it functioning in the past? How about the new way of functioning you’ve suddenly discovered? How is it better? Sometimes it may be a general psychological …
- The Raft of Concepts… If you find that you’re having trouble sticking with the meditation, you can call up those concepts again to remind yourself of why you’re here, to induce a feeling of samvega, a dismay over the pointlessness of life as it’s normally lived; and a feeling of pasada, or confidence that if there’s any way out, this has got to be …
- The Need for a Purpose… We have a purpose, which means, of course, that we have some expectations, that by fashioning a sense of form, feelings, perceptions, thought fabrications, and consciousness out of the raw material given to us by our past karma, we’re looking for something. We have a purpose in mind. This is the nature of our mind. It’s purposeful. When it has no purpose …
- Bringing Daily Life into the Practice… Or your feelings, again, in the context of feelings, not in the context of the world. This is why I said you want to make sure the practice forms the context: because, as you maintain this context, you’re in touch with your refuge. You keep yourself safe, because it helps you see things in terms of their true value—what’s really important …
- A Friend to the World, A Friend to Yourself… It feels good; it feels nourishing. There you’ve got bodily fabrication and verbal fabrication. As you hold images of the breath in mind that help the comfort of the breath to spread around through the body, that’s mental fabrication. See this really as a source of strength. Think of that image of the frontier fortress where you have mindfulness as the gatekeeper …
- Mindfulness the Seamstress… There’s concentration with mindfulness, concentration without mindfulness; concentration where you feel so locked in that you can’t even think, other kinds of concentration where you can think; some kinds of concentration where you’re not even aware of the body at all—the outside world disappears. When these things come up, it’s good to know, “Well, what did I do before …
- Constant, Easeful, Self… So do what you can to get the mind interested in the breath, to make the sensation of the breathing in the body really pleasant, really easeful, something that feels gratifying, something that feels interesting, attractive. There are parts of the body that haven’t been getting good breath energy. They would really like it if you gave them some, and you find that …
- Attention with an Agenda… You apply different perceptions and focus on different feelings for the sake of something. Like right now: You’re trying to get the mind into concentration. So you breathe in a way that will give rise to a sense of comfort for the sake of getting the mind into concentration. You use directed thought and evaluation, again for the sake of getting the mind …
- Metta… It’s very easy for us to feel goodwill for some beings and easy to feel ill will for others. To make goodwill something that we hold for all beings is more than human. The Buddha called it a Brahma-dwelling. It’s not a human being dwelling, it’s a Brahma-dwelling. You’re raising the level of your mind up above the …
- Attention & Intention… It feels good to be here. Everything is settled, balanced inside. You just want to stay. And it is good to stay, up to a certain extent, because the mind does need to rest. It’s like being outside on a cold night like this and lying down on an asphalt road warmed by the Sun during the day. It’s certainly better than …
- How to Think about Death… Can you visualize these things without feeling any remorse, any sadness? What kind of perceptions can you use to protect yourself from feeling remorse, sadness, and dismay? So that you realize, “Oh, this is just the normal way things are,” and you’re not knocked off your balance by thinking about the normal way things are. This morning someone was telling me about an …
- Beyond Natural Suffering… form as a clinging aggregate, feeling, perception, fabrication as a clinging aggregate, consciousness as a clinging aggregate. The usefulness of the synopsis is that you realize that clinging to these five things: That’s suffering. The clinging is the problem. So when you have any experience of suffering, you have to look for the clinging. You look for what it is that you’re …
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