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  2. Basics
     … There’s so much pressure to succeed in the material area that we don’t want to hear about standards for success in the area of the Dhamma. But if you’re serious about putting an end to suffering, the issue of success is something you can’t avoid. When you approach the meditation skillfully, you get results. Your efforts have succeeded. They’re … 
  3. How & Why We Meditate
     … This is why we have the chants on the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha prior to the meditation: to remind ourselves that this path we’re following here is not a brand new path. It’s not something we just recently cooked up. In fact, the Buddha himself said he didn’t invent the path. He discovered an old path. There had been … 
  4. Basic Breath, Basic Insight
     … As the Buddha said, there are four noble dhammas. The first is virtue, where you learn how to behave in a way where you’re not harming anybody. Then there’s concentration, where you get the mind centered. There’s discernment, when you begin to see what’s going on in the mind and understand why the mind is creating suffering and also what … 
  5. A Good Buddhist Ego
     … The nuns are watching this and they say, “Wow! This is the most effective Dhamma talk we’ve ever seen.” He gets carried away, so he keeps on displaying his powers until after sunset. Then he dismisses them. They have to go back to the nunnery in the town. But the town gates back in those days would be closed at sunset. There would … 
  6. The Sport of Wise People
     … Building a Home for the Mind November 25, 2015 The texts often talk about concentration as being a home for the mind—vihara-dhamma—the place where the mind can settle in. Before you can settle in, though, you have to build a house. And as Ajaan Lee said, the work in building this house lies in the directed thought and evaluation. You find … 
  7. Skillful Effort
     … The other is relaxing into the present, into the Dhamma that’s already here. Now, if those were the only two choices, it’s obvious which would be the wiser choice. Everyone likes the idea of relaxing. It seems to be built into American culture. I was reading a biography of William James recently. It turns out that there was a movement during his … 
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