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  2. Trustworthy Intentions
     … It’s a learning process we’re involved here, learning what we’re bringing to the present moment that’s shaping it, and what we’re doing in ignorance that’s causing suffering, what we’re bringing in ignorance that turns the present moment into a moment of suffering. This way, as you get clearer and clearer on what you bring, learning how to … 
  3. A Healthy Body Image
     … But you do have to be intelligent enough to realize that there’s suffering and it’s a big problem and here’s a path to put an end to suffering. And it’s rare that you can find such a path, so you want to make the most of it. All the great ajaans were people who had enough wisdom to realize that … 
  4. On Your Own
     … The only thing that’s really ordering us around is the fact that there is suffering and stress in our lives, and we’ve recognized that we really want to get rid of it, want to get beyond it. That’s the only thing that’s really forcing us. But what this also means is that when we’re out on our own outside … 
  5. Centered in the Body
     … Luang Puu Dune also talks about how the mind, flowing out, is the cause of suffering. So you want to be able to see the flow. Notice in that image that there’s only one person on one side to stand for external objects, but there’s a whole crowd on the other side. You’ve got lots and lots of hungers and thirsts … 
  6. What to Tolerate, What Not
     … But you don’t have to suffer from them. You can learn how to process them, you can learn how to handle them in such a way that even though there may be some pain or some unpleasantness, deep down inside the mind doesn’t have to suffer. That’s an important skill. It’s the skill that the Buddha teaches. As he says … 
  7. Harmless & Clearheaded
     … It’s meant to remind you that simply by being alive and having this body requires food, clothing, medicine, shelter—things that involve suffering for somebody. Even if you eat vegetarian food, the farmers, the people who transport the food suffer in getting it to you. It’s not easy work keeping people fed. The same goes for clothing and shelter and medicine. There … 
  8. The Advantages of Many Selves
     … I don’t know how many times you hear it said that you shouldn’t have a sense of you doing the path, and that if you get rid of your sense of you, then there’d be no suffering. Impermanence and inconstancy would hold no dangers, because there’d be nothing there that you’d identify with, so things could change any way … 
  9. Exercising Discernment
     … The craving for that kind of activity is a cause for suffering. The craving for no becoming means basically that you get a particular state and you don’t want it to change. You want to clamp down on everything just as it is. That’s a kind of craving too, and it can cause suffering as well. So those are the cravings the … 
  10. Pleasing to the Noble Ones
     … That’s when you’re going to be able to see things you never saw before—things that can make a real difference in how much suffering you’re creating and how much suffering you can stop. So settle in right here. The show has been showing itself for a long time, but as the Buddha said, you don’t have to know the … 
  11. A Sense of Yourself
     … How much conviction do you have in the Teaching? How much conviction do you have in this path that leads to the end of suffering? If you have trouble getting yourself to take on the path— or to get back on the path if you’ve fallen off—how can you talk to yourself to remind yourself that you do want to put an … 
  12. The Five Hindrances
     … We don’t see what suffering they’re causing. We just ride with them. The way to starve them is to develop appropriate attention. Look at these mind states simply as that—as mind states, part of a chain of cause and effect. See where these chains of cause and effect cause harm and suffering. Keep looking in this way to the point where … 
  13. Success by Approximation
     … And unlike the relationship between craving and suffering, the path isn’t the cause or the origination of the goal. It simply leads you there. These points are important to keep in mind because all too often there’s a tendency to think that you can get to awakening by cloning it. But awakening isn’t something you can clone. Instead, the Buddha has … 
  14. Active Truth
     … You become more and more skillful, create less and less suffering for yourself and others. That’s how the Buddha proves the principle of action, proves the principle of karma. He doesn’t cite his own memories of previous lifetimes or proof that someone can have a consciousness that goes from one life to the next and then remember what had happened in previous … 
  15. Poison Your Fantasies
     … And the question is, why do that when you create a lot of suffering for yourself? This means that you have to look into the role that you’re playing as you create these things—and realize that you’re implicated in the suffering, that this dialogue in the mind is something you’ve got to watch out for. That’s a lot of … 
  16. Pure Action
     … It’s when you can see that you can breathe in a different way, you can act in a different way, speak in a different way, think in a different way, and you suffer a lot less, and the people around you suffer a lot less: That’s when the teachings will have their impact. That’s when they really can make a difference … 
  17. Freedom from Fear
     … As for right view, you realize that what causes the mind to suffer is its own actions. So again, if you hold on to right view, it’s not something that anyone else can take away from you. You’re not hoping to depend on somebody else to make you happy or for things to be a certain way. You try to develop the … 
  18. At Ease with the Breath
     … What causes suffering? What is a path to the end of suffering? You can explain this in terms of definitions and formal doctrine, and sometimes that makes it intimidating. But if you get right down to the whole question of how you like to breathe, then go ahead and breathe that way. After a while, you find that you don’t like breathing in … 
  19. Chewed Up by Your Food
     … He talks about how suffering boils down to the five clinging-aggregates. You’ve got the form clinging-aggregate, the feeling clinging-aggregate, the perception clinging-aggregate, fabrications and consciousness clinging-aggregates. The word for “clinging,” upadana, can also mean sustenance. We try to feed off of these things. Particularly, we try to feed off the pleasure that these things have to offer. We … 
  20. The Power of Perception
     … He did talk, though, about how to understand suffering so that you can put an end to it. And he offered a training: That’s what we’re doing: It’s a training. Essentially, the training is our ability to learn how to stick with the perception of breath, keep that label of breath in mind, keep the breath going comfortably, in all kinds … 
  21. Alone at Death, but Not Lonely
     … So we focus on the breath, we focus on our mind in the present moment, because this is the starting point of so much of our suffering. We want to understand why: what’s causing us to act in ways in the present moment that are causing suffering now and on into the future. After all, it’s our intentions that shape our life … 
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