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  2. The Seven Treasures
     … Observing the precepts, developing all sorts of good qualities in the mind: These are all part of the practice. When the Buddha gave his summary of the teachings—“The non-doing of any evil, the full development of skillfulness, the cleansing of the mind: these are the Buddha’s teachings”—all of those things are part of the practice. All those things are part … 
  3. Three Parts of Right View
     … Anything that comes from being put together by causes is going to have an element of stress, but that’s not the stress that weighs down the mind. The mind is weighed down by the stress that comes from craving and clinging. So the four noble truths keep pointing us back into the mind itself. This is where the problems lie, but the solution … 
  4. Worlds Inside & Out
     … How does a thought-world begin? What’s the discussion, what’s the back-and-forth that goes on in the mind before you decide, “Yes, I’m going to go with this”? How do you create tension in the breath energy that allows that thought-world to take hold—its little footpad. How much of the process is intentional? When the mind is … 
  5. Strength of Body, Strength of Mind
     … And where do the things we do come from? They come from the mind. So our actions have value and our mind has a value as a result, because the mind has an influence on the pleasure and pain we meet with in life. As for the issues of the body, those have to be secondary. We don’t want the body to take … 
  6. A Well-Thatched Roof
     … The theme of his meditation was, “The body may be wet but the mind isn’t wet. The body may be wet but the mind isn’t wet.” And staying with that theme, he was able to get the mind to settle down and be still: to stay “not wet” throughout the night. In other words, he didn’t dwell on the theme of … 
  7. A Blameless Happiness
     … You’ve got potentials for pleasure and pain in the mind, skillful and unskillful qualities in the mind. And it’s the way you attend to these things and the way you take delight in some of them: That’s what develops those potentials. The Buddha says it’s like water that you sprinkle on seeds. The seeds are there, and some seeds from … 
  8. Multi-Dimensional Dhamma
     … learning dispassion, learning to free the mind from the ways in which it fetters itself. These two qualities are closely connected. The passion that we feel for the objects of the senses, including objects of the mind, is the fetter that keeps us tied. The objects themselves don’t tie us down. We’re the ones who latch on to them, and our clinging … 
  9. Elemental Normalcy
     … You can use the breath to help give the mind a more pleasant place to stay as you’re sick, as you find that the body’s beginning to fall apart, even as you’re dying. Of course, you’re going to have to leave the breath at the moment of death, but the skills you’ve gained in learning how to get the … 
  10. One Thing Only
     … If you notice that things are inconstant in the mind, especially if the level of stress or ease in the mind is inconstant, look at what you’re doing. When the level of stress goes up, what did you do? When it goes down, what did you do? When things seem to be perfectly still and perfectly at ease, try to maintain that stillness … 
  11. One Thing Clear Through
     … lots of sensual pleasures, good things that come from good qualities of the mind. But those good things are not nearly as good as the qualities of the mind. If you focus on feeding on things outside, even the good things of the heavenly world, the mind deteriorates. You can imagine what it’s like living in a land where there’s nothing but … 
  12. Hobo Mind
     … When they’re allowed to experience a sense of fullness like this, that’s what nourishes them, energizes them, so at the very least, the physical energy in the body is wholesome, helpful, healing, and it can’t help but have a good effect on the mind. So when you can get out of the chatter in the mind, reverting simply to the basic … 
  13. Goodwill for All Beings
     … And if it doesn’t get enough, the mind changes as well. It can start thinking of doing things that it ordinarily wouldn’t think of doing at all. So you owe it to yourself and to the people around you to find a source of happiness for the mind that, to begin with, doesn’t have to feed outside, Ultimately, you want to … 
  14. The Reasonable Path
     … That’s a state in which the mind can really see itself in action. The whole point is seeing how intentions of the mind shape things, and to see precisely where those intentions cause stress, and where that stress is unnecessary. That requires a great deal of balance, a great deal of skill. It’s an art. The whole path is an art. And … 
  15. Abusing Pleasure & Pain
     … It may seem strange to say that we’re ordinarily passionate for our pains, but we do allow the mind to get colored by them, as pain in the body becomes anguish in the mind. If something has the mind upset, causing it anguish, that’s a kind of passion, a kind of coloring of the mind. And it’s not necessary. So we … 
  16. Proactive with Pain
     … Worries may arise, but try to look at them from the point of view of someone outside the mind. It’s just a worry about something you’re going to have to let go. We practice letting go now, while we’re still strong, so that the attachments won’t weigh on the mind as the mind and body get weaker. We want to … 
  17. Metta Meditation
     … And where do the actions come from? They come from the mind, from your intentions. So you have to train your intentions if you want to make sure that the results that are going to come out are the ones you want. Otherwise, the intentions of the mind pull you in all directions unless you train them to pull in one direction, which is … 
  18. In Harmlessness Is Strength
     … This is our motivation for developing the mind, because all our actions do come out of the mind. Many of us come to meditation for rest and respite. But we stay because we see that once the mind has rested, it can be a lot more skillful in dealing with situations around us. It’s just important that you keep in mind the fact … 
  19. Wilderness Wealth
     … You can actually use the perception of fire to warm yourself up, or at least warm the mind up. You can think of the fire element permeating the whole body, not only around the skin, but down into the organs. The potential for warmth exists in everything. Sometimes using that label can accentuate that particular property, so the mind is less concerned about the … 
  20. In Training
     … And its main terms of analysis are basically the processes of the mind. We’d like to produce lots of things in the mind, but we’re not really that sensitive to the process of production in and of itself. But that should get us fascinated. Why is the mind so fascinated with creating things? We create stories as we go through the day … 
  21. In Touch with Your Fabrications
     … They function as the actions in the mind, actions in the body, that are putting things together to create feelings, to create states of becoming. As you learn how to do this with knowledge as you’re getting the mind into concentration, then you can apply that knowledge to other areas of life. And the mind will be a lot healthier and happier as … 
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