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  1. The Second Noble Truth
     … Then, third, there’s the craving for no becoming. That’s the paradoxical one. You would think that the craving for no becoming would be something that would put an end to becoming, but actually to put an end to becoming directly, you have to take on an identity as the destroyer of becoming. That becomes your new identity, with a new becoming around … 
  2. A Becoming Critic
    Pali has the word bhava, which means becoming, and the word bhāva, which means an emotional state. They’re very close, not only in spelling but also in meaning. Bhava, becoming, is a sense of your identity in a particular world of experience. These worlds can include the world outside—but when you think about it, the world outside is actually many different worlds … 
  3. As They’ve Come to Be
    The Buddha said we suffer from the craving that leads to becoming. So, that’s what we have to focus on: What is becoming? What is that craving? And how do we get out of that situation? He says it’s a special problem because the craving that leads to becoming includes craving for sensuality, craving for becoming—which makes sense—and then also … 
  4. Make the Most of What You’ve Got
     … On the other hand, you’re in a good position to see other kinds of becoming come up in the mind. And what is becoming? It operates on several levels. The closest to us is the fact that we’ve got this body here. This is something that has become out of our past karma. There are also states of becoming in the mind … 
  5. The Noble Truth about Craving
     … When it takes on a state of becoming, it starts out with a desire. At first, the desire is just a little tiny thing. You say, “Wouldn’t it be nice if x?” Then you decide to go for it. And in the course of going for x, you change. You become a different person. The world around you becomes a different world. This … 
  6. Becomings
     … So you’ve got a state of becoming right here. You want to maintain this one, because when you set up in your mind that you’re going to maintain a particular state of becoming, that’s when you see the process of becoming a lot more clearly. When another becoming appears in the mind, you can recognize it: “Okay, this is beyond the … 
  7. Right View
     … toward becoming or non-becoming. In one sense we’re in a double bind; the desire to get rid of becoming itself is a way of creating becoming—but this is where the Buddha’s genius as a strategist comes in. He’s says that you go beyond becoming not by destroying becoming but by learning how to create new forms of becoming that … 
  8. Enlarge Your Mind
     … There’s a cryptic statement in the Canon that says, with regard to becoming, that by whatever means you construe it, it becomes otherwise than that. In other words, whatever you take as the raw material for your state of becoming, as soon as you’re created a state of becoming from that, the raw materials have already changed. Things change that fast. So … 
  9. Skillful Selfing
     … He saw that the bigger becomings come from the little becomings. But he saw that in all cases of becoming there’s going to be suffering. So the purpose of the path is to learn how to get to the point where you don’t need to create becomings anymore, by getting to a place where there’s no need for desire. It’s … 
  10. Heeding the Deva Messengers
     … Right now we’re trying to create a state of becoming that’s called concentration. That’s the most skillful state of becoming you can develop, and that, too, is a strength, because it enables you to see the processes of the mind and yet be quiet and still at the same time. You’re creating good becomings and you’re clear about the … 
  11. What Am I Becoming?
    What Am I Becoming? December 31, 2019 Here we are at the end of the year. As you meditate, you should remember that and forget it. You forget it in the sense that the practice itself is akaliko, timeless. The principles are the same whether it’s the beginning of the year, the end of the year, or the middle of the year. You … 
  12. Seeds of Becoming
     … That’s how small states of being and becoming in the mind build up eventually into large ones. When you leave this life, and everything in this state of becoming begins to come rushing in at you and you’ve got to get out of the way, the mind will naturally try to create another state of becoming. It’ll go for another state … 
  13. Wearing the Breath
     … In fact, the Buddha said, seeing the stages leading up to that is the way of getting round the dilemma of the fact that suffering is caused by the kinds of craving that lead to becoming. One of the kinds of craving that leads to becoming is craving for becoming itself, while another one is craving for non-becoming. In other words, you have … 
  14. Becoming Consummate
    The Buddha’s last words to his followers before he was totally unbound were to become consummate through heedfulness. Becoming consummate was something he talked about all through his teaching career: being consummate in your virtue, being consummate in your views, consummate in knowledge and conduct. In other words, these areas were skills that should be mastered. The qualities of the noble ones fall … 
  15. Mindfulness Gets Intimate
     … He says that we suffer because of the type of craving that leads to becoming. Becoming is a sense of your identity in a world of experience. But he also warned that one of the types of craving leading to becoming is craving for non-becoming. In other words, hoping to destroy what you’ve got here in terms of your identity in this … 
  16. Noble Wealth
     … But the problem is that not only does craving for becoming cause becoming, but craving for non-becoming—i.e., destroying the becomings already there—that leads to more becoming, too. The way out of this dilemma is to look for the fabrications that you use to create states of becoming and develop dispassion for them before they become states of becoming. That way … 
  17. The Origination of Suffering
     … You tend to like the states of becoming you take on—or then you decide you don’t like them. That’s the third kind of craving that can cause suffering: craving for non-becoming. That leads to more becoming because, as you decide you want to see this sense of self in this world be destroyed, you’re still thinking in terms of … 
  18. Mindfulness the Gatekeeper
     … All that together constitutes a state of becoming. Usually, when we think of becoming, we think about levels of becoming up in heaven or down in hell: in other words, worlds outside. And there is that level of becoming. We’re on the human level right now. But those outside becomings come from the becomings in the mind. You have a picture of something … 
  19. Dependent Co-arising Right Now
     … We’ve got the added problem that you would think that craving for non-becoming would help get rid of becoming, but becoming is basically taking an identity in a world of experience, and the craving for non-becoming thinks in terms of identities and worlds of experience. Even though it wants to destroy them, it ends up dealing in terms of becoming and … 
  20. Transparent Becoming
    Transparent Becoming December 8, 2007 The mind is used to wandering around. That’s what the word samsara means. It’s not a place; it’s an activity. It’s something you do. For most of us, it’s a matter of going from one desire to another desire. Then either you get what you want and then you say, “Okay, enough of that … 
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