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  2. Goodness
     … This is why we have so many committee members in the mind. Each has his or her own idea, which has or hasn’t been tested, and is all too happy to recommend it, whether or not it’s been tested—and with very little discussion about what the standards would be to judge as to whether something’s truly happy or truly good … 
  3. Taking Apart Suffering
     … A good way to approach it is to assume that the mind is like a committee. There’s not just one person in there talking or observing, or just one mood in there simmering away. There are lots of different potential moods, lots of different observers. Even though the mind may tend to go in a certain direction to identify with a particular mood … 
  4. Your Higher Power
     … And you’ve got other members of your committee that really do wish for your true well-being. This is one of the ironies of the divided mind or the divided self. There’s a part of the mind that doesn’t really care about long-term happiness or well-being. All it wants is instant gratification. And it’s also developed a lack … 
  5. Calm
     … Are there any voices in the mind that are not inclined to ease? Well, remind yourself—and here’s another perception—that your mind is like a committee. There are lots of different people in there, and you don’t have to listen to every voice that speaks up in the mind. Right now, listen to the voices that are in line with the … 
  6. Inner Authorities
     … It’s in this way that you can straighten out your inner committee. After all, we do have to have an inner critic. You want to make it one, and make sure that it’s on the side of the Dhamma. The Buddha said the self should be its own prosecutor. This is what he meant: You need to be your own inner critic … 
  7. Book search result icon An Unentangled Knowing Introduction
     … She passed away quietly in 1978 after entrusting the center to a committee she appointed from among its members. Her younger sister, Upāsikā Wan, who up to that point had played a major role as supporter and facilitator for the center, joined the community within a few months of Upāsikā Kee’s death and soon became its leader, a position she held until her … 
  8. Equanimity & Exertion
     … This is what I want.” You’ll find that it has lots of friends in the committee of your mind who will argue for it. That kind of cause of suffering, the Buddha said, goes away only when you do what he calls “exerting a fabrication.” The word “fabrication,” sankhara, here, means that you work with intentions and try to figure the cause out … 
  9. Heedfulness
     … And you do want to get the other members of the committee in your mind to listen to what it has to say. It’s like teachers in school. There are some teachers who are really friendly but they don’t really teach us all that much. They let us have a good time, and when you come away from the class you’re … 
  10. The Gatekeeper’s Duties
     … If you really work at maintaining your concentration, trying to get it to settle in more deeply, you’re going to run into other aspects of the mind, because the mind is like a committee. When you decided to sit down and meditate just now, it wasn’t the case that the whole mind went along. Enough of the mind went along to get … 
  11. Training Your Cynical Voices
     … So there’s nothing superhuman about what you’re doing here—simply that you’ve got to learn how to train those committee members and turn the cynical or skeptical voices on your greed, aversion, and delusion. At the same time, learn how to bring in some more confidence, conviction in this path. For most of us, it’s not a path that we … 
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  12. Verbal Fabrication
     … You have a whole committee in there, so you have talk to them, to convince them that this is a good place to stay. You can do part of that by making the breath comfortable, but that’s not going to be enough. You have to keep reminding yourself of why it’s important to train the mind: We all look for happiness, and … 
  13. Feeding Off the Future
     … Don’t give in to the temptation to straighten out those members of the committee, because they’ll pull you in. Like the tar trap that the Buddha talked about: When they used to catch monkeys, they put tar on a stump. The monkey comes up and sees something soft and black, wants to figure out what it is. So he touches it with … 
  14. Book search result icon Good Heart, Good Mind Virtue
     … How do I prepare so that I don’t believe the committee member in my mind who says that I’m a bad person? A: One of the reasons why we meditate is so that we’ll be alert at the moment of death. Then remember that any voice that comes into the mind is just one member of the committee, and as a … 
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  15. It’s All in What You’re Doing
     … What was I keeping in mind? Whose voice was I remembering? This is when I began to realize that the mind was a committee. Lots of different people in there. My mother was in there. My father was in there. Teachers and school friends from my past. TV, radio, magazines, books. All sloshing around in there. They all seemed very authoritative and they were … 
  16. Time to Heal
     … You can go and sit under a tree, be by yourself with nothing but the wind and the leaves and the few bugs here and there, but you find you have a whole committee sitting there with you—all these different voices saying, “Well, now we’ve got all this free time, we can think about this, we can talk about that.” And they … 
  17. Don’t Be Afraid of Mistakes
    When we talk about the committee of the mind, or when Ajaan Lee talks about all the various consciousnesses that may be hovering around your body, or when the Buddha talks about your thoughts being not-self, the purpose is to get some distance from those thoughts. But it doesn’t mean you have to distrust them. It simply means that you want to … 
  18. Training in Happiness
     … Even though part of you may say, “Gee, I don’t like this,” remember that the mind is like a committee. There are lots of voices in there. You don’t have to trust every voice that comes up. You have to look at and see: Is this a reliable voice? Who’s speaking in here? Is it greed speaking? Is it laziness speaking … 
  19. Addictive Thinking
     … You can train your own mind.” This is where the image of the mind as a committee is useful, because different parts of the mind are more skillful than others. You take the skillful parts and you basically make them stronger. Everything the Buddha taught was out of pure compassion. So that’s the voice you want to have in your mind, along with … 
  20. Basic Intro
     … You begin to see that the mind is like a committee, with lots of different ideas, lots of different voices in here. For the time being, you’ve got to learn how to listen to one voice, the voice that reminds you to stay with the breath. The best use of your time right now is to develop these good qualities in the mind … 
  21. Bad Friends Inside
     … If you think of the mind as a committee, there are lots of different voices in there, lots of different persons almost. And a lot of our problem is we don’t know who to choose as our friends inside. Sometimes we take greed as our friend, sometimes lust, sometimes anger, sometimes fear. We think these things can be relied upon, these things can … 
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