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- Friends Inside & Out… As for other voices that come up, the other members of the committee, friends, true friends and false friends: You want to sort through them. This practice of recognizing who’s a true friend and who’s not, both internally and externally, covers a lot of the practice right there. We use the principle of appropriate attention to sort these things out. Which friends …
- Strong Through Commitment… This is the problem with dealing with the committee of the mind. If you ask, “Which one in there is you?” they say, “All of us are you. All of us are me.” It’s like that story that Ajaan Lee tells about Ven. Cūla Panthaka. He was a monk who was not all that bright. But, one day, when he was embarrassed by …
- The Duties of Happiness… So when you’ve got the safe space, you can get the whole committee to sit down around the topic of what kind of happiness is genuine. That’s when you can compare the allure of, say, the guilt or the remorse, with the drawbacks that you’ve seen: that at the very least, you weigh yourself down. It’s one thing to recognize …
- Doing the Right Thing… one, not seeing clearly; two, not having the strength even when you do see clearly; and sometimes, you can see clearly and have the strength, but you don’t have the wisdom to deal with the unskillful members of your mind’s committee. Boil it down to those three issues, and the training that the Buddha gives in virtue, concentration, and discernment helps right …
- A Refuge from Death… Think of it as being one voice in the committee of your mind, and let it be in the back corner. Don’t put it on front stage. In other words, you know it’s there, it’s chattering away, but you just decide you’re not going to focus on it. If that doesn’t work, notice how, when you’re thinking, there …
- Looking at Your Life… Think of them as different proposals that are being offered by your inner committee, and you don’t necessarily have to take up the proposals. The thoughts can just go through. They arise and pass away, and because you have a foundation in the body, you can look at the mind and be in a better position to gauge the thoughts: what things are …
- How to Be Happy… We were talking earlier this afternoon about the committee of the mind, the different voices that come up in the mind, and one you really have to watch out for is the one that says, “It doesn’t matter what you do. Go ahead and act on your impulse.” Well, conviction is there to remind you that not all impulses are good and that …
- Training in Commitment & Reflection… Or you can just tell yourself, “The thoughts can go on, but I’m not going to pay them any attention.” This is where it’s useful to think of the mind as being like a committee. You have lots of commentators commenting on what’s going on, what you should and shouldn’t be doing, and you’ve got a ferret out: “Which …
Undaunted
Meditation in Theory
… Here it’s useful to see the mind as a committee, composed of many members with different ideas of how to find happiness. To find the allure, you have to learn to identify not only which member of the committee is urging you to go for the emotion, but also how and why. This step in the process requires a great deal of mental …Show one additional result in this book- Why We Meditate… The why is also important, because it helps keep you with it, and to understand what you’re doing, to understand the point of all this, because you’re going to find different voices in the mind saying, “Why am I doing this? Why don’t I think about that, why don’t I think about this?” Not everybody in this committee of your …
- Determined to Stay with the Breath… But we’re too interested in other things—or at least some members of the committee are interested in other things. They want to go off someplace else. They say, “Well that’s nice. You can stay with your breath a little bit. But then let’s do something else.” It’s like the person who gives up alcohol for a while and says …
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In the Elephant’s Footprint
1 : The Wisdom of Goodness
… You can think of your mind as being like a committee, and that “not-self” here means that there are some members of the committee that you no longer want to identify with. You don’t want to side with them. As for the path, you don’t apply the three perceptions there quite yet. You’re actually trying to develop the path, so …
Bhikkhunī Pāṭimokkha | The Bhikkhunīs’ Code of Discipline
… Should any bhikkhunī knowingly give Acceptance (upasampada) to a woman thief sentenced to death, without having obtained permission from the king or the Community or the (governing) council or the (governing) committee or the (governing) guild — unless the woman is allowable (i.e., already ordained in another sect or with other bhikkhunīs) — this bhikkhunī, also, as soon as she has fallen into the first …- End of results
