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  2. 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 … 
  3. Book search result icon 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 … 
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  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. Book search result icon 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 … 
  7. Page search result icon 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 … 
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