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  2. Book search result icon The Wings to Awakening B. Persistence
     … If a man were to open watercourses leading off from both sides, the current in the middle of the river would be interrupted, diverted, & dispersed. The river would not go far, its current would not be swift, and it would not carry everything with it. In the same way, if a monk has not rid himself of these five hindrances… there is no possibility … 
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  3. Putting Out the Fires
     … They mean freedom—freedom from the way the mind has allowed itself to be enslaved, freedom from the way it’s constantly kept in the dark, freedom from all agitation, freedom from its own clinging. When you taste the sense of well-being that comes from that freedom and you look at whatever pleasure happiness that came out of giving in to your defilements … 
  4. Friends with the Breath
     … Unlike ordinary ways of thinking, which simply entangle you, these ways of thinking disentangle the tangle. Sometimes they cut right through. If you worked at minutely disentangling every single tangle in your mind, there’d never be an end to it. So you use these ways of thinking as knives to cut right through everything, to come right here to the breath, because this … 
  5. Rebirth & Not-Self
     … It might be down in the chest, in the throat, in the middle of the head. Once you’re found your spot, watch over it. As you direct your thoughts to the breath, you can also evaluate it to figure out what feels good, what feels best, what kinds of perceptions are best, what ways of breathing are best, so that you can settle … 
  6. Delight
     … Again, we tend to delight the other way around. We delight in our cravings; we delight in our defilements. We don’t take much delight in working at making the mind more responsible, making it more trustworthy. So you have to learn how to think in terms that counteract that old tendency. It’s good that you’re able to sit here and find … 
  7. Instructions for a New Monk
     … At the end of his period of austerities, he had the wisdom to realize that there must be some other way. He was willing to abandon the pride that develops around the practice of austerities and was able to find the middle way. That was his wisdom. His purity lay in the fact that once he had seen what had to be done, he … 
  8. A Healthy Attitude Toward Happiness
     … down into your bones, down into the middle of the brain, working through any tension that might be lurking there inside. If that feels good, keep it up. If it doesn’t, you have all kinds of other ways of breathing you can test: in-long/out-short, in-short/out-long, in-short/out-short, deep or shallow, heavy or light, fast or … 
  9. Book search result icon The Sublime Attitudes Readings
     … I discerned, as it had come to be, that ‘This is stress… This is the origination of stress… This is the cessation of stress… This is the way leading to the cessation of stress… These are effluents… This is the origination of effluents… This is the cessation of effluents… This is the way leading to the cessation of effluents.’ My heart, thus knowing, thus … 
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  10. The Dhamma Eye
     … He basically taught them the noble eightfold path, and especially explained the first factor of the path, explaining it as a middle way between the two extremes of sensual indulgence and self-torment. And explained the four noble truths as the first factor of the path. It was just after the explanation of those four truths and the duties appropriate to each that Koṇḍañña … 
  11. High-Level Dhamma
     … But it’s not the case that you go straight to those things without having to muck around with your defilements, because the defilements are going to get in the way one way or another. Because our habit is to deal unskillfully with whatever comes up, then when the results of skillful actions come and are nice, we tend to get complacent—an unskillful … 
  12. Hold on for All You’re Worth
     … Once you’ve gotten to the other side, that’s when you let it go—but you don’t let go in the middle of the river. The ajaans have their own way of making the same point. Ajaan Fuang’s image was of a rocket booster. You want to send a capsule to the moon. The capsule can’t go on its own … 
  13. The Lightning Bolt
     … Death can come in that way. And you want to be ready to go in a way where there are no regrets, nothing you hang on to. So these are all ways of generating desire to focus on the practice so that you can take delight in seeing an unskillful quality slough away, and seeing skillful qualities growing. No matter how slowly they may … 
  14. Life Well Lived
     … Then you can turn back to look at the movies again., until you can see through the way the mind deceives itself, the way it deludes itself. In that way, you’re in control. Once you’re in control, it’s a lot easier to live life the way you want it to be lived, to do with your life what you really want … 
  15. The Balance of Power
     … Then move up to the middle of the chest, and the same way around the body in the chest area, then the base of the throat, and the head. You can go down the shoulders to the arms, and then start at the hips, going down the legs to the toes. Work through the body, section by section, making sure that whatever section you … 
  16. Choosing Your Allies
     … Where does that start? How does it spread through the body? What are the energy channels? What are the energy centers? When the in-breath starts coming in, where does it feel like it starts? Around the navel? The middle of the chest? Ask yourself. Look. And when the energy starts to spread, is there anything to get in the way? If there is … 
  17. The Power of Intention
     … What’s interesting about the breath? Well, you can breathe in all kinds of ways. You have all kinds of ways of visualizing the breath to yourself, experiencing the flow of energy through the body. It can actually deal with physical pains and help with some illnesses. As I mentioned the other night, Ajaan Lee’s method of dealing with the breath—thinking of … 
  18. Reclaiming the Breath
     … But you could find others as well—the middle of the head, right where the legs join the torso, or the base of the spine. If you focus your attention there, just stay with that sense of stillness as you breathe in and breathe out. You’ll find that that’ll have a calming effect on the breath. That way, if the breath has … 
  19. The Noble Eightfold Path to the Deathless
     … He started his first sermon by explaining the noble eightfold path as the middle way between self-torture and indulgence in sensual pleasure. And to the very last person he taught, he said that it’s only in a teaching where you have the noble eightfold path that you’re going to find anyone awakened. The eight folds of the path are actually eight … 
  20. Four Determinations
    Your practice doesn’t come together simply because causes and conditions happen to be that way. There’s something inside you that has to want it to happen and to make it happen. You look at the images the Buddha gives for people who do the practice: people who are searching for something; people who are struggling, fighting in battles; people who are being … 
  21. Worldly Equanimity & Its Uses
     … You were actually going to figure out what kind of breathing would lead to rapture, what kind of breathing would lead to pleasure, how to breathe in a way that you’re conscious of the whole body, how you can calm bodily fabrication, how you can breathe in a way that calms mental fabrication, and how to breathe in a way that gladdens the … 
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