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2. Play AudioFabrication at the Breath
    … There’s the way the energy flows in your body when you’re angry, as opposed to the way it flows when you’re feeling lust, or how it flows when you’re feeling fear. There are the thoughts that contribute to that particular emotion. The way you evaluate the situation around you: That’s contributing to your emotion. And the feelings and perceptions … 
3. Karma Q & A Basic Principles
    … Sometimes it lands on its base, sometimes on its tip, sometimes smack on its middle. We’re slippery characters, changing roles all the time [§41]. 20. As a summary, what would be a good way to teach children some healthy lessons about kamma? You might try the lessons the Buddha gave to his own son, Rāhula [§42]. First he taught Rāhula how important it … 
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4. Play AudioThe Power to Transcend Suffering
    … Learn to open your mind to other ways of conceiving and perceiving the breath. Ajaan Lee talks about the breath coming in and out of the back of the skull, in and out the middle of the chest, lots of different spots in the body. Allow yourself to conceive the breath in that way and see what happens to your experience of breathing as … 
5. Play AudioThe Four Bases of Success
    … That required an act of imagination, not only in memory but also in coming up with that particular memory and deciding that he wanted to try that approach next—realizing that it was the middle way between two extremes. He’d been thinking only in extremes. And all too often, when we’re faced with issues coming up in the meditation, we tend to … 
6. Play AudioCustoms of the Noble Ones
    … So think your way to settling down. Take a couple of good, long, deep in-and-out breaths and notice where you feel the breathing. Where it seems to be most prominent, focus there. And allow your attention to stay there all the way through the in-breath, all the way though the out. This part of the meditation requires training because the mind … 
7. The Paradox of Becoming Introduction
    … If you’re a painter, a skier, and a miner, you will see the same mountain in different ways depending on what you want from it at any given moment—beauty, adventure, or wealth. Even if you stay focused on nothing but the desire to paint, the beauty you want from the mountain will change with time—sometimes over years, sometimes from one moment … 
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8. Merit Dana: Giving
    … That’s the way it is. The donor does not go without reward.” “Magnificent, Master Gotama! Magnificent! Just as if he were to place upright what was overturned, to reveal what was hidden, to show the way to one who was lost, or to carry a lamp into the dark so that those with eyes could see forms, in the same way has Master … 
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9. Play AudioLessons in Fabrication
    … This is one of the ways in which the meditation gets up off the cushion and actually helps with your life. Remember the word for meditation in Pali is bhāvanā. It means to develop. Whatever good qualities you can develop in the mind, it’s all part of meditation. Whether you’re sitting here with your eyes closed, or in the middle of an … 
10. Skill in Questions Chapter 4: Analytical Answers
     … Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way realized by the Tathāgata—producing vision, producing knowledge—leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding. “And which is the middle way realized by the Tathāgata that—producing vision, producing knowledge—leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding? Precisely this noble eightfold path: right view, right resolve, right speech … 
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11. Play AudioSlowing Down to Look
     … We’re caught in the middle. Remember what we were saying last night about people who have an intuitive response to a situation, sometimes very quick, and often the situation requires a quick response. Something comes up in your life and you can’t say, “noting, noting, noting.” You’ve got to do something right away. The question is: How do you know when … 
12. The Shape of Suffering Chapter One
     … right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. “And when a disciple of the noble ones discerns the requisite condition in this way, discerns the origination of the requisite condition in this way, discerns the cessation of the requisite condition in this way, discerns the way of practice leading to the cessation of the condition in … 
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13. The Buddha’s Teachings The Buddha’s Teachings
     … The path to the cessation of suffering is also called the Middle Way because it avoids two extremes: (1) indulgence in the pleasures of sensuality and (2) devotion to the pain of self-torment. Yet this does not mean that the path pursues a course of middling pleasures and middling pains. Instead, it treats the pleasure of concentration, along with insight into the pain … 
14. A Trojan Horse
     … This is the second ground on which he can be praised.” [emphasis added] — SN 42:12 The last example shows that ascetic practices, in and of themselves, are not necessarily contrary to the middle way. It is possible to follow them all the way to the noble attainments. As for Ven. Mahā Kassapa’s refusal to give up his practices: Anālayo is here clearly … 
15. The Question of Bhikkhunī Ordination A Trojan Horse:
     … This is the second ground on which he can be praised.” [emphasis added] — SN 42:12 The last example shows that ascetic practices, in and of themselves, are not necessarily contrary to the middle way. It is possible to follow them all the way to the noble attainments. As for Ven. Mahā Kassapa’s refusal to give up his practices: Anālayo is here clearly … 
16. MvVIII: cīvarakkhandhako
     … They hung (the cloth) by the middle. The dye dripped down both sides. bhagavato etamatthaṁ ārocesuṁ. They reported the matter to the Blessed One. anujānāmi bhikkhave kaṇṇe bandhitunti. “Monks, I allow that it (the cloth) be tied at the corners.” kaṇṇo jīrati. The corners got worn. bhagavato etamatthaṁ ārocesuṁ. They reported the matter to the Blessed One. anujānāmi bhikkhave kaṇṇasuttakanti. “Monks, I allow a … 
17. Play AudioSkillful Effort
     … Now, when he said play, he didn’t mean playing around in a desultory way. It’s more like the way, say, Michael Jordan would play basketball. In other words, you keep doing it, keep trying to figure out new ways of tackling problems but at the same time enjoying what you’re doing, making a game out of it. This relates particularly to … 
18. An Unentangled Knowing Part III : Going Against the Flow
     … Find the Middle Way that’s just right. While you’re practicing in this way, you’ll be able to observe what the mind is like when it has mindfulness and discernment in charge, and then you make the effort to maintain that state and keep it constant. That’s when the mind will have the opportunity to stop and be still, to be … 
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19. Mindfulness of Breathing
     … the nose, the middle of the head, the base of the throat, the tip of the breastbone, above the navel—but there are other possible spots as well. Focus attention on wherever the breath seems to originate, and think of breath energy radiating from that spot. If there are any feelings of tension that seem to get in the way of that radiating energy … 
20. Come & See Entering for the Rains
     … But nowadays, we don’t do things that way. We can meditate in all our activities, in every posture. That’s the way it is. I want you to understand our practice of virtue. We gain happiness and prosperity because of virtue. Virtue means normalcy in body, normalcy in mind. It’s a matter of abandoning harm, refraining from harm, great and small, through … 
21. Selves & Not-self Readings on Self & Not-self
     … But in the past I was also chewed up by form in the same way I am now being chewed up by present form. And if I delight in future form, then in the future I will be chewed up by form in the same way I am now being chewed up by present form.’ Having reflected in this way, he becomes indifferent to … 
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