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2. 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 … 
3. 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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4. 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 … 
5. 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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6. 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 … 
7. 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 … 
8. 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 … 
9. 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 … 
10. 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 … 
11. 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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12. 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 … 
13. 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 … 
14. 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 … 
15. Recognizing the Dhamma Dispassion
     … Resembling a ball of sealing wax, set in a hollow, with a bubble in the middle and bathed with tears, eye secretions are born there too: The parts of the eye are rolled all together in various ways.’ Plucking out her lovely eye, with mind unattached she felt no regret. ‘Here, take this eye. It’s yours.’ Straightaway she gave it to him. Straightaway … 
16. MvI: mahākhandhako
     … For what reason? (Thinking,) “May it not become creased in the middle.” If (the corners) were made even, then when folded up it would have a crease in the middle. Being creased constantly, it would become weak. That is said to be the purpose of the prohibition. So in whatever way it is not creased tomorrow in the place it is creased today, in … 
17. MvVI: bhesajjakkhandhako
     … Tathāgatas ask in a way that is connected to the goal /welfare, not in a way unconnected to the goal/welfare. Tathāgatas have cut off the bridge in reference to things that are unconnected to the goal/welfare. dvīhākārehi buddhā bhagavanto bhikkhū paṭipucchanti dhammaṁ vā desessāma sāvakānaṁ vā sikkhāpadaṁ paññāpessāmāti. Buddhas, Blessed Ones, cross-question monks for two reasons: (thinking,) “I will teach the … 
18. Worlds & Their Cessation : The Buddha’s Strategic View of the Cosmos
     … In terms of habits and practices, each side can be very insistent that the way they draw inferences about the world is “scientific”—as they define the term—and that they know for a fact what ways of behavior are actually valid in the context of their worlds. From the Buddha’s point of view, though, all these ways of clinging are suffering. And … 
19. On Majjhima Nikāya 61
     … In this way, the Buddha finds a middle way that allows for freedom within the patterns of cause and effect in our actions. The fact of the patterns is what allows us to learn lessons from our actions today that we can apply with some confidence tomorrow. The fact of the openings in the intersection of the patterns is what allows us to develop … 
20. Antidotes to Anger
     … Rather, he’s saying that we have to deal with the anger in such a way that it doesn’t get in the way of responding in an appropriate way, or a skillful way, to what we see as wrong. Once you get the anger out of the way, there are two things that can happen. One is that you may see that the … 
21. It's Like This It's Like This: 108 Dhamma Similes
     … The mind lies in the middle of the sense spheres: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind. That’s the way it is with a person who practices. If we’re careful, alert, and restrained, we’ll get to know ourselves. We’ll get to know the mind: what it’s doing and in what way. A Road Through the Wilderness Training the mind … 
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