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  2. Clinging-Aggregates in Context
     … Often you find yourself identifying with the various skills you might have developed in order to get what you want, to get past the obstacles. That becomes one of your identities, too. We have lots of these identities in the mind. For most of us, that’s how we find pleasure, how we find happiness in life. Yet the Buddha’s pointing out that … 
  3. Perfecting the Mind in an Imperfect World
     … The only way you’re going to get past unskillful states is to understand the process of cause and effect so that when you finally see a particular attitude or a particular belief leading to unskillful states, you realize that it was the cause of the problem. When you realize that you don’t have to hold onto that attitude, you don’t have … 
  4. Question Your Defilements
     … I’ve got to do something about that.” So he was convinced that the practice would be good way to, at least, build up some of the merit he was lacking, build up some of the good karma he was lacking. So he said, “Okay wherever the practice takes me, I want to go. Whatever it demands, I want to try to meet those … 
  5. Faith in the Practice
     … That spurs you on to say, “What can I do to actually know these things for sure?” Like the principle of karma: Do you really have freedom of choice, or is there some evil genius, some evil god behind you making you do things? Or is it just the stars, all very impersonal? You don’t really know for sure. But if you assume … 
  6. When You Practice on Your Own
     … There are some extreme ascetic practices that he didn’t recommend, such as trying to burn your karma away through enduring pain, but others, like taking one meal a day, accepting only the food that you get on your alms round, living out in the open, living under a tree: These things, the Buddha said, work for some people and not for others. So … 
  7. Do Jhana
     … somebody you like, somebody you don’t like, somebody from your past, somebody you don’t recognize at all. Your first reaction should always be goodwill for that person, to cut through any of the narratives that might come in and entangle the mind. The Buddha also taught Rahula to contemplate the unattractiveness of the body. If you start getting overcome with attachment to … 
  8. Book search result icon Refuge Summary
     … Most Vedic and Samana philosophers assumed that a person’s identity extended beyond this lifetime, eons before birth back into the past, and after death on into the future. There was some disagreement, however, as to whether one’s identity from life to life would change or remain the same. The Vedas had viewed rebirth in a positive light, but by the time of … 
  9. Dedicating Goodness, Spreading Goodwill
     … And she asked Ajaan Fuang, “How can I turn this off?” He said, “Look, you’re in a position where you can actually help these beings, and you can learn something about karma in the meantime. When you meet them, ask them, ‘What did you do to get reborn this way?’, and then dedicate the merit of your practice to them.” In some cases … 
  10. Harmony Inside & Outside
     … Whatever wrong they’ve done, you’re not going to try to play karma cop, making sure they get punished right away. In terms of knowledge, you share your knowledge in a way that’s not overbearing, but genuinely is helpful. We’ll talk about that in a minute. As a general principle, as we live in the monastery, there’s work to be … 
  11. A Strong Sense of Self
     … That’s a typical human attitude, but here we try to make that attitude a sublime attitude—the attitude of the brahmas, who can have goodwill for all beings—and we do that for our own good, because if we can have ill will for someone, it’s very easy to act in unskillful ways around that person, and that then becomes our karma … 
  12. Book search result icon The Buddha’s Teachings The Buddha’s Teachings
     … On reaching the fourth level of jhāna, in which his breathing was naturally still, and his mind was radiant and equanimous, he applied that level of concentration to gain three knowledges: • knowledge of his own past lives; • knowledge of how all beings die and are reborn in line with their kamma (a word meaning “action,” better known now in its Sanskrit form, karma); and … 
  13. A Good Buddhist Ego
     … There’s one where he says you put aside thoughts of the past, thoughts of the future, concerns for the future, and you focus on what’s arising in the present moment. Why do you do that? Because you have to do it today. If you don’t do it now, it’s not going to get done. Tomorrow you may die. In other … 
  14. Book search result icon Buddhist Romanticism Buddhist Romanticism
     … This belief in karma and rebirth, in fact, is one of Buddhism’s most potent arguments for the stewardship of the planet. And yet Buddhist Romanticism—like Herder and the early Romantics before them—have rejected belief in karma and rebirth, and have offered only a vague generality on interconnectedness and evolution in its place. But these vague notions of responsibility toward others whom … 
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  15. Page search result icon Bhikkhu Pāṭimokkha | The Bhikkhus’ Code of Discipline
     … In the meantime, the law of karma would guarantee that in the long run, they would not be getting away with anything at all. The final two levels of rules in the Patimokkha do not give a particular penalty. The sekhiya (Sk) rules — dealing primarily with etiquette — simply state that one should work at following them. The Sutta Vibhanga explains that if one oversteps … 
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