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  2. Fighting off Ignorance
     … But if you realize even when things get difficult that you have the power to change the way you breathe, change the way you think, change the way you label things, change the way you evaluate the potentials of your situation, so that even in the midst of difficult situations you can be free from suffering, then you can make a difference, because you … 
  3. Apart from the World
     … Fortunately, we have the Dhamma which teaches us that we don’t have to follow in the ways of the world. The world can spin around as it wants, but we don’t have to spin with it. Ajaan Lee’s image is that there has to be some point in the middle that doesn’t spin around. So you stay there. And then … 
  4. Cheerfully Ardent
     … I’m out here miserable in the middle of the forest. I can’t get anywhere in my meditation.” A deva appears to him and says, “Do you realize how many people are on their way to hell right now, and how much they really envy you, your chance to practice?” So think in ways that lift your spirits and keep focused on the … 
  5. Book search result icon The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II Alms Bowls & Other Accessories | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
     … Leather footwear A bhikkhu in the middle Ganges Valley may wear new leather sandals only if the soles are made from a single layer of leather. He may wear multi-layer sandals if they are cast-off, which according to the Commentary means that they have been worn (presumably, by someone else) at least once. Outside of the middle Ganges Valley, one may wear … 
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  6. The Uses of Pleasure
    When the Buddha called his path of practice a middle way between the extremes of indulgence in sensual pleasure and indulgence in self-torment, he didn’t mean that it was going to adopt a neutral feeling-tone. He was offering a different kind of pleasure and a different way of relating to it. The different kind of pleasure is the pleasure of concentration … 
  7. Peace of Mind
     … Try to breathe in a way that feels really good. The parts of the body that are tense: Try to breathe in a way that’s relaxing and soothing for them. If there are parts that feel weak, try to breathe in a way that feels more energizing, because well-being isn’t just relaxation. There also has to be energy—not nervous energy … 
  8. Keep Things Simple
     … But the Buddha’s focus in the practice is on being skillful in doing - keeping mindful, keeping alert, being ardent in the practice, finding a sense of “just right.” When they talk about the Middle Way, the middle-ness lies in the amount of effort that’s just right for where you are right now, which sometimes may require a lot of effort, sometimes … 
  9. Keeping Your Affairs Separate
     … That way you keep your views straight, you keep your opinions straight, and things don’t get skewed by the spinning of the world. Have a clear sense of what’s up and down, and north and south, and don’t get your directions all mixed up. So try to have a sense of this solid, stable point in the middle of all the … 
  10. Shaping Your Breath, Shaping Your Life
     … Ajaan Lee recommends some ways of imagining the breath energy moving through the body. This doesn’t mean moving the air though the body; you’re moving the energy. Think of the energy coming in the back of the neck right at the base of the skull, going down the spine; coming in at the middle of the chest, going down through the heart … 
  11. The Bridge to Concentration
     … The middle level is when you start gaining some control over your sense doors. You have to be careful about how you look at things, how you listen and relate to all your other sensory input. You begin to see certain ways that you relate to sounds and sights, etc., that give rise to greed, anger, and delusion in the mind. So you’ve … 
  12. Four Mountains Moving In
    There was a time when King Pasenadi came to see the Buddha in the middle of the day, and the Buddha asked him, “Where are you coming from? What have you been doing?” The king said, in a burst of real frankness, “Oh the typical things of a king who’s obsessed with power and wants to maintain his rule over the country.” The … 
  13. A Special Time
     … your nerves, all the way out to every pore of your skin. That’s breath as well. So you’re dealing with your whole experience the body as you breathe here. Now, there are different nodes of this energy system in the body, such as the middle of the head, the palate, the base of the throat, the middle of the chest, or the … 
  14. A Strong Sense of Self
     … So why act in ways that lead to suffering? You’re convinced in your power to make a difference by the way you think, by the way you speak, and by the way you act. That’s a strength, because people who don’t have that belief are weak and evasive. If you’re weak in that way, all kinds of pressures—pressures from … 
  15. Book search result icon Desires for the End of Desire Q & A
     … In Method Two, Ajaan Lee says, “Learn to know the points of focus of the mind that are also the resting spots of the breath, i.e., first the tip of the nose, the middle of the head (by the way, where is the middle of the head?), or the palate, etc.” Would you explain what this means and what we have to do … 
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  16. High-level Metta
     … As things begin to get lax—say, in the middle of the afternoon, when the afternoon seems awfully long—remind yourself that you don’t know how much longer the afternoon’s going to last, you do know you have this moment right now. What’s the best thing you can do with this moment? To train your mind. That’s a way of … 
  17. Potentials
     … the solar plexus, the middle of the chest, base of the throat, middle of the head. Then start at the base of the skull at the back of the neck. Think of the breath energy entering there, from behind, and then going down through the shoulders, the arms, to the tips of the fingers. And then going from the back of the neck down … 
  18. Don’t Accept Change
     … But in the beginning, in the middle, and almost to the end, you have to hold on to it. It’s going to change on you. It can change, again, in a good direction or a bad direction, so you have to be on top of things. So you don’t just accept change. You have to use your discernment to see what kind … 
  19. Heedfulness
     … Nothing but strengths? You’d be way up higher. So here you are, with a middling batch of strengths and weaknesses. So try to figure them out. Where are you strong in terms of conviction? Or weak? Are you strong or weak in terms of your virtue? Strong or weak in terms of your ability to improvise? There are lots of things you could … 
  20. Keeping Your Head
    There’s a passage in the Canon where King Pasanedi comes to see the Buddha in the middle of the day. The Buddha asks him, “Where are you coming from in the middle of the day? What have you been doing?” And the king, in a remarkable display of frankness, says, “Oh, the typical things that obsess someone who’s obsessed with power, gaining … 
  21. Book search result icon A Burden off the Mind The Questions
     … Seeing this benefit our teacher teaches the subduing of passion & desire for consciousness.’” — SN 22:2 § 4. “And what 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, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration … 
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