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  2. Unentangled Compassion
     … It’s as if there’s a committee in the head. And the different committee members can either be really detrimental for one another or they can learn how to work together and help one another. One member can see the drawbacks or the weaknesses of another member and can provide the strengths that are needed. This is why there’s no one-fold … 
  3. The Self-correcting Mind
     … We talk about the committee of the mind. This is one area where the committee can actually be useful. You have different members: You have the equanimity member, you’ve got the concentration member, you’ve got the uplifting energy member. And you want them to work together, to get coordinated, to be able to observe one another, to see where things are lacking … 
  4. A Slave to Your Moods
     … It’s like having a committee in your mind and there are some bullies in the back saying, “Okay, now it’s my turn!” And they don’t really care whether your long-term happiness is going to benefit or not. They want something short, something quick. Which is why you have to learn you can’t listen to them either. If you’re … 
  5. Ego
     … The other sense of ego, though, is the ego who’s is the member of the inner committee who tries to negotiate between your sense of what you should do and your sense of what you want to do—so that the shoulds don’t get too overpowering, and your wants don’t obliterate your sense of right and wrong. In other words, you … 
  6. Tranquility & Insight
     … This is where it’s useful to think of the mind as being like a committee. There are lots of people in the committee. When we talk about dealing with self and not-self, you have lots of selves in the mind—lots of opinions, lots of advice. There may be a lot of unskillful members of the committee, but you don’t have … 
  7. Benefitting from Admirable Friendship
     … It’s as if you’ve got a whole committee and you have to determine which members you’re going to side with. This is a very basic principle the Buddha said in finding protection in life: learning which people to take as your friends and which ones not to take as your friends. People who are just your acquaintances and you’re friendly … 
  8. How to Talk to Yourself
     … As for the voices in the mind that say “I can’t stand the pain, it’s too much for me, I can’t do this,” think of them as committee members in your mind who are not being very helpful, so why pay them any attention? Try to point the conversation in the committee in a better direction. Talk to yourself about the … 
  9. A Sense of Yourself
     … A group of Burmese people had gotten together, formed a committee, and wanted to present him with some land to build a monastery. He talked about this to the Thai Ambassador to Burma. Apparently the Thai Ambassador had some connections back in Bangkok. When Ajaan Lee got back to Bangkok and started looking into how this might succeed, he found out there was a … 
  10. Old Kamma & New
     … We talk about the committee of the mind. Well, a lot of the members of the committee are just old kamma. You want your skillful new kamma to be the chairman of the meeting who can decide who’s speaking out of order and who has the right and who doesn’t have the right to vote on what you’re going to be … 
  11. Concentration & Insight
     … Is this a good desire? Is it a bad desire? Is it something I want to identify with? Something I don’t? You begin to get a sense that there are lots of different members of your committee here in the mind, lots of different voices, some of which you can trust, some of which you can’t. Being with the breath makes you … 
  12. A Leap of the Heart
     … They’ve taken over that much of the mind, that much of the mind’s committee. You want to see them as soon as the first thought comes into one member of the committee. Why does it come? Sometimes you find that some strange physical sensation in the body kicks in these thoughts. Other times it’s when you’re tired. Other times it … 
  13. Dhamma Medicine for Free
     … Remind yourself that the mind is like a committee. There are lots of different voices in there, and you don’t have to pay attention to every voice in the committee. Just listen to the voice that says: “Stay with the breath. Stay grounded in the breath.” Then have a little dialogue with yourself over how the breath feels. Is it too long or … 
  14. Book search result icon The Autobiography of Phra Ajaan Lee The Autobiography of Phra Ajaan Lee
     … However the money is to be collected, have it go toward the cremation until the committee in charge feels that it has enough. 2. If there is any money left over, appoint a committee to consider handing the excess over to the hospital. 3. If the committee doesn’t see fit, the money needn’t go to the hospital. When these three points had … 
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  15. Tranquility & Insight in Tandem
     … Even though you’re sitting here saying you’re going to meditate, only part of the committee in your mind has signed on. There are a lot of committee members waiting for you to leave a gap in your mindfulness so that they can go off and do what they want. So you have to be mindful, alert, watching what’s happening—reminding yourself … 
  16. The Riddle of Freedom
     … all the different levels of the committee members. And ultimately, you dig down to something that really is free: totally free in an unconditioned way. This is how exercising your freedom increases it and gives you greater insight into the possibility of freedom: why it’s possible. Then, ultimately, you get to something that’s even more important than that: the fact that there … 
  17. Suffering Is a Feeding Addiction
     … How do you protect that, that awareness of the breath, from all the other pushes and pulls in your mind and all the different committee members who tell you, “Now’s a good time. You’ve got a whole hour free, you could think about whatever.” How do you protect the mind? If you’ve had some experience with meditating, you can remember things … 
  18. Dealing with Confusion
     … simply, “Oh, yes, there’s that, too.” This is where the image of the mind as a committee is useful because you can see the voices in the mind as members of the committee, but you don’t have to go along with them. They may be campaigning. They may be trying to influence you in a particular direction and it may have been … 
  19. Choosing Your Allies
     … As I often say, the mind is like a committee. Sometimes it’s like the Chicago City Council: All kinds of deals are being made behind the scenes and they can get disruptive. Sometimes it’s like the national assembly they called in France at the end of the Old Regime. They were called in for one purpose and they ended up overthrowing the … 
  20. Your Hair Is on Fire
     … See: “Where is the allure of that kind of thinking? Which member in my mind’s committee likes that kind of thinking? Is that someone I want to identify with?” That’s another choice you have. As for the old issues that tend to get bubbling up to the surface as you’re meditating, this is where it’s good to think about the … 
  21. Growing Up Inside
     … The other quality is restraint, realizing there are a lot of things that you might like to do, and that the children in your mental committee might like to do, but if you give in to those impulses, it’s going to be bad; you’re going to suffer. This is another reason why we have the meditation to fall back on. The sense … 
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