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 1 1 |                              The Practice in Brief - March 17, 1954~
 2 1 |         March 17, 1954~Those who practice the Dhamma should train
 3 1 |         Training on the level of practice doesn't simply mean studying,
 4 1 |          or reading. You have to practice so as to see clearly with
 5 2 |          and let go. You have to practice so that you're really good
 6 2 |       you have the time, you can practice at home, at night or early
 7 2 |     pleasure that comes from the practice, it's a cool pleasure that
 8 3 | insignificant spoil their entire practice. If you can't practice even
 9 3 |    entire practice. If you can't practice even these basic, beginning
10 3 |          the later stages of the practice. This is why you have to
11 3 |        able to benefit from your practice for the sake of eliminating
12 3 |       their consequences -- your practice can only deteriorate day
13 3 |   following the defilements, our practice can only sink lower and
14 3 |       ourselves. When we do, our practice of self-inspection in higher
15 3 |          don't have any means of practice for putting them out. People
16 3 |         study of the Dhamma, our practice of the Dhamma, shows its
17 4 |                       Continuous Practice - January 14, 1964~ ~The
18 4 |          makes this a continuous practice....For the most part we'
19 4 |           This is why we have to practice concentration: to make the
20 4 |              Now, of course, the practice is something you can do
21 4 |          to before you began the practice. ~ ~ ~
22 6 |          very difficult. If your practice is hit-or-miss -- a bit
23 7 | defilement, is a function of our practice of the Dhamma. If we don'
24 7 |          the Dhamma. If we don't practice the Dhamma, we'll keep floating
25 7 |      victim to temptation. ~This practice is something of the highest
26 7 |        People who don't study or practice the Dhamma have wasted their
27 7 |   suffering and know the path of practice for freeing ourselves from
28 7 |         t know the Dhamma, don't practice the Dhamma -- no matter
29 7 |        Yet if we make a constant practice of studying and contemplating
30 7 |           how can we not want to practice? ~Only intelligent people,
31 7 |        be able to stick with the practice. Foolish people won't want
32 7 |          than burn them away. To practice the Dhamma you need a certain
33 7 |   defilement. Only then can your practice progress. And no matter
34 7 |  practicing on to the end. ~This practice isn't something you do from
35 7 |          pain, and to follow the practice that frees you from pain.
36 7 |      important all lies with the practice. ~* * *~Don't think that
37 7 |        come to realize that this practice of the Dhamma, in which
38 7 |       find that the worth of our practice will grow higher and higher
39 7 |       worse. But those of us who practice the Dhamma don't need to
40 7 |    especially in our life of the practice. We have to contemplate
41 7 |     empty and free. ~This is the practice that weakens all the defilements,
42 7 |         us. It's because of this practice of the Dhamma that our lives
43 7 |       you to keep working at the practice without being complacent,
44 8 |         This is one point of the practice we can work at constantly.
45 8 |          internal awareness? The practice we need to work at in our
46 8 |          So the point we have to practice in this latter stage doesn'
47 8 |         distracted. First you'll practice this theme, then you'll
48 8 |          this theme, then you'll practice that, then you'll make comparisons,
49 8 |         arise and disband. First practice keeping awareness right
50 8 |       things. If you don't, your practice won't accomplish anything,
51 9 |         knowledge we gain in the practice has to keep changing through
52 10|      extremely important for the practice, this question of right
53 10|     correct in the course of our practice, don't go latching onto
54 10|      there in our character. Our practice is basically a probing deep
55 10|       The basic challenge in the practice is this one point and nothing
56 10|    learned, when you come to the practice you have to put all the
57 10|        to only one theme in your practice. If the mind has lots of
58 10|     something you really have to practice, and then you'll really
59 10|          how can you not want to practice? ~If you examine yourself
60 11|          was able to observe how practice consisting of nothing but
61 12|       special benefits from your practice. You have to focus so as
62 12|        say that we gain from the practice, we're not talking about