Chapter

  1 1 |           thick -- with its perceiving mind in charge. This body has
  2 1 |              see clearly with your own mind in the following steps: ~
  3 1 |                look inside at your own mind until you can know in what
  4 1 |             keep aware of the body and mind until you've trained the
  5 1 |               until you've trained the mind to stay firmly in a state
  6 1 |               neutrality. ~b. Once the mind can stay in a state of normalcy,
  7 1 |            arising and disbanding. The mind will be empty, neutral,
  8 1 |                this truth clearly, the mind will be empty, not holding
  9 1 |             even assume itself to be a mind or anything at all. In other
 10 2 |       stretching up again, or else the mind won't be able to settle
 11 2 |                way. Only then will the mind begin to settle down. As
 12 2 |               normally refined and the mind has begun to settle down,
 13 2 |            focus your attention on the mind itself. If it slips off
 14 2 |                know right there at the mind. Know the mind right at
 15 2 |            there at the mind. Know the mind right at the mind with every
 16 2 |             Know the mind right at the mind with every in-and-out breath
 17 2 |           breath as a leash to tie the mind in place so that it doesn'
 18 2 |            make sure that you keep the mind normal and neutral. When
 19 2 |                of it and focus on your mind....For those of you who'
 20 2 |                anything arises, if the mind is affected by craving or
 21 2 |               Start out by keeping the mind neutral as your basic stance.
 22 2 |             pleased or upset. Keep the mind continuously neutral and
 23 2 |                pain of nature. ~If the mind latches tight onto anything,
 24 2 |              pain arises, separate the mind from it. Let it be the pain
 25 2 |                the body. Don't let the mind be pained, too.... ~This
 26 2 |               or pain, it can make the mind peaceful -- peaceful even
 27 2 |                pain is still pain. The mind keeps knowing, enduring
 28 2 |              important the ways of the mind are. The mind may be hard
 29 2 |              ways of the mind are. The mind may be hard to train, but
 30 2 |         morning, keeping watch on your mind -- you'll gain the understanding
 31 2 |              Those who don't train the mind like this go through life --
 32 2 |              knowing a thing about the mind at all. ~When you know your
 33 2 |                 When you know your own mind, then when any really heavy
 34 2 |                fact that you know your mind will make the pain less
 35 2 |               s not easy, yet once the mind is well trained there's
 36 2 |           experience this still, quiet mind.... ~This is a really important
 37 2 |                 at equanimity. Let the mind be above its feelings --
 38 2 |             and paint things over; the mind will struggle and won't
 39 2 |            watch on your own heart and mind. ~ ~
 40 3 |              How much freedom does the mind lose? These are things we
 41 3 |             what's going on inside the mind. ~Once we're aware with
 42 3 |              why the sensations in the mind when provoked by defilement
 43 3 |               or ideas come out of the mind, we have to analyze them
 44 4 |             moment. The moments of the mind -- the arising, persisting,
 45 4 |             and fast. To see them, the mind has to be quiet. If the
 46 4 |                has to be quiet. If the mind is involved in distractions,
 47 4 |             concentration: to make the mind quiet, to provide a foundation
 48 4 |             breath, or be aware of the mind as it focuses on the breath.
 49 4 |               you're also aware of the mind. And again, the mind is
 50 4 |               the mind. And again, the mind is what knows the breath.
 51 4 |               breath together with the mind. Don't think of anything
 52 4 |              of anything else, and the mind will settle down and grow
 53 4 |               contemplate.  Making the mind still so that you can contemplate
 54 4 |             happens inside or out. The mind has to be in a state of
 55 4 |           point where you can stop the mind from forming thoughts under
 56 5 |           breath to see what the still mind is like. It's very simple,
 57 5 |            hard. But when you let your mind think 108 or 1009 things,
 58 5 |             see if you can engage your mind with the breath in the same
 59 5 |             breath. Why is it that the mind can stay engaged with the
 60 5 |            from staying focused on the mind at all times: Sometimes
 61 5 |         reference point, that state of mind can be more stable and sure,
 62 6 |                14, 1964~ ~Normally the mind isn't willing to stop and
 63 6 | thought-processes settle down. Let the mind take its stance in a state
 64 6 |                get any results. So the mind first has to take a stance. ~
 65 6 |             you take a stance that the mind can maintain in a state
 66 6 |              into the future. Have the mind know itself in the stance
 67 6 |              to the basic level of the mind to see if it's as normal
 68 6 |                know whether or not the mind is in a state of normalcy,
 69 6 |            like this continuously, the mind will be able to keep its
 70 6 |               know, right there at the mind and can tell whether or
 71 7 |          constant supervision over the mind is a way of learning what
 72 7 |                throughout our body and mind, and we'll come to know
 73 7 |             can stop and be still, the mind will have a chance to be
 74 7 |             that you can supervise the mind and keep it calm, without
 75 7 |             away, the more strength of mind we'll gain. If we let the
 76 7 |               defilements burn us, the mind will be sapped of its strength,
 77 7 |              within ourselves that the mind isn't as troubled and restless
 78 7 |             sufferings in our body and mind grow sharp and biting, we
 79 7 |            pain so that ultimately the mind can gain its freedom from
 80 7 |               conglomerate of body and mind. It's here for us to see
 81 7 |                matter and those of the mind -- to see how they interact
 82 7 |              continually supervise the mind with mindfulness and discernment,
 83 7 |            that obscurity and make the mind empty and free. ~This is
 84 8 |                 November 3, 1975~ ~The mind, if mindfulness and awareness
 85 8 |                awareness is inside the mind. Whenever the mind slips
 86 8 |          inside the mind. Whenever the mind slips away and goes out
 87 8 |               to read in this body and mind are here to be read with
 88 8 |             right here in the body and mind. As long as we can keep
 89 8 |                long as we can keep the mind constantly aware all around,
 90 8 |            aren't a lot of issues. The mind can be at normalcy, at equilibrium --
 91 8 |                will tend to arise, the mind will see their constant
 92 8 |               have to know that if the mind can be still, totally and
 93 8 |              as you have to -- and the mind won't get worked up about
 94 8 |                yourself correctly, the mind will be able to stay at
 95 8 |                any resistance. ~If the mind can stay with itself and
 96 8 |                Keep watch right at the mind. When you keep watch at
 97 8 |             When you keep watch at the mind and your mindfulness is
 98 8 |               things can still get the mind engaged? What sorts of thoughts
 99 8 |               you'll see it -- and the mind will grow calm. ~So the
100 8 |       understand anything. Even if the mind is at normalcy on the ordinary,
101 8 |              know how to watch it, the mind is sure to get disturbed.
102 8 |           latch onto and then gets the mind into a turmoil. This point
103 8 |              suffering and stress. The mind will be empty and free,
104 8 |              intuitions arise when the mind is still, you'll get the
105 8 |               is still, you'll get the mind worked up into a turmoil.
106 8 |               firm stance right at the mind in and of itself. In the
107 8 |      mindfulness is standing firm, the mind won't be affected by the
108 8 |           troubles and turmoils of the mind will dissolve away. ~If
109 8 |              mindfulness slips and the mind goes out giving meanings
110 8 |              have to keep check on the mind in and of itself, contemplating
111 8 |              itself, contemplating the mind in and of itself. Or else
112 8 |             all of which will keep the mind from growing still. ~If
113 8 |                skilled at looking, the mind can be at peace. You'll
114 8 |          checking to see that when the mind can be at normalcy, centered
115 8 |                  The sensations in the mind that we explain at such
116 8 |               be able to know that the mind that is aware of awareness
117 8 |                can be concocted in the mind when it knows in this way.
118 8 |            maintaining is the state of mind at normalcy -- knowing,
119 8 |               will have an effect. The mind will go out with labels
120 8 |               sight, hearing, etc. The mind will stop and look, stop
121 8 |            awareness together, and the mind will stop getting unsettled,
122 8 |               watching and knowing the mind in and of itself: That will
123 8 |                in the body because the mind that's aware of itself in
124 8 |            keeps constant watch on the mind in and of itself. That's
125 8 |             know that this is what the mind is like when it's at peace:
126 8 |              It's the emptiness of the mind unattached, uninvolved,
127 8 |                from joy or sorrow. The mind will stay in relative normalcy
128 8 |        pleasing and displeasing -- the mind will become unsettled: no
129 8 |               issues that arise in the mind have to be cut away. Then
130 8 |                in a lot of issues, the mind won't be able to stay still.
131 8 |           clear. ~As you look into the mind, you have to part it, you
132 8 |                 keep knowing. When the mind is quiet, you'll see that
133 8 |             and waves, they strike the mind and it goes splashing all
134 8 |         control. This splashing of the mind includes craving and defilement
135 8 |                thought-formations. The mind will be aware in itself
136 8 |          arising and disbanding in the mind, we won't be able to let
137 8 |              penetrate everything. The mind will then be free from turmoil.
138 8 |                continuous watch of the mind in and of itself, and you'
139 9 |          sensation of knowing when the mind gains knowledge of anything
140 9 |            able to see easily when the mind is provoked by passion or
141 9 |               hidden things -- how the mind is covered with many, many
142 10|              mental event in which the mind labels itself is a form
143 10|              knowing that obscures the mind from itself in an insidious
144 10|                the outer levels of the mind to the inner ones. This
145 10|          subtlety and precision....The mind has to use its own mindfulness
146 10|               itself, leaving just the mind in and of itself, the body
147 10|              see clear through. If the mind hasn't been trained to look
148 10|                s what. This is why the mind's sensations, when it isn'
149 10|              more defilements onto the mind, making it even more thickly
150 10|               in your practice. If the mind has lots of themes to concern
151 10|          desire to stand out keeps the mind obscured. ~Of all the various
152 10|               sides with yourself, the mind will cover itself up with
153 10|               awareness with which the mind reads itself and actually
154 10|             find the instigator -- the mind, or this property of consciousness --
155 10|             things at all, because the mind is continually wanting to
156 10|                deep in the seed of the mind, in this property of consciousness.
157 11|          firmly determined to make the mind quiet, but even after a
158 11|              many days now, and yet my mind won't settle down at all.
159 11|              to simply be aware of the mind." I started to take my hands
160 11|             other, I could see that my mind was like a pendulum swinging
161 11|        position. At the same time, the mind was in a state of awareness
162 11|            down to rest. This state of mind remained there as a stillness
163 11|            down inside. Eventually the mind came out of this state and
164 11|               desire simply upsets the mind and keeps it from being
165 11|            when one's awareness of the mind is just right, an inner
166 11|               that the moment when the mind let go of everything was
167 12|                 not simply to make the mind still. Focus on how things
168 12|               desire for anything. The mind will disengage right there --
169 12|           shape, the sensations of the mind as it's aware of things
170 12|                This is why we make the mind disengaged. We don't disengage
171 12|    disengagement we want. The more the mind is truly disengaged, the
172 12|            going, you'll find that the mind or consciousness under the
173 12|          continually. ~If you keep the mind well supervised so that
174 12|                 Emptiness. Before, the mind was embroiled. Defilement
175 12|               great deal, for when the mind really knows the defilements
176 12|               special like this in the mind -- special in that when
177 12|            that the true nature of the mind is that it can be empty....
178 13|           watch right at the heart and mind, you'll be able to see clearly,