Chapter

  1 1|         dam, you'll know that they're driven deep, deep into the
  2 1|            the ground so that they're absolutely firm and immovable.
  3 1|          drive them into mud, they're easily swayed by the slightest
  4 1|            that stability. ~If you're careful not to let the mind
  5 1|    continuous. For example, if you're going to sit for an hour
  6 1|            neutral each moment you're standing, sitting, lying
  7 1|          stable within itself, you're protected on all sides.
  8 1|          be driven in so that they're solid and secure with your
  9 1|            this no matter what you're doing. If you can train
 10 1|           for our dam so that they're good and solid, keeping
 11 1|            and centered whether we're sitting, standing, walking,
 12 1|          in the pilings until they're solid every time there's
 13 1|          Regardless of whether you're talking or whatever, the
 14 1|       yourself be weak, for if you're weak you won't be able to
 15 1|          way. Check to see how you're doing each day. And make
 16 1|       suffering and stress. If you're not genuine, you'll end
 17 2|    delicious flavors. Whether they're looking for good physical
 18 2|            sides, even though they're not easy to know because
 19 2|             The external things we're able to know and let go
 20 2|            to chase them out. They're stubborn and determined
 21 2|            s just right. While you're practicing in this way,
 22 2|           be strict with it. If we're weak and lax, there's no
 23 2|           lead you astray. ~If you're weak and settle for whatever
 24 2|        their delicious flavors, we're sure to get snagged on the
 25 2|            are any areas where you're still losing out, you have
 26 2|     determination to get what they're after: "That's what I want.
 27 2|            to be wary. Suppose you're perfectly aware, and all
 28 2|           regardless of whether we're being confronted with physical
 29 2|             This is the problem we're faced with at every moment.
 30 2|        many, many ways in which we're deluded with pleasure. Whatever
 31 2|       pleasure to offer, that they're stressful by their very
 32 2|            their very nature. They're not us or ours. Take them
 33 2|          for us to realize what we're doing, even though we have
 34 2|        about anything at all. They're free from doubt, all right,
 35 2|     important question, for if you're not alive to it, then no
 36 2|       temporary exercise. When you're done, you get back to your
 37 2|          of the matter is that you're still a slave to stupidity,
 38 2|        your very eyes, and yet you're still able to open your
 39 2|           and then another. ~If we're not observant to see how
 40 2|           to our trust in them. We're disciples of the demons
 41 2|         see this for ourselves, we're lost in that jungle charnel
 42 2|       defilements can, because you're willing to trust them, to
 43 2|     yourself carefully so that you're no longer enslaved to them
 44 3|          living at home is that we're observing the precepts.
 45 3|       arise. It will see what they're like and how to probe inward
 46 3|         training it, eventually we're sure to bring it under our
 47 3|    sustaining your efforts. If you're concerned only with finding
 48 3|        bait again. It's because we're so addicted to the bait
 49 3|           s hard to tell what they're practicing for -- mostly
 50 3|       stress. This shows that they're still groping around --
 51 3|           can practice, for if you're going to practice, there
 52 3|          you vacillate. And if you're living with sweet-talking
 53 3|        Whenever stress arises they're sure to search out its causes
 54 3|             Regardless of what you're doing, saying, or thinking,
 55 3|          make you slip, for if you're tenacious in sustaining
 56 3|          to develop is because you're not really sensitive to
 57 3|         the Dhamma, watch out: You're sure to get pulled over
 58 3|   themselves. For this reason they're not headed for anything
 59 3|          for the defilements, they're still lying in wait to burn
 60 3|        yourself with them, for you're concerned solely with penetrating
 61 3|       craving arises, and why they're all so very quick. ~When
 62 3|      realize their situation. They're like worms that live in
 63 3|           are ignorant say that we're born to gain wealth and
 64 3|      yourself get stuck on it, you're like a person addicted to
 65 3|        drug whenever you want, you're okay. ~When people can't
 66 3|           they take the drug. They're ingesting sensuality and
 67 3|             Instead, they say they're happy When the longing gets
 68 3|     vegetarians. Why? Because they're still attached to flavor,
 69 3|          when you can say that you're making progress in the Dhamma:
 70 3|           clung to. See how far we're going to be released through
 71 3|         things are not-self." They're all unworthy of attachment.
 72 3|        many names for it, but they're all one and the same thing.
 73 3|          self to be born, then you're stuck in the cycle of suffering
 74 3|           you to hold on, then you're a disciple of Mara. You
 75 3|    delicious. You may say that you're disenchanted, but the mind
 76 3|       affair of the demons. If you're empty and free, it's an
 77 4|            outside is something we're already used to: Whenever
 78 4|     clearly the ways in which they're inconstant, changing, and
 79 4| thought-formations. As soon as you're aware, let them stop. As
 80 4|          them stop. As soon as you're aware, let them stop, and
 81 4|            happens, as soon as you're mindfully aware of it, the
 82 4|            stopping as soon as you're mindful. Any other approach
 83 4|         while I'm speaking and you're listening, just focus your
 84 4|        immediately, even when they're like two people interrupting
 85 4|         around in any way. ~If you're going to sit for an hour,
 86 4|           hour, make sure that you're mindful right at the mind
 87 4|  equanimity by realizing that they're the pains of the aggregates --
 88 4|     understand. We think that they're true pleasure, which makes
 89 4|          results. It means that we're entangled in the delicious
 90 4|         regardless of whether they're physical feelings or mental
 91 4|            from the mind while you're still strong and healthy. ~
 92 4|           extremely useful, but we're rarely interested in contemplating
 93 4|          have to realize that they're burning hot every time they
 94 4|          they have you happy, they're harder to detect. So you
 95 4|            let go of them. If they're many, you'll be able to
 96 4|       really know inconstancy, you're sure to let go of defilement,
 97 4|           to latch onto? ~When you're persistent in contemplating
 98 4|          mean the same thing. They're simply conventional designations
 99 4|           is really happiness. ~We're all stuck in this delusion
100 4|         day, every moment, and you're sure to progress in your
101 4|         worthy of interest. If you're not interested in the practice
102 4|           dispassion at all. If we're really disciples of the
103 4|          of mental qualities: They're inconstant and stressful.
104 4|        other side, simply that you're now looking from a different
105 4|            things to see where you're still attached. Keep cross-examining
106 4|         all will become clear. ~We're already good at following
107 4|      gathering things up until you're thoroughly embroiled: arranging
108 4|         Think of it like this: You're a huge playhouse showing