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1 2| Battle Within - November 13, 1970~Today we are meeting
2 3| of Attachment - November 21, 1970~Today's our day to
3 4| Stop Right Here - November 28, 1970~Today we have gathered
4 1| Pilings of a Dam - November 6, 1970~ ~Discussing the practice
5 4| Because the Buddha had the ability to know such things instantly
6 4| progress, enabling us to keep abreast of defilement, craving and
7 1| point is that you get rid of absentmindedness and distractions. This in
8 2| that when we practice we accept only the pleasure and stop
9 2| and equanimity. That won't accomplish anything. The defilements
10 1| defilement will arise of its own accord without your having to do
11 4| begun to see things, to acknowledge the defilements and stress
12 | across
13 2| whatever way they move into action. We watch them, know them,
14 4| But when there's pain, it acts in an entirely opposite
15 4| to the point of becoming adept and resourceful at disbanding
16 2| while it's gathered into an adequate level of calm and stability.
17 4| a change. It wants us to adjust things in this way or that.
18 4| embroiled: arranging this, adjusting that, wanting this and that,
19 2| illusion. It's like being adrift, alone in the middle of
20 2| children to teenagers and into adults. Your mindfulness and discernment
21 4| example. We won't have to advertise, for they'll have to notice.
22 3| addicted to meat-eating are afraid to become vegetarians. Why?
23 3| that arises at the mind and agitates it, leading to the kamma
24 2| things may have happened long ago, our perceptions bring them
25 2| deeper, more subtle levels ahead. They have to keep penetrating
26 4| the whole time. Don't just aim at the pleasure of tranquility.
27 2| without understanding its true aims, you end up deceiving yourself
28 3| matter how old you are, the air you breathe isn't just for
29 2| question, for if you're not alive to it, then no matter how
30 3| keep making a thorough, all-round examination, not just an
31 2| on every side and won't allow it to swell. The methods
32 | almost
33 | am
34 4| something marvelous and amazing. If you start out with right
35 2| our own stupidity, for the amount to which we've deluded ourselves
36 2| starting with the body. Analyze the body down to its elements
37 3| contemplating yourself, you see new angles, you gain more precise self-knowledge
38 2| however great the pain and anguish, however many tears bathe
39 3| issue in human life -- even animals are in the same predicament --
40 4| taught by the wrong view of annihilationism; it's the extinction of
41 4| final pair -- restlessness & anxiety and uncertainty -- cloak
42 3| coffins. Exactly what is appealing about all that? ~We've gone
43 1| those are things outside -- appearing only to disappear -- so
44 3| to the bait that we don't appreciate either the power of craving --
45 2| of effort and persistence appropriate to the task. This is because,
46 4| way to destroy them using apt attention, i.e., a skillful
47 4| see the present with its arisings and passings away, there
48 4| re thoroughly embroiled: arranging this, adjusting that, wanting
49 3| an effort to attain the as-yet-unattained, reach the as-yet-unreached,
50 3| as-yet-unattained, reach the as-yet-unreached, realize the as-yet-unrealized."
51 3| as-yet-unreached, realize the as-yet-unrealized." He didn't want us to be
52 1| insight all on your own. ~So I ask each of you to see whether
53 4| questions you have to keep asking yourself so that the mind
54 3| itself is what they have to attack, that by disbanding this
55 3| whether or not this is worth attaining. If we stay in the world,
56 3| have a fight-to-the-death attitude, and to keep sustaining
57 4| our sufferings. This will attract others to follow our example.
58 3| us to shake off whatever attractive things used to delude us
59 3| defilements that have power and authority in the heart and mind. It'
60 1| nose, tongue, and body are automatically brought under control. If
61 2| have the Buddha's teachings available, explaining these things
62 4| discovered and taught to awaken us. ~This is why it's so
63 3| royal, wealthy, or ordinary backgrounds -- once they had left their
64 3| Lord Buddha said, "Bhavita bahulikata" -- which means, "Develop
65 3| concentration, and discernment in a balanced way. Keep contemplating
66 1| The sense of refreshment bathing the mind that comes as part
67 3| all the suffering they can bear. They've circled around
68 3| their minds -- burned and beaten by defilement, craving,
69 3| stabbing you, slapping you, beating you. ~The more you practice
70 | begin
71 3| that deceive all living beings into falling under its power.
72 3| you no longer have to go believing anyone else or hoping for
73 3| know these truths we don't benefit from staying here. The only
74 2| some of you have really benefited in terms of penetrating
75 3| make the mind quiet. The best thing in life -- the practice
76 2| give up an addiction to betel, cigarettes, or meat: It'
77 | beyond
78 3| As the Lord Buddha said, "Bhavita bahulikata" -- which means, "
79 3| have to go through repeated births and deaths in the three
80 3| as when a person has been bitten by a rabid dog: They give
81 3| understand. So who can you blame? Your own stupidity, that'
82 2| counter-fire to put out the blaze of the defilements, because
83 3| them was because of your blindness, because you didn't understand.
84 3| your heart and drink your blood. You've let them eat you
85 1| comes to bloom. If it hasn't bloomed yet, that's because it's
86 2| seen only in a vague and blurry way and then flitted off
87 3| and yet they can still boast that they can practice anywhere!
88 2| you'll fool yourself into boasting of how many years you practiced
89 3| endure. It's like paddling a boat against the stream -- you
90 1| Otherwise, the mind will start boiling over with its thought concoctions
91 3| important. Thus we don't bother to be strict with ourselves,
92 2| can't relax after little bouts of emptiness and equanimity.
93 4| to stop, just slam on the brakes and you stop immediately.
94 4| mindfulness and discernment break the spell by seeing that
95 2| you have to battle to the brink of death in every area.
96 4| out. It's like having a broom in your hand. Whenever attachment
97 3| personal comfort at all. Each Buddha-to-be has had to undergo suffering
98 2| charge in the mind and won't budge no matter how you try to
99 1| withstand windstorms without budging. You have to be clearly
100 4| some object or waiting to build up the perfections. Don'
101 3| you have to compensate by building up more and more mindfulness
102 3| mindfulness and discernment. Our burdens grow lighter and we come
103 2| inside you when defilement burns you, when your feeling of "
104 4| deal with anything at all, burying yourself in sleep and lazy
105 3| them right in the face and call them what they are: demons
106 4| finish first!" This method of calling a halt can really still
107 2| you can mount a full-scale campaign and come out winning without
108 4| distractions. ~It's like driving a car: When you want to stop,
109 1| that stability. ~If you're careful not to let the mind get
110 3| here or to really stop, get carried away with all kinds of distractions.
111 2| and consciousness that carries pleasurable feelings. All
112 2| the more profound areas to catch sight of the deceits of
113 2| disenchantment and dismay arises, causing us to pity ourselves for
114 4| subside, and eventually cease. ~So in training the mind,
115 4| will become a turmoil of ceaseless imaginings. So you have
116 3| come to live in a Dhamma center, yet if we don't know these
117 1| of meditation, focus on centering the mind like this for the
118 3| with its cause. This is the central issue in human life -- even
119 2| is always looking for the chance to tempt you, to incite
120 2| coffin but you won't have changed any of your basic habits. ~
121 4| the mind as it continually changes -- arising and passing away --
122 4| which they're inconstant, changing, and stressful. ~Now, if
123 4| through is because these characters are blocking your way and
124 2| we're lost in that jungle charnel ground where the demons
125 4| things, self, people, useless chatter, endless news reports. But
126 2| circumspect as they grow from children to teenagers and into adults.
127 4| different angle and have the choice: Do you want the dark angle
128 1| meditation subjects you choose, you stay mindful and aware
129 2| up an addiction to betel, cigarettes, or meat: It's hard to do
130 1| into mischief. It can only circle the post to which its leash
131 3| suffering they can bear. They've circled around in birth and death
132 4| let go of. And so we keep circling around with suffering and
133 1| mental reactions as the circulation improves and pleasant feelings
134 3| free, it's an affair of cleanliness and peace -- an affair of
135 3| what sweeps and cleans and clears and lets go and disbands
136 3| sure to get pulled over the cliff and into the pit of fire. ~
137 4| anxiety and uncertainty -- cloak the mind in darkness. This
138 2| we all know, the mind is cloaked in defilements and mental
139 4| slipping in to spoil things, cloaking the mind in total darkness
140 3| mindfulness to keep constant and close supervision over the senses,
141 1| neutral -- because we've closed five of the six sense doors
142 2| the Requisites -- food, clothing, shelter, and medicine --
143 2| as if our vision has been clouded by spots that we haven't
144 4| desire is like a dye that clouds clear water, making it murky --
145 3| t practice don't have a clue, even though they live enveloped
146 3| on many levels, from the coarse to the refined, and requires
147 2| body lies rotting in its coffin but you won't have changed
148 3| end up rotting in their coffins. Exactly what is appealing
149 4| them as being easeful or comfortable, because that's delusion.
150 1| instability and lack of commitment in training it is what allows
151 4| to anything, there's no commotion in it. It's empty and at
152 3| ebbing away, so you have to compensate by building up more and
153 3| rush around in a turmoil, competing with one another, bragging
154 2| mindfulness and discernment, complacency is the major problem. You
155 3| taking their bait. When they complain about the slightest discomfort,
156 4| if the equanimity isn't complete, don't worry about it. Simply
157 4| an ease of body and mind completely free from entanglement in
158 4| trap us in all kinds of complications. Whatever meditation techniques
159 2| the body is repulsive and composed of physical elements. This
160 4| discernment in probing and comprehending the body and mind. When
161 1| you any trouble. It won't concoct thoughts. It will be quiet.
162 4| drowsiness and lethargy -- a condition of refusing to deal with
163 2| sudden they spring up and confront you: What kind of mindfulness
164 2| regardless of whether we're being confronted with physical and mental
165 1| cravings that lie latent in connection with all feelings. But if
166 3| is its own reward. If you connive with your conceits, you'
167 4| clean, just as when you constantly sweep out your house: If
168 3| still take our pleasure in consuming things. This is why it's
169 2| every way. Or we may have contemplated to some extent, but we haven'
170 4| craving that wants pleasure is contented with it and wants to stay
171 3| breathe isn't just for your convenience and comfort, but for you
172 2| defilement, the mind can cool down. Do this by being increasingly
173 4| approach is just too slow to cope. This method of examining
174 3| that you'll have to keep on correcting your stupidity. ~Reading
175 2| mindfulness and discernment as a counter-fire to put out the blaze of
176 3| and disenchantment is what counts as true knowledge. But if
177 2| the hook, screwing up its courage enough to take just a little,
178 3| The theme of not clinging covers everything from beginning
179 3| which we try to get what we crave. When you understand this,
180 3| of defilement making them crazy and deluded, wanting to
181 3| in this way, they start criticizing the practice as useless
182 3| far-seeing, and meticulous will cross over to the further shore.
183 4| opinions come pouring out, cry, "Stop! Let me finish first!"
184 4| You simply stop, and that cuts the strength of the defilement
185 3| have to follow his example, cutting away worry and concern for
186 3| then you're stuck in the cycle of suffering and stress.
187 3| the mind throughout your daily life has already shown its
188 2| finding them outside. The damaging things people say about
189 3| ever hope to abandon the damp and fermenting desires within
190 4| ignorance, speculation, day-dreaming, taking issue with things,
191 3| onto. What's left is the Deathless. The transcendent. Nibbana.
192 3| through repeated births and deaths in the three levels of existence:
193 3| almost gone after how many decades. Now we've come here to
194 4| practice, you can read and decipher the mind, you'll find your
195 1| read ourselves, continually deciphering things within us. As you
196 2| take the bait." Make a firm declaration! This is the only way to
197 4| keeping your words and deeds at normalcy, too. "Normalcy"
198 4| If you aren't intent on defeating it, there's no way you can
199 1| your activities -- eating, defecating, whatever -- keep the mind
200 4| of liking and disliking defile the mind, making it agitated
201 3| life. Once you have this degree of conviction in yourself,
202 4| level we've attained or what degrees we've earned. We don't have
203 3| attractive things used to delude us into holding on. Realize
204 3| predicament -- but our ignorance deludes us into latching onto all
205 1| then become your point of departure for probing and investigating
206 3| examine our inner diseases in detail and to disband suffering
207 2| and discernment in their determination to get what they're after: "
208 2| out. They're stubborn and determined to stay in charge. If you
209 3| The way your practice has developed through contemplating and
210 2| reports on your special development of mindfulness to read the
211 4| observation. When the mind deviates from its foundation because
212 3| what they are: demons and devils, come to eat your heart
213 2| wild beast rushing in to devour you. What are you going
214 3| follow the principles of the Dhamma-Vinaya -- even though they may
215 | did
216 3| staying here. The only way we differ from living at home is that
217 4| you're now looking from a different angle and have the choice:
218 1| outside -- appearing only to disappear -- so it's not interested.
219 3| stresses and sufferings can be disbanded. ~So keep at this. If you
220 3| and clears and lets go and disbands things inside. But if we
221 2| But if we turn within and discern the deceits and conceits
222 3| live and practice under his discipline is truly the supreme refuge,
223 3| complain about the slightest discomfort, we quickly pander to them
224 4| the true marvel the Buddha discovered and taught to awaken us. ~
225 4| your self. Stop all your discursive thinking and mental fabrications.
226 3| 1970~Today's our day to discuss the practice. ~It's very
227 3| rabid dogs to drive out the disease. The same holds here: If
228 3| feeling of dispassion and disengagement arises and loosens the grip
229 4| aware of it, the mind stops, disengages, and is free. This is a
230 3| mindfulness and discernment feel disgust at the filth of the defilements
231 3| sense more and more how disgusting the filth really is. There'
232 2| feeling of disenchantment and dismay arises, causing us to pity
233 1| knowledge, enabling you to grow dispassionate and let go. The mind will
234 4| Hindrance is irritability and dissatisfaction, and the Hindrance of sloth
235 3| of self. ~There's nothing distant about the further shore,
236 3| and harm of those things distinctly for themselves. For this
237 2| desires and every form of distress. Even though you have come
238 3| thing they won't feel any disturbance and will never have to suffer
239 2| stay in a place with few disturbances, these demons still manage
240 1| because it's not burned, disturbed, or provoked by the defilements.
241 3| has been bitten by a rabid dog: They give him a serum made
242 3| a serum made from rabid dogs to drive out the disease.
243 4| observing the mind when it's dominated by the five Hindrances to
244 2| at all. They're free from doubt, all right, but it's because
245 2| but it's because their doubts have been smothered by delusion.
246 1| neutral at all times until you doze off. When you wake up, the
247 4| playhouse showing a true-to-life drama whose hero, heroine, and
248 2| still manage to tempt and draw you away. Just notice how
249 4| starts spinning out long, drawn out thought-formations.
250 4| will be no remaining long, drawn-out trains of thought about
251 3| come to eat your heart and drink your blood. You've let them
252 3| contact. ~The bombs they drop on people to wipe them out
253 4| and torpor is a state of drowsiness and lethargy -- a condition
254 1| because it's withering and dry in the heat of the defilements,
255 1| stumbling through life is due to the fact that we haven'
256 | during
257 4| be let go so that you can dwell in the aspect of mind devoid
258 4| sensual desire is like a dye that clouds clear water,
259 4| attained or what degrees we've earned. We don't have any of that
260 4| t think of them as being easeful or comfortable, because
261 3| task ultimately becomes easier because the mind no longer
262 3| Buddha's teachings reveal the easiest way to use our discernment
263 1| in all your activities -- eating, defecating, whatever --
264 3| to contemplate cause and effect in this area, we don't make
265 | elsewhere
266 4| until you're thoroughly embroiled: arranging this, adjusting
267 4| would become a Universal Emperor, the Buddha answered, "I
268 1| all times, with special emphasis on using mindfulness to
269 1| attachment. This is what enables you to ferret out the stability
270 1| mention it again as a way of encouraging you to develop a stable
271 | ending
272 4| people, useless chatter, endless news reports. But if you
273 3| practice is one of struggle and endurance. Whoever struggles and endures
274 3| endurance. Whoever struggles and endures will gain victory -- and
275 2| It's like running into an enemy or a wild beast rushing
276 2| wandering out in search of the enjoyment it remembers from past sights,
277 4| intermediate defilements when they enshroud your mind? ~The Hindrance
278 4| mind completely free from entanglement in the defilements. It's
279 3| cut their family ties and entered the Lord Buddha's lineage
280 3| family and relatives by entering his lineage. To live and
281 4| anyone outside -- spirit entities or whatever -- because success
282 3| clue, even though they live enveloped by defilements and stress.
283 3| their power. ~Their power envelops everything in our character,
284 2| mindfulness and discernment aren't equal to the fight, you'll end
285 1| mind will stay neutral, equanimous, just right. If mindfulness
286 3| family and relatives are essential to you. You are alone. You
287 4| craving, and attachment, establishing ourselves in good qualities --
288 3| You no longer hold them in esteem. If you make use of them,
289 2| ourselves. ~To go by our own estimates of how far is enough in
290 4| investigation. Then, even if serious events happen, you'll be able to
291 1| who knows how long. ~Your everyday life is where you can test
292 | everywhere
293 4| the present. This is an excellent way of knowing your own
294 3| issue, because it focuses exclusively on one thing: stress together
295 4| within yourself. ~Don't keep excusing yourself by relying, for
296 1| of things. So instead of exercising restraint outside, at the
297 4| fruitions, and nibbana really exist and really can disband suffering
298 3| deaths in the three levels of existence: sensuality, form, and formlessness.
299 4| We then notice from our experience in the practice: What state
300 3| not a question of being expert about things outside. You
301 1| want to reach the genuine extinguishing of suffering and stress.
302 2| This is the problem we're faced with at every moment. It'
303 1| Mindfulness is the key factor in all of this, keeping
304 3| the moment to develop the faculties of conviction, persistence,
305 3| yourself, your strength will fail you, for if you have only
306 2| for. As for pain, no one falls for it because it's so uncomfortable.
307 1| have to train it until it's familiar with what inner stability
308 2| that -- I won't! However fantastic the object may be, I won'
309 3| and discernment are deep, far-seeing, and meticulous will cross
310 1| can settle down and stand fast. It's not a matter of getting
311 3| away. Before, it was big, fat, and powerful, but now its
312 2| pain because it's hard to fathom and easy to fall for. As
313 4| a time. If you know the features of their arising, you can
314 3| desire. All we know is how to feed on the bait, so we don't
315 3| to abandon the damp and fermenting desires within you that
316 4| about five minutes, and the fierce pain will go away. But watch
317 2| discernment aren't equal to the fight, you'll end up losing your
318 3| have to be brave, to have a fight-to-the-death attitude, and to keep sustaining
319 4| need to be resilient in fighting them off at every moment
320 2| So it's no small matter, figuring out how to bring them under
321 4| Hindrances, including the final pair -- restlessness & anxiety
322 4| out, cry, "Stop! Let me finish first!" This method of calling
323 1| concentration is stable, the fires of passion, aversion, and
324 1| disliking its objects. ~The firmness of your mindfulness is something
325 2| how to fool us, the way a fish is fooled into getting caught
326 3| though it's invisible, it flares up every time there's sensory
327 2| before, with defilement flaring up in a big way. If this
328 3| they're still attached to flavor, still slaves to desire. ~
329 2| to contemplate their own flaws, will keep on the alert
330 2| and blurry way and then flitted off oblivious without having
331 4| thought-formations that keep flowing like a stream of water.
332 2| Just notice how the saliva flows when you come across anything
333 2| Using the Requisites -- food, clothing, shelter, and
334 2| fool us, the way a fish is fooled into getting caught on a
335 2| t do this every day, we forget and get deluded into loving
336 4| yourself in sleep and lazy forgetfulness. All the Hindrances, including
337 3| existence: sensuality, form, and formlessness. But on that further shore
338 4| beginning with morality, which forms the ideal principle for
339 3| you can't help but stride forward without slipping back; but
340 4| taught -- such as the four foundations of mindfulness, the four
341 4| thinking that this bodily frame of suffering is really happiness. ~
342 3| deceived that we end up running frantically all over the place. ~The
343 2| addictions -- you can mount a full-scale campaign and come out winning
344 3| deluded into looking for our fun in the stresses and sufferings
345 3| things and made a lot of fuss, talking about worldly matters: "
346 4| If the mind hasn't yet gained release from feeling --
347 3| supreme worth. It's not just a game you play around with --
348 4| you don't know, you keep gathering things up until you're thoroughly
349 2| lax, but you also have to gauge your strength, for you have
350 2| we can succeed, for we've given in to our own wants for
351 4| still have yet to attain the goal, all because of your stupidity
352 2| When they tempt me to grab this, take a lot of that --
353 3| disengagement arises and loosens the grip of desire. Use mindfulness
354 4| of defilement -- from the gross to the middling and on to
355 2| discernment have to keep growing more and more mature in
356 3| Your pride and conceit have grown thin and weak. It's as when
357 1| and centered. This is your guarantee: If the mind is really stable
358 3| the intelligence not to be gullible will see the stress and
359 2| will become even more of a habit. So you have to use force --
360 2| changed any of your basic habits. ~Those who are scrupulous
361 3| where they were when they hadn't yet started practicing
362 1| like this for the first half hour and then make sure
363 1| in this way repeatedly, hammering at this point over and over
364 4| like having a broom in your hand. Whenever attachment arises,
365 4| gets very strong, we can handle it by using mindfulness
366 2| though these things may have happened long ago, our perceptions
367 4| really understand, it's the hardest. Thus you absolutely have
368 1| state where it is no longer hassled by defilement. ~This in
369 1| way you used to like this, hate that, turn left here, turn
370 1| t go out liking this or hating that. This state will then
371 4| wanderings stop, likes, hatreds -- this knowledge sweeps
372 2| overcome them over the long haul, digging up their roots
373 3| this reason they're not headed for anything low; they won'
374 3| defilements until their heads are spinning, and yet they
375 3| if you want to make any headway. It's not easy to go against
376 4| you're still strong and healthy. ~As for the feelings that
377 4| life by developing a vast heap of perfections. Some people
378 1| s neutral. When the ear hears a sound, it's neutral --
379 2| various stages of insight, are heedful to keep on exploring. They
380 2| end up tumbling head over heels into fire -- for when you
381 3| life is like falling into hell! If you understand the practice
382 3| extremely beneficial in helping us to examine our inner
383 | her
384 4| true-to-life drama whose hero, heroine, and villains --
385 4| true-to-life drama whose hero, heroine, and villains -- which are
386 | herself
387 4| and not-self. This is a high level of discernment, you
388 | himself
389 4| pushing a light switch: If you hit the "on" button, the light
390 3| things used to delude us into holding on. Realize that it won'
391 2| with my striving at the holy life as long as I live!"
392 3| once they had left their homes they cut their family ties
393 2| this by being increasingly honest with yourself, without leaving
394 2| its head. ~If you don't honestly come to your senses, there'
395 3| believing anyone else or hoping for the baits of the world --
396 2| realize that, "These are the hordes of Mara, come to burn and
397 4| realize that they're burning hot every time they arise. If
398 4| constantly sweep out your house: If anything then comes
399 4| of it like this: You're a huge playhouse showing a true-to-life
400 3| is the central issue in human life -- even animals are
401 3| they ingest more will their hunger subside. But soon it comes
402 4| opposite way, because pain hurts. When pains arise as we
403 1| This should give us an idea of how firm our mindfulness
404 4| morality, which forms the ideal principle for protecting
405 2| back to deceive us with ideas of their being good or bad.
406 2| out -- is nothing but an illusion. It's like being adrift,
407 3| able to disband it. Don't imagine that your family and relatives
408 4| wandering around thinking, imagining, taking on all sorts of
409 4| become a turmoil of ceaseless imaginings. So you have to cut off
410 2| the desires for happiness imbued with pleasurable feelings,
411 1| stays centered, neutral, and impartial. Take just this much and
412 3| benefits of the Dhamma, the importance of the practice. Then there
413 1| reactions as the circulation improves and pleasant feelings arise
414 2| that the blatant ones are inactivated because of the mind's solid
415 2| chance to tempt you, to incite you. As when we try to give
416 2| though, the mind will be more inclined to grow still and calm than
417 2| practice may actually only increase their pride, their bragging,
418 2| cool down. Do this by being increasingly honest with yourself, without
419 3| even if anyone offers us incredible wealth, why should we want
420 3| know it, you see that it's indescribable, for it's something entirely
421 1| it's not just oblivious indifference. Make the mind firmly established
422 3| more, for only when they ingest more will their hunger subside.
423 3| reborn on this shore with its innumerable repeated sufferings. ~Once
424 2| defilement and craving to insinuate their way into control.
425 1| stability is like, for your own instability and lack of commitment in
426 4| ability to know such things instantly for himself, Mara was continually
427 2| that's the way of a fool. ~Intelligent people, even though they
428 3| the longing gets really intense, it feels really good to
429 4| ll grow strong and keep intensifying. So we have to stop them
430 4| addiction: If you aren't intent on defeating it, there's
431 4| they're like two people interrupting each other to speak, the
432 4| contact or any opinions that intrude on your awareness. When
433 2| problem is that we haven't investigated into the truth of our own
434 3| inside us? Even though it's invisible, it flares up every time
435 4| ehipassiko -- something you can invite other people to come and
436 3| with ourselves, and instead involve ourselves in all kinds of
437 3| practice out here without any involvements or worldly responsibilities
438 2| investigation penetrates inwardly to ever more subtle levels
439 4| Ill will as a Hindrance is irritability and dissatisfaction, and
440 2| middle of the ocean with no island or shore in sight. Can you
441 1| it's not centered, it can jumble everything up to fool you,
442 1| whatever. ~Mindfulness is the key factor in all of this, keeping
443 2| come out winning without killing yourself in the process.
444 1| from concocting thoughts or labeling things. Everything has to
445 4| go. The moment the mind latches onto anything, make it let
446 1| abandon the cravings that lie latent in connection with all feelings.
447 | later
448 4| burying yourself in sleep and lazy forgetfulness. All the Hindrances,
449 1| circle the post to which its leash is tied. ~Keep training
450 1| delusion and ignorance, and leaves no opening for craving to
451 4| as you stretch out your leg, make sure that the mind
452 4| sufferings. We practice in a leisurely, casual way, and don't know
453 3| and cleans and clears and lets go and disbands things inside.
454 3| you can die only once per lifetime. But the three bombs of
455 2| stresses and pains will lighten. It will be able to see
456 1| when the lotus and water lily bloom after the end of the
457 4| defilement -- each one in the list of sixteen -- is hard to
458 4| I'm speaking and you're listening, just focus your attention
459 3| the further shore. They've lived long enough on this shore
460 2| penetrating because we haven't looked from the angle of true knowing.
461 3| or thinking, be on the lookout for whatever will make you
462 4| feels ease because you've loosened your attachments. This is
463 3| disengagement arises and loosens the grip of desire. Use
464 2| be either a warrior or a loser. The practice requires that
465 1| then meet with him when the lotuses bloom. I've mentioned this
466 2| the desire, lust, and love that provoke the mind into
467 2| forget and get deluded into loving and worrying about the body
468 4| and spread thoughts of loving-kindness. ~The same holds true here:
469 3| not headed for anything low; they won't have to keep
470 3| ready to pull you down to a lower level. If you aren't mindful
471 2| craving" -- the desire, lust, and love that provoke the
472 4| Even right here while I'm speaking and you're listening,
473 3| suffering and stress are the main problems. If you don't really
474 2| discernment, complacency is the major problem. You have to be
475 3| something that anyone -- man or woman -- can realize,
476 3| even though they may have managed only an occasional taste
477 2| you release from the great mass of suffering and stress.
478 1| itself will bring about true mastery over the sense doors. At
479 3| and no other victory can match it. Gaining control over
480 3| which means, "Develop and maximize" -- i.e., make the most
481 1| objects of the senses as meaningless. You won't have to take
482 2| to betel, cigarettes, or meat: It's hard to do because
483 3| people who are addicted to meat-eating are afraid to become vegetarians.
484 3| elements, aggregates, and sense media. Once we know how to strip
485 2| clothing, shelter, and medicine -- every day. We do this
486 1| the Rains Retreat and then meet with him when the lotuses
487 4| present, you fall for your memories or thought-formations. This
488 1| this before and I want to mention it again as a way of encouraging
489 1| the lotuses bloom. I've mentioned this before and I want to
490 1| t be able to burn it or mess with it. In other words,
491 2| t allow it to swell. The methods we need to use in the practice
492 3| are deep, far-seeing, and meticulous will cross over to the further
493 4| from the gross to the middling and on to the subtle --
494 3| born to gain wealth and be millionaires, but that kind of life is
495 4| happens, as soon as you're mindfully aware of it, the mind stops,
496 2| and let go of are only the minor players. The important ones
497 4| that way for about five minutes, and the fierce pain will
498 4| relying, for instance, on the miraculous powers of some object or
499 3| throw yourself down in the mire -- and there who will you
500 2| realizing how deeply we've mired ourselves in suffering and