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501 3| results each time. Whatever mistakes we make in whatever way,
502 2| nothing but pain and yet mistaking it for pleasure. This shows
503 3| This is because of our misunderstandings or wrong views. If we gain
504 3| mind? ~The Buddha answered Mogharaja's question -- "In what way
505 1| stability. Even if there are any momentary slips in your mindfulness,
506 1| mischievous monkey -- yet even monkeys can be caught and trained
507 4| qualities -- beginning with morality, which forms the ideal principle
508 3| the reach of the King of Mortality. But because we don't know
509 | mostly
510 2| up addictions -- you can mount a full-scale campaign and
511 3| practice anywhere! Their mouths aren't in line with their
512 2| defilements in whatever way they move into action. We watch them,
513 1| off. When you wake up, the movements of the mind will still remain
514 1| But if you drive them into mud, they're easily swayed by
515 2| something that you can just muddle your way through. It's something
516 3| training for? It's not all that mysterious or far away, you know. It'
517 4| useless chatter, endless news reports. But if you focus
518 3| going to be released through not-clinging! Any of you who can't comprehend
519 4| infatuated with them. ~So try noticing when the mind is in this
520 3| matter where the monks and nuns came from -- from royal,
521 4| The defilements will grow obedient and won't dare push you
522 2| still a slave to stupidity, obeying the many levels of defilement
523 4| side immediately raising objections before the other side has
524 4| special. Before, the ignorance obscuring the mind caused you wander
525 2| then another. ~If we're not observant to see how much we've been
526 4| using our own powers of observation. When the mind deviates
527 4| after any thoughts that occurred to it, taking up a new thought
528 2| alone in the middle of the ocean with no island or shore
529 3| stresses and sufferings offered by the world. ~Our practice
530 3| longer! -- so even if anyone offers us incredible wealth, why
531 | often
532 3| whenever you want, you're okay. ~When people can't shake
533 3| your discernment crude. The older you grow, the more you have
534 2| shows that we still haven't opened our ears and eyes; we still
535 3| because now that we've ordained we've already made an important
536 3| from royal, wealthy, or ordinary backgrounds -- once they
537 3| down exactly where stress originates, for stress is a result.
538 1| positions, it's simply an outer change in the body, while
539 2| In this way, you won't be overly concerned with trying to
540 2| had the power of demons overwhelming the mind for so long. It'
541 3| with and endure. It's like paddling a boat against the stream --
542 4| Hindrances, including the final pair -- restlessness & anxiety
543 3| slightest discomfort, we quickly pander to them and take the bait
544 3| with you, there you go -- pandering to it as quickly as possible.
545 4| suffering and defilement are paramount issues buried deep in the
546 3| the deeper, more profound parts of the heart -- for if we
547 2| same as when we chant the passage for Recollection while Using
548 4| consider how many lives have passed while you still have yet
549 4| present with its arisings and passings away, there are no great
550 4| in whatever way, don't pay it any attention. Keep being
551 1| be able to grow calm and peaceful, disbanding its defilements,
552 2| So you have to try to peer into yourself until you
553 3| and defilement, to clear penetration of the Common Characteristics
554 | per
555 2| deep, you have to be more perceptive so as to figure out how
556 2| be wary. Suppose you're perfectly aware, and all of a sudden
557 1| be caught and trained to perform tricks. In the same way,
558 1| of the rainy season, the period when the lotus and water
559 2| tears bathe your cheeks, persevere! The practice isn't simply
560 4| and stressful. They arise, persist, and pass away. If you don'
561 4| latch onto? ~When you're persistent in contemplating to see
562 4| natural process of arising, persisting, and passing away. Try to
563 4| sweep out whatever arises, persists, and then passes away. Let
564 2| effluents lie deep in the personality, so you have to use mindfulness
565 1| lotus will wither away, its petals falling to the ground and
566 3| the Buddha taught. ~All phenomena, whether compounded or uncompounded,
567 3| uncompounded, fall under the phrase, "Sabbe dhamma anatta --
568 2| like to give you a further piece of advice: In developing
569 3| the defilements will keep piling up. This is why we have
570 3| over the cliff and into the pit of fire. ~If you aren't
571 3| more things outside seem pitiful and not worth getting engrossed
572 2| dismay arises, causing us to pity ourselves for our own stupidity,
573 3| and so is form, or in even plainer terms, the body is stressful
574 2| go of are only the minor players. The important ones have
575 4| like this: You're a huge playhouse showing a true-to-life drama
576 3| When desire whispers and pleads with you, there you go --
577 4| mind won't stray off to any pleasures or pains, but will let go
578 3| paths and their fruitions -- pledge their lives to the Buddha,
579 2| that this or that level is plenty enough -- for how can it
580 3| path the defilements keep pointing out to us. We grope along
581 4| way, and don't know which points we should correct, where
582 3| the baits of the world are poison. The Dhamma has to be the
583 1| continuous. When anything pops up, no matter how, keep
584 2| know them, and are in a position to abandon them as soon
585 3| ones who dance around are possessed by spirits: the demons of
586 4| watch it at any time, in any posture. True things and false are
587 4| pride and opinions come pouring out, cry, "Stop! Let me
588 3| Before, it was big, fat, and powerful, but now its power is gone.
589 3| For this reason, whoever practices without being complacent
590 2| realizing the fact. If someone praises you, you really prick up
591 4| attachment with more and more precision. ~If, in your practice,
592 3| animals are in the same predicament -- but our ignorance deludes
593 4| can contemplate whatever preoccupies the mind as it continually
594 1| I don't like it. This is pretty; that's ugly." The same
595 2| activities. This way you prevent your mind from straying
596 2| praises you, you really prick up your ears, wag your tail
597 3| and stress are the main problems. If you don't really contemplate
598 3| sort of investigation can proceed on many levels, from the
599 3| principles that the Lord Buddha proclaimed for us to use in our contemplation
600 3| we have to look deeply, profoundly. Then it's simply a matter
601 3| practice of the Dhamma is progressing in the direction of the
602 3| defilement, you need the proper tools and have to make the
603 4| undying Dhamma, the undying property -- free from birth, ageing,
604 3| and probing, and you'll protect yourself from wandering
605 1| stable within itself, you're protected on all sides. When sensory
606 4| the ideal principle for protecting ourselves. Then we can gain
607 4| to use mindfulness as a protective shield and discernment as
608 1| mind at every moment. It protects you from all sorts of things.
609 1| weaken in the face of the provocation of wanting this or wanting
610 1| You'll simply follow the provocations of defilement and craving. ~
611 1| not burned, disturbed, or provoked by the defilements. So make
612 1| craving will create issues, provoking the mind into a turmoil,
613 3| they are always ready to pull you down to a lower level.
614 4| disliking. It's a question of purity in virtue -- just as when
615 4| agitated because craving pushes for a change. It wants us
616 4| the exact opposite. Like pushing a light switch: If you hit
617 1| disbanding the stress, putting out the flames. But you'
618 3| why they're all so very quick. ~When you contemplate how
619 2| way it has to be! Don't quit at the first small difficulty
620 1| for this is the end of the rainy season, the period when
621 2| into fire -- for when you raise your head in pride, you
622 2| feeling of "me" and "mine" raises its head. ~If you don't
623 4| on one side immediately raising objections before the other
624 4| extremely useful, but we're rarely interested in contemplating
625 4| penetrates not-self. ~At any rate, the important point is
626 | rather
627 2| If you fall for whatever rationale they come up with, it means
628 3| didn't know. And so you raved about people and things
629 3| of its peace without yet reaching the paths and their fruitions --
630 1| will be physical and mental reactions as the circulation improves
631 3| When a person submits readily to defilement and craving,
632 2| for pleasure, but once it realizes there's no real pleasure
633 4| letting your sense of self rear its ugly head. ~ ~Think
634 1| right back to your focus, recognizing when the mind is centered
635 2| we chant the passage for Recollection while Using the Requisites --
636 1| to bloom. ~The sense of refreshment bathing the mind that comes
637 4| lethargy -- a condition of refusing to deal with anything at
638 1| you can do this, you'll regard the objects of the senses
639 3| name and form you've been regarding as "me" and "mine" have
640 4| we have gathered for our regular meeting. ~The way we've
641 3| and stress -- and yet they reject it. Instead, they rush around
642 3| how far we're going to be released through not-clinging! Any
643 3| shore and so they make a relentless effort to let go of their
644 3| others. Each has had to relinquish all of his vast wealth instead
645 3| stress, and not-selfness and relinquishing them. This is the right
646 4| keep excusing yourself by relying, for instance, on the miraculous
647 4| yourself, and there will be no remaining long, drawn-out trains of
648 2| search of the enjoyment it remembers from past sights, sounds,
649 2| spots that we haven't yet removed from our eyes. ~Those who
650 4| When a pleasant feeling replaces the pain, the mind will
651 2| ways in which the body is repulsive and composed of physical
652 4| knowing, for it doesn't require that you know a lot of things
653 4| Dhamma is very delicate work, requiring that you use all your mindfulness
654 2| Recollection while Using the Requisites -- food, clothing, shelter,
655 2| become more and more calm and reserved, in the same way that people
656 4| point of becoming adept and resourceful at disbanding our own sufferings.
657 3| involvements or worldly responsibilities helps speed up the practice.
658 3| making us scattered and restless, unable to stay still and
659 3| get back up 100 times and resume your stance. The reason
660 3| Buddha's lineage without ever returning. To return to the home life,
661 3| though the Buddha's teachings reveal the easiest way to use our
662 3| they become, the more their revulsion grows. Before, when our
663 3| will be: This is its own reward. If you connive with your
664 3| aversion, and delusion keep ripping the heart apart countless
665 2| ground where the demons keep roasting us to make us squirm with
666 1| issue to that, from this role to that; but if it's centered,
667 3| you try to trace out its root cause. You have to use your
668 4| you'll find your escape route, following the footsteps
669 3| and nuns came from -- from royal, wealthy, or ordinary backgrounds --
670 1| sensory contact, like a rudderless ship going wherever the
671 3| reject it. Instead, they rush around in a turmoil, competing
672 2| an enemy or a wild beast rushing in to devour you. What are
673 3| already made an important sacrifice. In the Buddha's time, no
674 4| arise. If they have you sad or upset, it's easy to know
675 2| away. Just notice how the saliva flows when you come across
676 3| the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha. They realize that nothing
677 3| back, why do I have to keep satisfying it over and over again?"
678 3| Regardless of what you're doing, saying, or thinking, be on the
679 4| of the defilements that scorch the mind and get it agitated.
680 4| and discernment, we can scrape away our defilements, cravings,
681 2| bait surrounding the hook, screwing up its courage enough to
682 4| of knowing, letting go, scrubbing things clean. When these
683 2| basic habits. ~Those who are scrupulous by nature, who know how
684 4| interested in the practice of searching out and destroying the diseases
685 2| the approach they take to seduce and deceive you. Other people
686 3| refined, and requires that you seek advice so that you don't
687 | seem
688 3| old people everywhere. ~So seize the moment to develop the
689 3| angles, you gain more precise self-knowledge each step along the way.
690 3| wandering of the mind. It means self-restraint and training in many, many
691 1| s time he would have the senior monks train the new monks
692 1| concocting the same old senseless issues over and over again.
693 2| have to take stock of your sensitivities to figure out why. Otherwise,
694 3| yourself. The greater your sensitivity, the stronger your mindfulness
695 4| you first have to practice separating feelings from the mind while
696 3| rabid dog: They give him a serum made from rabid dogs to
697 1| will stir up the mind and set it wandering. This is because
698 1| six sense doors and then settled ourselves in neutrality
699 2| Requisites -- food, clothing, shelter, and medicine -- every day.
700 4| mindfulness as a protective shield and discernment as our weapon
701 1| contact, like a rudderless ship going wherever the wind
702 3| consciousness is stressful -- in short, name is stressful and so
703 4| You're a huge playhouse showing a true-to-life drama whose
704 3| your daily life has already shown its rewards to some extent,
705 3| desires to stand out will shrink out of sight, never daring
706 3| sense of self will start to shrivel away. Before, it was big,
707 2| keep on the alert for any signs of pride within themselves.
708 2| people, "I practiced in silence for so many days, so many
709 2| they won't let you stay silent. ~If you force yourself
710 4| suffering and stress. It's the simplest way to gain release, but
711 1| we've closed five of the six sense doors and then settled
712 4| like this until you become skilled at it, and the mind won'
713 2| time letting it grow too slack. Find the Middle Way that'
714 4| When you want to stop, just slam on the brakes and you stop
715 3| attachment, stabbing you, slapping you, beating you. ~The more
716 3| attached to flavor, still slaves to desire. ~If you can't
717 2| sorts of tricks up their sleeves. If you get wise to one
718 3| for whatever will make you slip, for if you're tenacious
719 1| there are any momentary slips in your mindfulness, you
720 4| dissatisfaction, and the Hindrance of sloth and torpor is a state of
721 4| t underestimate even the smallest things. Use your mindfulness
722 3| What we do know is just a smattering, and so we play truant,
723 1| ear may hear, the nose may smell, the tongue may taste, or
724 1| cravings, and attachments smoldering in the mind -- things we'
725 2| because their doubts have been smothered by delusion. If we start
726 4| a tiger or poisonous snake -- with no means of escape.
727 1| stop. Keep this foundation snug and stable with every in-and-out
728 1| that would otherwise get it soiled and worked up, it can withstand
729 3| them, for you're concerned solely with penetrating yourself
730 1| do or say, the mind stays solidly in its normal state of inward
731 | someone
732 3| realize that this is the source of the most vicious sufferings
733 2| t come from thinking and speculating. It comes from investigating
734 4| affairs of ignorance, speculation, day-dreaming, taking issue
735 3| worldly responsibilities helps speed up the practice. It's extremely
736 4| and discernment break the spell by seeing that there's no
737 4| caused you wander about spellbound by sights, sounds, and so
738 4| won't know them -- for you spend all your time studying outside,
739 4| about anyone outside -- spirit entities or whatever --
740 3| around are possessed by spirits: the demons of defilement
741 4| defilements slipping in to spoil things, cloaking the mind
742 3| clinging. The Lord Buddha once spoke of the past as below, the
743 2| vision has been clouded by spots that we haven't yet removed
744 4| stop, totally still, and spread thoughts of loving-kindness. ~
745 2| and all of a sudden they spring up and confront you: What
746 3| craving, and attachment, stabbing you, slapping you, beating
747 2| have attained the various stages of insight, are heedful
748 2| have a good look at them, starting with the body. Analyze the
749 4| whenever it gets engrossed and starts spinning out long, drawn
750 3| complacent? Your life is steadily ebbing away, so you have
751 3| to some extent, so keep stepping up your efforts. Don't let
752 1| and give it a taste of the stick, it'll be very hard to tame. ~
753 1| within are all brought to stillness in every way. ~This training
754 1| create any issues that will stir up the mind and set it wandering.
755 1| then the mind will get stirred up whenever there's sensory
756 3| on ingesting sensuality, stirring up the mind, but don't see
757 4| each have to find special strategies in reading ourselves so
758 4| all times. The mind won't stray off to any pleasures or
759 4| to see the inconstancy, stressfulness, and not-selfness of the
760 4| moment comes. Then as you stretch out your leg, make sure
761 3| yourself, you can't help but stride forward without slipping
762 3| So isn't it worthwhile to strive for release? After all,
763 2| but I'll keep on with my striving at the holy life as long
764 4| you spend all your time studying outside, the things of the
765 3| advice so that you don't stumble. Otherwise, you may think
766 1| place. The way we've been stumbling through life is due to the
767 1| whichever of the many meditation subjects you choose, you stay mindful
768 4| cross-examining the defilements. Don't submit to them easily. You have
769 3| and bad. ~When a person submits readily to defilement and
770 2| that you can eliminate the subtlest ones: ignorance and delusion.
771 1| look right in, deeply and subtly. ~The important point is
772 2| lax, there's no way we can succeed, for we've given in to our
773 4| entities or whatever -- because success in the practice lies right
774 4| you might say it's like suddenly running into a dangerous
775 3| unworthy of attachment. This summarizes everything, including our
776 3| attachment." This is the ultimate summary of all that the Buddha taught. ~
777 4| and stress. It's called "suñño" -- empty -- because it'
778 3| keep constant and close supervision over the senses, and that
779 2| eyes, you have to be wary. Suppose you're perfectly aware,
780 2| caught on a hook by the bait surrounding the hook, screwing up its
781 3| contemplate and instead keep swallowing the bait. We get our pleasure
782 1| into mud, they're easily swayed by the slightest contact.
783 3| And if you're living with sweet-talking sycophants, you'll go even
784 2| side and won't allow it to swell. The methods we need to
785 3| good and bad things -- gets swept away. You don't have to
786 4| opposite. Like pushing a light switch: If you hit the "on" button,
787 1| everything up to fool you, switching from this issue to that,
788 3| living with sweet-talking sycophants, you'll go even further
789 2| prick up your ears, wag your tail and, instead of explaining
790 1| right at the mind. This takes care of everything. Whatever
791 4| complications. Whatever meditation techniques we tried weren't really
792 2| they grow from children to teenagers and into adults. Your mindfulness
793 2| because craving is always tempting us. "Take just a little,"
794 3| the world. No matter who tempts you to go with them, you
795 3| you slip, for if you're tenacious in sustaining mindfulness,
796 3| be more present than your tendency to drift off elsewhere.
797 4| activities, because the mind tends to get engrossed with pleasant
798 2| they all come under the term, "sensual craving" -- the
799 3| away. What could be more terrifying than the fuel burning inside
800 3| to sweep away. Are they thinning out? When they make an appearance,
801 1| to get all entangled with thought-concoctions, with things that arise
802 3| form, feeling, perception, thought-formation, or consciousness at all. ~
803 3| trust the defilements is to throw yourself down in the mire --
804 1| trained, but if you don't tie it to the post of mindfulness
805 3| homes they cut their family ties and entered the Lord Buddha'
806 4| into a dangerous beast -- a tiger or poisonous snake -- with
807 4| know for yourself. It's timeless: No matter what the time
808 3| don't notice how much this tires you out, don't realize that
809 3| and then, a moment later, tiring of it and wanting something
810 3| start, and then you try to trace out its root cause. You
811 4| the defilements in their tracks, for if we don't, they'll
812 4| remaining long, drawn-out trains of thought about past or
813 2| really want something, they trample all over your mindfulness
814 3| that comes when the mind is tranquil. If you let yourself get
815 4| just aim at the pleasure of tranquility. Sit and watch the sensations
816 4| one, spinning its webs to trap us in all kinds of complications.
817 4| know. You don't have to travel far to do it. You can watch
818 2| Actually, pleasure is more treacherous than pain because it's hard
819 4| the same way you would in treating an addiction: If you aren'
820 2| If you get wise to one trick, they simply change to another,
821 4| distractions. Desire is a big troublemaker here, and so is distraction.
822 3| will put an end to your troubles, or at least help your sufferings
823 3| smattering, and so we play truant, abandoning the task, and
824 4| huge playhouse showing a true-to-life drama whose hero, heroine,
825 2| be overly concerned with trying to change the pains, for
826 2| way you go, you'll end up tumbling head over heels into fire --
827 4| even when they're like two people interrupting each
828 3| under control, then the task ultimately becomes easier because the
829 4| become empty, unentangled, unattached. Then keep watch over the
830 4| mind aware of this state of unattachment within itself: If it doesn'
831 4| craving. If the pain is so unbearable that you have to change
832 4| and death. It's called Unbinding, Emptiness, the Unconditioned:
833 4| restlessness & anxiety and uncertainty -- cloak the mind in darkness.
834 2| falls for it because it's so uncomfortable. So how are we going to
835 4| Unbinding, Emptiness, the Unconditioned: These names all mean the
836 3| Buddha-to-be has had to undergo suffering in the world for
837 1| part of the peace of mind undisturbed by defilement will arise
838 4| grow still to become empty, unentangled, unattached. Then keep watch
839 1| instead on the neutral, uninvolved centeredness of the mind.
840 4| seven days he would become a Universal Emperor, the Buddha answered, "
841 2| cravings that provoke and unsettle the mind come down to nothing
842 2| them, they make the mind unsettled and defiled. ~So it isn'
843 3| middle. He also said that unskillful qualities are below, skillful
844 3| if you waver and wander, unsure of whether or not to keep
845 3| against the flow, to go upstream against suffering and stress,
846 2| Today we are meeting as usual. ~From what I've seen of
847 3| defilements, they'll make you vacillate. And if you're living with
848 3| t want us to be weak and vacillating, always making excuses for
849 2| clearly. We've seen only in a vague and blurry way and then
850 3| meat-eating are afraid to become vegetarians. Why? Because they're still
851 3| is the source of the most vicious sufferings that deceive
852 3| misunderstandings or wrong views. If we gain Right View,
853 4| whose hero, heroine, and villains -- which are conventional
854 4| accumulate so many, many virtues -- but what about you? You
855 3| all over the place. ~The virulent diseases in the mind are
856 2| years now. It's as if our vision has been clouded by spots
857 2| Sometimes you have to make a vow as a way of forcing yourself
858 2| really prick up your ears, wag your tail and, instead of
859 4| powers of some object or waiting to build up the perfections.
860 1| until you doze off. When you wake up, the movements of the
861 3| that's who -- because it wanted to brag about how much it
862 2| to decide to be either a warrior or a loser. The practice
863 2| your eyes, you have to be wary. Suppose you're perfectly
864 3| inside. The more you can wash away these things, the more
865 3| release from the world. He wasn't out after personal comfort
866 2| with the thought, "It's a waste of time. I'd do better to
867 1| centered, immovable, no longer wavering, no longer weak, then the
868 1| going wherever the wind and waves will take it. This is why
869 3| out to us. We grope along weakly, making it harder and harder
870 3| came from -- from royal, wealthy, or ordinary backgrounds --
871 4| shield and discernment as our weapon to cut through and destroy
872 4| sinker, with no sense of weariness or dispassion at all. If
873 3| me" and "mine" have been wearing down and falling apart continually.
874 4| an old one, spinning its webs to trap us in all kinds
875 | wherever
876 1| important point is that, whichever of the many meditation subjects
877 3| one another and to keep whirling around in suffering and
878 3| blatant baits. When desire whispers and pleads with you, there
879 2| running into an enemy or a wild beast rushing in to devour
880 2| out winning. If you don't win, you don't give up. Sometimes
881 1| ship going wherever the wind and waves will take it.
882 1| pilings of a dam can withstand windstorms without budging. You have
883 1| and "them" is totally wiped out, cut away. The mind
884 3| go all the way through, wiping out stupidity and delusion
885 1| we don't, the lotus will wither away, its petals falling
886 1| yet, that's because it's withering and dry in the heat of the
887 3| something that anyone -- man or woman -- can realize, something
888 4| immediately. The same principle works with the mind. You'll notice
889 3| situation. They're like worms that live in filth and are
890 2| deluded into loving and worrying about the body as "my body," "
891 2| eventually find yourself worse off than before, with defilement
892 3| and stress. So isn't it worthwhile to strive for release? After
893 4| is thus something really worthy of interest. If you're not
894 | yourselves