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  1 1|         fools itself. If you aren't skillful in investigating
  2 1|        Mindfulness on its own won't be able to give rise to
  3 1|       sensory contact. If you don't make a focused contemplation,
  4 1|       contemplation, the mind won't be able to give rise to
  5 1|           this means the mind won't give rise to any unwise
  6 1|          and illusory. If you don't make an effort to keep a
  7 1|          In other words, it doesn't know what's what -- how
  8 1|           many levels. If you don't stop to focus and watch,
  9 1|       knows and lets go. It doesn't cling. No matter what appears --
 10 1|          the mind knows, it doesn't cling. When it doesn't cling,
 11 1|      doesn't cling. When it doesn't cling, there's no stress
 12 1|         this point: When it doesn't cling, the mind can stay
 13 1|        and still. But if it doesn't read itself in this way,
 14 1|         itself in this way, doesn't know itself in this way,
 15 1|      itself. The fact that it isn't acquainted with itself --
 16 1|   acquainted with itself -- doesn't know how mental states arise
 17 1|           sort of thing -- it isn't interested, because it's
 18 1|           or that matter, you won't be able to know them for
 19 1|          would read the heart can't break through to know, for
 20 1|    disbanding. But because we don't see things simply as natural
 21 1|       what to let go of -- we don't know. When we don't know,
 22 1|           don't know. When we don't know, we're like a person
 23 1|           into a jungle and doesn't know the way out, doesn'
 24 1|           know the way out, doesn't know what to do.... ~Actually
 25 1|         meanings so that it doesn't know the characteristics
 26 1|        and of itself -- there won't be any issues. There's just
 27 1|        yourself every moment. Don't let your awareness stream
 28 1|            Even if the mind doesn't stop completely, it will
 29 1|       Focusing on many things won't do. Keep mindfulness in
 30 1|    stopping, knowing, seeing. Don't let it run out after thoughts
 31 2|          the details, and yet don't develop any dispassion or
 32 2|           passing fancy. It doesn't sink in. The mind keeps
 33 2|           can perform surgery don't reach any transcendent attainments
 34 2|           body and mind there won't be too much clinging. If
 35 2|          much clinging. If we don't, our attachments will be
 36 2|            one at a time. You don't have to take on all five,
 37 2| contemplate these things, you won't be deluded into regarding
 38 2|          purely earth they wouldn't last, because every part
 39 2|        all us and ours. If we don't contemplate to see these
 40 2|     simply ensure that you wouldn't know a thing. But our inner
 41 2|     ignorance and delusion, doesn't like examining itself repeatedly.
 42 2|        attached. So when it doesn't really know itself, you
 43 2|         the things within it aren't you or yours. Don't let
 44 2|          aren't you or yours. Don't let the mind stop short
 45 2|       yourself. If the mind doesn't know the truths of inconstancy,
 46 2|    not-self within itself, it won't gain release from suffering.
 47 2|     follow a worldly path. It won't reach the paths and fruition
 48 2|          transcendent. If you don't get down to their details,
 49 3| practicing the Dhamma, if you don't foster a balance between
 50 3|      paired with discernment. Don't let there be too much of
 51 3| discernment or stillness, you can't let go. The mind may come
 52 3|        the Middle Way. If you don't use your powers of observation,
 53 3|           wrong, because it doesn't observe what's going on.
 54 3|         what's going on. This isn't the path to letting go.
 55 3|          up on things. If you don't know what it's stuck and
 56 4|   stressful, so that the mind won't go and get engrossed in
 57 4|     Simply make sure that you don't get attached to the absorption. ~
 58 4|        insights you may gain, don't go thinking that you've
 59 4|           every now and then, don't just stop there -- and don'
 60 4|        just stop there -- and don't get excited about the fact
 61 5|   illusory on many levels. We don't realize that they're changeable
 62 5|         struggle because it doesn't like pain. But when pain
 63 5|          ours. But the mind doesn't see this. All it sees are
 64 5|          deceived, because we don't see feeling as inconstant.
 65 5|     constant. As for pain, we don't want it to be constant,
 66 5|           the feeling. If you don't focus here, the other paths
 67 5|        what the level. If you don't contemplate so as to see
 68 5|       feeling and craving. We can't separate them out. We can'
 69 5|         separate them out. We can't wash them off. If we don'
 70 5|          wash them off. If we don't grow weary of craving, we'
 71 5|         let go. Otherwise, we won't know anything, for all we
 72 5|         hard to wash out. ~So don't let yourself get carried
 73 6|      inside yourself. If you aren't quiet, you'll become involved
 74 6|        thinking anything that isn't necessary. That way your
 75 6|         develop continuously. Don't let yourself get involved
 76 6|         established, the mind won't waver. If it's not yet firm,
 77 6|           slightest wavering. Don't let yourself think that
 78 6|     really try to be careful. Don't get entangled in sensory
 79 6|         quiet in a way that doesn't let the mind become attached
 80 6|        and push them away, so don't let the mind love pleasure
 81 6|          for all, so that you won't latch onto physical pain
 82 6|         you or yours. ~If you don't release your grasp on feeling,
 83 6|           how to let them go. Don't fool yourself into relishing
 84 6|  relishing them. As for pain, don't push it away. Let pain simply
 85 6|         category of feelings. Don't go thinking that you feel
 86 6|           and death come, you won't latch onto them thinking
 87 6|           and not-self -- you won't enter into them and latch
 88 6|         me" or "mine." If you don't analyze them in this way,
 89 6|  ourselves aware that death doesn't mean that we die. You have
 90 6|        any self. That way you won't latch onto them. The fact
 91 6|         them shows that you haven't really seen into their inconstancy,
 92 6|        bones of animals, they don't have much meaning, but when
 93 6|          of the body, and you don't see clear through it, you'
 94 6|     skeleton. And since you haven't seen through it, it can
 95 6|         This shows that you haven't penetrated into the Dhamma.
 96 6|           shell because you haven't analyzed things into their
 97 6|     decays bit by bit, but we don't realize it. Only after it'
 98 6|           quietly inside, we aren't aware of it. ~As a result,
 99 6|        something we sense. We don't see these things as elements.
100 6|  sensations, and all. This we don't realize, which is why we
101 6|      illness or death. If you don't penetrate into things this
102 6|          that shows that we haven't yet seen the Dhamma. We'
103 6|        many, many levels. You can't see through even these conventions,
104 6|          these things. If you can't contemplate so as to empty
105 6|           and as a result you can't find any way out. ~So you
106 6|           a coarse weave, you won't catch much of anything.
107 6|         our very eyes. If you can't catch sight of the deceits
108 6|           self, your practice won't lead to release from suffering.
109 7|          subtle. Before, you didn't know, so you took your views
110 7|        actually these things aren't real knowledge. They're
111 7|          gets bad, because we don't know that we've got ourselves
112 7|           awareness goes out, don't follow it out. Stop and
113 7|         to be wise to it. You can't forbid it, for it's something
114 7|          natural, and you shouldn't try to close off the mind
115 7|         more skillful. If you don't practice in this way, the
116 7|         know all about it and don't have to develop it any further.
117 8|           see inside yourself isn't easy, but it's something
118 8|         do these things, it doesn't mean that you "get" anything,
119 8|        empty, that means it doesn't gain anything at all. But
120 8|         words for those who haven't experienced it: In what
121 8|         know that emptiness doesn't mean that the mind is annihilated.
122 8|         and read itself. Just don't label it or latch onto it,
123 8|           heard about before, don't get excited. Don't label
124 8|            don't get excited. Don't label it as this or that
125 8|         to look further into. Don't label it as this or that
126 8|     things clear through, you don't. You stop there and don'
127 8|            You stop there and don't go any further. For this
128 9|          hold of anything, we don't play along. We let go. Just
129 9|    defilements, because if we don't put the heat on them, they
130 9|      imprison them. When they can't go anywhere, they're sure
131 9|          sure to complain: "I can't take it! I'm not free to
132 9|          to your defilements, isn't easy at all -- and yet it
133 9|           all -- and yet it doesn't lie beyond your discernment
134 9|       defilement, it'll stop. Don't think that you can't make
135 9|          Don't think that you can't make it stop. You can make
136 9|           with them, and they won't stay. They'll disband. As
137 9|        they are. Before, you didn't know. As soon as they urged
138 9|      disband. Even though you don't disband them, they disband