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  2. The Wisdom of Self-regulation
     … This is why the Buddha talks about the path as being a middle way where the voices in your mind, the imperatives that you tell yourself, are wise and they’re just right. They get the results you want. That’s how you know that things are balanced and that you really are following the middle way. You tell the mind to settle down … 
  3. Three Levels of Evaluation
     … Say there’s a sense of ease and wellbeing in the middle of the chest: How do you maintain that ease and wellbeing? What way do you breathe? How do you adjust your breath so as to maintain that sense all way through the in-breath, all the way through the out? Once you can do that, how do you let that sense of … 
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  4. Intelligence of the Heart
     … That’s something that’s good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end—something that’s intelligent all the way through.
  5. Smoothing It
     … There are people who say that because the Buddha said that the middle way is a middle way between self-torture and self-indulgence, you shouldn’t try to inflict any pain on yourself at all. But that’s ignoring huge parts of the Canon where the Buddha says it’s really going to depend on the individuals how much pain they have to … 
  6. Faith in the Buddha’s Awakening
     … Remember that famous passage where King Pasenadi comes to see the Buddha in the middle of the day, and the Buddha asks him: “Where are you coming from in the middle of the day?” The king is very frank, unusually frank for a politician. He says, “I’ve been spending my time obsessed with the things that people obsessed with power are usually obsessed … 
  7. The Skill of Not Suffering
     … It’s like lying on your back out in the middle of a big field. If you look up in the sky and there’s nothing on the ground that you can compare things to, you look at the clouds you don’t know what they’re doing. Which clouds are staying still, which clouds are moving, you can’t really tell, because there … 
  8. Remembering Luang Loong
     … As the Buddha said, this road is good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end. It’s good all along the way. It’s a good path to be on. So we can take encouragement from the people who’ve been on the path ahead of us, and we want to give good examples to the people who come behind … 
  9. Book search result icon Food for Thought Food for the Mind
     … In the same way, intelligent people who want the inner quality of dispassion have to take the discernment that comes from concentration and use it to evaluate sights, sounds, smells, tastes, etc., so that these things can serve a purpose and not do them any harm. Whoever eats an entire fish—bones, scales, fins, feces, and all—is sure to choke to death on … 
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  10. Alone at Death, but Not Lonely
     … what’s causing us to act in ways in the present moment that are causing suffering now and on into the future. After all, it’s our intentions that shape our life. Where do intentions happen? They happen right here, right now. All too often, they’re relegated down to the middle-level bureaucracy in the mind. It’s as if you were the … 
  11. Motivation
     … You dawdled through the practice saying, “Well, I’ll put it off till tomorrow and I won’t push myself too hard.” As Ajaan Maha Boowa says, for many of us, the middle way is right in the middle of the pillow. So you don’t want that regret. That’s one way of stirring up a sense of desire: realizing there are dangers … 
  12. Pleasure on the Path
    When the Buddha first described his path, he called it a middle way between two extremes: indulgence in sensual pleasures on the one hand, and self-affliction on the other. This has led a lot of people to think that the path is kind of a neutral mind state, not all that pleasant, but not all that painful. That’s not the case. An … 
  13. Book search result icon Non-violence 6 : Developing Goodwill
     … difficulty, in the same way, when the awareness-release through equanimity is thus developed, thus pursued, any deed done to a limited extent no longer remains there, no longer stays there.” — SN 42:8 §47. Think: Happy, at rest, may all beings be happy at heart. Whatever beings there may be, weak or strong, without exception, long, large, middling, short, subtle, blatant, seen & unseen … 
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  14. Issues of Control
     … In the same way, as we deal with our aggregates—form, feelings, perceptions, thought fabrications, consciousness—there are unskillful ways of trying to control them and there are skillful ways. You can actually turn them into the path. All five aggregates, for instance, are involved in concentration. Form, of course, would be the breath. Think of the breath going through the whole body. Feeling … 
  15. Duties in the Present
     … The more consistently you can allow them just to be—all the way through the in-breath, all the way through the out-—the more you find a sense of rapture developing, a sense of ease, fullness, refreshment. This is called developing your inner resources for the sake of alertness, for the sake of mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. That’s one of our duties … 
  16. Book search result icon Purity of Heart Reconciliation, Right & Wrong
     … The Buddha noted that neither extreme was effective in putting an end to suffering, so he found a pragmatic Middle Way between them: Right and wrong were determined by what actually did and didn’t work in putting an end to suffering. The public proof of this Middle Way was the Sangha that the Buddha built around it, in which people agreed to follow … 
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  17. Taking Responsibility
     … is why, as the Buddha said, if you were to make a comparison with the way beings are born, it’s like throwing a stick up in the air: Sometimes it lands on this end, sometimes it lands on that end, sometimes it comes down smack in the middle. In other words, there’s no progress, there’s no purpose. It’s just wherever … 
  18. The Big Picture
     … Sometimes it would land on this end, sometimes it would land on that end, sometimes splat in the middle. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason. Then he had the second vision of the night in which he posed the question, “What is it that determines these ups and downs, the this end or that end or the splat in the middle?” He … 
  19. To Begin the Day
     … You hope that they’ll act in a skillful way, again for their sake as well as for yours. But you realize that your primary responsibility is your actions, so you have to protect your goodwill. There’s an image in the Canon of a mother protecting her child. Sometimes it’s misinterpreted as saying you should protect all beings in the same way … 
  20. Expanding Your Awareness
     … So one way that you can show goodwill to all beings and really help them to be happy is to sit here and practice, to work on your mind. Another way of expanding your awareness is to keep expanding it through the body as you work with the breath energy in the body. You get a sense of comfort from the way you breathe … 
  21. Choosing Freedom
     … But holding that perception allows you to work with the energy in the body in ways you might not have been able to do if you had other perceptions. You can think of the breath energy coming in. Ajaan Fuang would often talk about there being kind of a line running down through the body, from the middle of the head, down through the … 
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