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  2. More than Just Letting Go
     … It may be built into the way you’re acting, but it can be removed from the way you act. And tackling that kind of suffering is an area where you can make a difference. That’s where the Buddha focused. He didn’t take on all the suffering in the world—which is another misconception you hear around: that the Buddha said he … 
  3. Book search result icon Training the Saṅgha | Noble Warrior : A Life of the Buddha
     … We go that way.” And for a third time, the Blessed One said, “This, Nāgasamāla, is the route. We go this way.” Then Ven. Nāgasamāla, placing the Blessed One’s bowl & robes right there on the ground, left, saying, “This, Lord Blessed One, is the bowl & robes.” Then as Ven. Nāgasamāla was going along that route, thieves—jumping out in the middle of the … 
  4. Sutta search result icon Sn 3:6  Sabhiya
     … He is called awakened.”6 Then Sabhiya the wanderer—delighting in and approving of the Blessed One’s words—gratified, joyful, exultant, enraptured & happy, asked the Blessed One a further question: “Having attained what is one said to be a brahman? In what way is one a contemplative, and how is one ‘washed’? How is one called a nāga? Answer, Blessed One, when I … 
  5. Three Levels of Effort
     … Stay with them all the way through the in-breath, all the way through the out-. This is where mindfulness gets developed because you have to keep remembering you’re going to stay right here with the sensation of the breathing. You’re not going to allow yourself to slip off. If you do slip off, then as soon as you notice it, come … 
  6. Book search result icon At the Tip of Your Nose | Starting Out Small : A Collection of Talks for Beginning Meditators
     … Either his buffalo will get bogged down or else he’ll trip over the bag and fall flat on his face right there in the middle of the field. The field will never get plowed, the rice will never get sown, the crop will never get gathered. He’ll have to go hungry. This is the way our practice of the Dhamma tends to … 
  7. Book search result icon Freedom from Fear | The Karma of Questions
     … If we don’t see them clearly, don’t take them to heart, and don’t try to find a way out, there’s no way we can put an end to what causes our fears. Just like the deer: if it’s complacent about the hunter’s headlights, it’s going to end up strapped to the fender for sure. So to genuinely … 
  8. Book search result icon Giving Care | Undaunted
     … This message was aimed directly at the monks—on the grounds that they had no family to attend to them, so they should care for one another—but it’s phrased in such a way that the message applies indirectly to lay people as well: When you belong to a family, you’re duty-bound to look after the aged, ill, or dying members … 
  9. Book search result icon Pain | Good Heart, Good Mind
     … The first thing that you have to understand about pain is that some of it comes from your actions in the past—such as the way you’ve been using your body, the way you’ve been feeding it, the extent to which you have or haven’t been exercising it—but some of the causes for the pain are things you’re doing … 
  10. Book search result icon III: The Basic Factors | The Wings to Awakening
     … And you, monks, are very helpful to brahmans & householders, as you teach them the Dhamma admirable in the beginning, admirable in the middle, & admirable in the end, as you expound the holy life both in letter & meaning, entirely complete, surpassingly pure. In this way the holy life is lived in mutual dependence, for the purpose of crossing over the flood, for making a right … 
  11. Fabrication at the Breath
     … There’s the way the energy flows in your body when you’re angry, as opposed to the way it flows when you’re feeling lust, or how it flows when you’re feeling fear. There are the thoughts that contribute to that particular emotion. The way you evaluate the situation around you: That’s contributing to your emotion. And the feelings and perceptions … 
  12. Book search result icon Community Transactions | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
     … Other issues are problems that have to be settled in a formal way. Duty-issues, however, are formal ways of settling problems. They themselves, as Community transactions, are problems only in the sense that they have to be conducted strictly according to the correct formal pattern. If they aren’t, they are invalid, open to question, and have to be conducted again. When a … 
  13. Sutta search result icon Introduction to the Dhammapada
     … between heedless and heedful ways of living, and ends with the final attainment of total mastery. On the other hand, the plot must not show smooth, systematic progress; otherwise the work would turn into a treatise. There must be reversals and diversions to maintain interest. This principle is at work in the fairly unsystematic ordering of the Dhammapada’s middle sections. Verses dealing with … 
  14. Book search result icon Basic Principles | Karma Q &A
     … Sometimes it lands on its base, sometimes on its tip, sometimes smack on its middle. We’re slippery characters, changing roles all the time [§41]. 20. As a summary, what would be a good way to teach children some healthy lessons about kamma? You might try the lessons the Buddha gave to his own son, Rāhula [§42]. First he taught Rāhula how important it … 
  15. The Power to Transcend Suffering
     … Learn to open your mind to other ways of conceiving and perceiving the breath. Ajaan Lee talks about the breath coming in and out of the back of the skull, in and out the middle of the chest, lots of different spots in the body. Allow yourself to conceive the breath in that way and see what happens to your experience of breathing as … 
  16. Book search result icon The Art of Letting Go | Starting Out Small : A Collection of Talks for Beginning Meditators
     … This is the way it is with us; this is the way it is with other people. When you see the truth in this way, the mind gives rise to disenchantment because it sees clearly that every thing of every sort simply arises and changes, and when it changes it disbands. The mind can let go and stay neutral, and the path arises. The … 
  17. Sutta search result icon MN 108  Gopaka Moggallāna Sutta | Moggallāna the Guardsman
     … Ānanda: “Master Ānanda, is there any one monk endowed in each & every way with the qualities with which Master Gotama—worthy & rightly self-awakened—was endowed?” “No, brahman, there isn’t any one monk endowed in each & every way with the qualities with which the Blessed One—worthy & rightly self-awakened—was endowed. For the Blessed One was the arouser of the unarisen path … 
  18. Book search result icon As the Mind Turns | Inner Strength & Parting Gifts: Talks by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo
     … Another fetter is uncertainty—doubts and hesitation, running back and forth, not knowing which way to go and ending up spinning around along with the world. Once we know the ways of the body and mind, we’ll be released from these fetters. The mind will gain release from the body and shed the fermentations of defilement. This is called knowledge of the end … 
  19. The Four Bases of Success | ePublished Dhamma Talks : Volume II
     … That required an act of imagination, not only in memory but also in coming up with that particular memory and deciding that he wanted to try that approach next—realizing that it was the middle way between two extremes. He’d been thinking only in extremes. And all too often, when we’re faced with issues coming up in the meditation, we tend to … 
  20. Book search result icon Old Age | Noble Warrior : A Life of the Buddha
     … There are now monk disciples of mine of middle standing. There are now junior monk disciples of mine. There are now elder nun disciples of mine… nun disciples of mine of middle standing… junior nun disciples of mine… male lay disciples of mine, householders wearing white, following the celibate life… male lay disciples of mine, householders wearing white, partaking of sensuality… female lay disciples … 
  21. Book search result icon A Healthy Understanding of Kamma | The Karma of Mindfulness : The Buddha’s Teachings on Sati and Kamma
     … In this way, the Buddha finds a middle way that allows for freedom within the patterns of cause and effect in our actions. In fact, these interacting patterns form the basic metaphysical principle on the nature of causality that the Buddha discovered in the course of his awakening. Together they form the fourth metaphysical implication of a healthy psychological attitude toward actions: that actions … 
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