…for only good and useful thoughts to come into your mind. The purpose of the three characteristics is to keep you from getting complacent. They help foster heedfulness, so that your standards for judging your actions stay high. In judging…
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…when our self–identity is hurt or threatened. Hopefully becoming aware of our selfishness doesn’t become an additional reason to be angry. Such self– understanding is meant to be a step toward freedom and greater self–compassion. The E in the acronym…
…way, we can then examine our relationship to the anger. We can ask ourselves: Do I want to be angry? Do I want to allow the anger to provoke and motivate me? If what we want is freedom, then our…
…as ‘wipassana’)- has two parts to it, the ‘vi’ part, and the ‘passana’ part. ‘Passana’ means ‘seeing clearly’ and ‘vi’ means something like ‘various things’. The commentaries say that the ‘various things’ that you see clearly are: impermanence, suffering and…
…ease, more compassionate, and more supportive of the values that we want to live by. I will give an example of looking at that place of choice. It is an example I have given before. One day I was coming…
…formal walking meditation, find a pathway about 30 to 40 feet long, and simply walk back and forth. When you come to the end of your path, come to a full stop, turn around, stop again, and then start again….
…much taste for it. To do formal walking meditation, find a pathway about 30 to 40 feet long, and simply walk back and forth. When you come to the end of your path, come to a full stop, turn around,…
…path, my capacity for compassion continued to increase. As I practiced Vipassana, I found that my heart was freed from some of the greed, hatred and delusion which obscured my capacity to be sensitive and empathetic. This growth of compassion…
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…a Brahmin. Dhammapada 399 A wise person, Understanding the Dharma, By insight, free of longing And free of desire Is calm as a still pool. Iti 92 Obtaining praise is a trifling thing, And…
…to make compassion a more central part of our lives. As compassion grows, our self-centeredness and clinging decrease, and liberation becomes easier. As we become freer, compassion becomes more readily available. To let compassion and liberation support each other is…
…refer to those who have attained the goal of practice by using words that are common in other, probably later, Buddhist texts. For example, the terms arahant, Stream-Enterer, Once Returner, and Non-Returner are absent. In that rebirth has no role…
…completely through the doors.’ The instruction seemed so empty and meaningless the first time I heard it. Now it seemed monumental. Still, I could not manage to get myself to pass through the front gate. “Inside my head, a voice…
…was quite a blessing to be able to be part of this cycle of life. (Silence.) So, do you have any questions about this foundation? (Silence.) As I go through these, please feel free, if anything comes up that you…
…we get freer and freer, we let go of them one at a time, but the ninth one, which comes really late in the process of getting free, is conceit. Conceit is thinking that I’m better than somebody else, or…
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…English as raga does in Pali, the ancient Buddhist language. If passion is understood to include any strongly motivating emotions, then being free of passion suggests an emotionally subdued or neutral person, incapable of love. If passion refers instead to…
…is. He focused mostly on how one becomes free and what one becomes free from or what one no longer experiences. Perhaps freedom cannot be described as any particular experience. It is like two people who are lost in the…
…of what is happening. For example, when breathing, his instructions are to know when one is breathing a short breath and when one is breathing a long breath. In addition, he teaches the practitioner to recognize mental states that are…
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…to walk. When we are free, there is nowhere we have to go to find freedom. When we live from our freedom, the eight factors are no longer practices; amazingly, they become the natural expression of liberation. The Eightfold Path…
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…the physical elemental experience of the physical body, knowing just the coming and going nature of the body in a very general sense of the word he called “clear comprehension”. When you’re walking, know that you’re walking; when you’re coming…