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Equanimity Of Doctor, Hunter, Warrior
There are three types of equanimity. First is the equanimity that realizes how even though you may have goodwill for all beings and...
Learning Not to Be Afraid of Things That Are Real
Recently I've been looking through a field guide on nature observation. The author, when he was a child, was trained by an old Native...
Stay With The Breath
Put aside your old ways of using your eyes and ears and nose, tongue, body, and mind to focus on issues outside there in the world, to...
On Perfection and Priority
Determination seems to underlie all the perfections [of the mind]. There are four aspects to determination. You use...
Dignity of Restraint
A word that tends to disappear from common vocabulary is restraint: foregoing certain pleasures, not because we have to, but because they...
Reality Poses No Danger
Things that are real pose no danger to the mind. The real dangers in the mind are our delusions, the things we make up, the things we use...
Deciding What You Want to Keep
Look at your life in the same way you’d look through an attic, deciding what you’re going to keep, what you’re going to...
Beyond Being Present
All that past and all that future weigh down this one little moment here in the present: No wonder the present buckles under the weight....
No Mistake is Fatal
Our minds are pretty chaotic systems, which is why following the middle way is so difficult. It's so easy for a chaotic system to get...