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Henepola Gunaratana _ Beyond Mindfulness in Plain
When you finally overcome the five hindrances, you experience a great relief. This relief slowly increases until it culminates in piti, joy. This joy is purely internal. It does not arise dependent on worldly or household pleasure. Nothing outside you causes it. It arises through renouncing outward pleasure.
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Henepola Gunaratana _ Mindfulness in Plain English
Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.
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Henepola Gunaratana _ The Four Foundations of
We inhale and experience pleasure and then tension. We exhale and experience release but also anxiety. But even this pattern has much to teach us. When we experience tension, we remind ourselves not to be disappointed. When we experience pleasure, we remember not to attach to it.
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Henepola Gunaratana _ Mindfulness in Plain English
What you are now is the result of what you were. What you will be tomorrow will be the result of what you are now. The consequences of an evil mind will follow you like the cart follows the ox that pulls it. The consequences of a purified mind will follow you like your own shadow. No one can do more for you than your own purified mind - no parent, no relative, no friend, no one. A well-disciplined mind brings happiness.
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Henepola Gunaratana _ Mindfulness in Plain English
We categorize experiences. We try to stick each perception, every mental change in this endless flow, into one of three mental pigeon holes: it is good, bad, or neutral. Then, according to which box we stick it in, we perceive with a set of fixed habitual mental responses.
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Henepola Gunaratana _ The Four Foundations of
Meditation on the breath is not a breathing exercise. We are simply using the breath as a point of focus to cultivate mindfulness.
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Henepola Gunaratana _ Mindfulness in Plain English
All you should notice in all these occurrences is the impermanent, unsatisfactory, and selfless nature of all your experiences whether mental or physical.
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Henepola Gunaratana _ The Four Foundations of
When we focus on the breath, we become mindful of the universal nature of all beings.
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Henepola Gunaratana _ The Four Foundations of
Always remember: becoming mindful of losing our mindfulness is mindfulness.
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Henepola Gunaratana _ Meditation on Perception: Ten
Below the threshold of conscious awareness, ignorance infiltrates our perceptions, and from there spreads to our thoughts and views, resulting in distorted modes of understanding
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Henepola Gunaratana _ Mindfulness in Plain English
This goal has five elements to it: purification of mind, overcoming sorrow and lamentation, overcoming pain and grief, treading the right path leading to attainment of eternal peace, and attaining happiness by following that path."
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Henepola Gunaratana _ The Four Foundations of
The roots of suffering are within us. And the method for eliminating suffering is within us as well.
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